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She smiled piteously. "It wasn't a very brave thing to do, was it?" she faltered. "It was mean," he admitted. "It was worse than that. But, Beatrice," he went on, "I was missing you horribly. You did leave a big empty place when you went away. I am not going to excuse myself about Elizabeth. I lived through a time of the strangest, most marvelous emotions one could dream of.
It's after midnight now. How long would it take them to find out that between eight and midnight you had not only never been near your mother, but could not prove an alibi of any sort? If you told the truth it would sound absurd. No one in their sober senses would believe you." The Sparrow looked at her miserably. "My God!" he faltered. He wet his lips. "That's true."
Wherever you dwell, hereafter, all that is good and beautiful in life and character which the garden typifies will begin to take the place of thorns and thistles." "I hope so," she faltered, "but that involves bleeding hands, Mr. Van Berg. I am not cast in heroic mould. I am weak and wavering, and as a proof I am dwelling on the very subject that I had forbidden.
Is she going to faint? she lifted one hand to her eyes, and her fingers trembled an instant against the lowered lids. But as suddenly as she had faltered, she was forging on again, repeating like an echo of a thing heard in a dream 'Justice and chivalry!
As he uttered the words, Hilda Wade's hands trembled more than ever, and with a little scream she let the basin fall, breaking it into fragments. Sebastian's keen eyes had transfixed her in a second. "How did you manage to do that?" he asked, with quiet sarcasm, but in a tone full of meaning. "The basin was heavy," Hilda faltered. "My hands were trembling and it somehow slipped through them.
"But you led her to believe you would?" "I wasn't responsible for what she believed." "Now I'll tell you something," pursued the detective in a firm, subdued voice. "An hour before Julia Strong committed suicide she was in my office at Police Headquarters." Collins started as if jarred by a hateful sound. "I I don't believe it," he faltered.
Peters that I thank him, but that I have nothing for him to exploit, or with which to form a company to market." "Wha what!" faltered the visitor. "Do you mean to say you will not take advantage of his remarkable offer?" "That's just what I mean to say," replied Tom, with a smile. "You won't do business with Mr. Peters? You won't let him do you good?" "No," said Tom, quietly.
She came up to him and stood a moment, twisting the fingers of one hand within those of the other. "I want to see Stephen, please, Uncle Cal," she faltered. Caleb drew a deep and unsteady breath. "Steve isn't here, Barbara," he said as gently as he could. The child didn't understand. "Father sent me over to apologize," she explained slowly. "I'm to tell him that I'm sorry.
"I think it is possible I shall live in Delisleville," she whispered. His heart bounded as if it would burst his side. He knew what she meant in an instant, though he had never suspected it before. "Oh! Oh!" he groaned. "Oh, Delia! which which of them is it? It's De Courcy, I could swear. It's De Courcy!" "Yes," she faltered, "it is De Courcy." He drew his hand away and covered his face with it.
Well, THAT square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee the Fifth is mostly water the Sixth belongs to Humpty Dumpty But you make no remark? 'I I didn't know I had to make one just then, Alice faltered out.
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