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Updated: June 13, 2025
Moreover, at night, with what feverish transport he watched the returns of the election as they reached the Palais de Justice, black with the crowd, and filled with uproar! With what a fearfully fast-beating heart he saw the rapidly swelling number of ballots cast for him!
She liked the clean kitchen, all fresh white woodwork, tiles, and nickelplate, and she liked the big closets and the gas- log. She had worried herself almost sick with fear that she would not get this wonderful place, and finally paid twenty-five dollars for the first month's rent with a fast-beating heart. She had the centre floor. From her windows she looked down at the "Park."
If people want to think I am a butterfly, why, let them think so! My friend Miss Hawkes says that I have two natures but I don't know about that!" She looked up at him to find his eyes fixed steadily upon her, and flushed happily, with a fast-beating heart. "With one of those natures I have nothing to do," Royal said. "But the other I claim as my friend. Come, how about it?
And Lily went to sleep in his lap, waiting. The moon came up, and Conway wrapped Lily in a shawl, but still held her in his arms. And as he sat holding her and waiting with a fast-beating heart for the old nurse, all his wasted life passed before him. He saw himself as he had not for years his life a failure, his fortune gone.
But Montriveau's lurid face was turned upon her; she could not choose but wait with a fast-beating heart and eyes fixed in a stare. However curious she felt, the heat in Armand's words interested her even more than the crackling of the mysterious flames.
I was nothing loath to take them at their word, so I let them go off in their four-in-hand coach, a big and bustling party, while with a fast-beating heart I made ready to spend the day with Martin, having, as I thought, so much and such serious things to say to him.
She then took up her position in a dark corner, where with fast-beating heart she waited to hear what might take place in the adjoining room. In a few minutes the slashers arrived. Jean could hear them quite distinctly, and her heart sank within her as she listened to their laughter and rough talk.
He has never given the least sign that he cares for me more than if I were an ordinary acquaintance. But he is a gentleman both in word and action." For a few minutes Jim Weston stood lost in thought. It seemed to Glen as if he would never speak. The silence of the room was so intense that she was sure her fast-beating heart could be distinctly heard.
He had sent a telegram to his mother the day before, telling her of the time he expected to arrive in Brunford, and presently when the train drew into the station he looked out of the window eagerly expectant, and with fast-beating heart. Yes, there his father and mother were, waiting for him. But what was the meaning of the crowd?
I followed her with fast-beating heart. I knew that her family was "modern," that her children spoke Russian and "behaved like Gentiles," that there was a grown young woman among them and that her name was Matilda The case of this young woman had been the talk of the town the year before.
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