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Updated: June 13, 2025
Instead, the two set off on a twenty-mile wildgoose chase, with worried faces and fast-beating hearts. It did not occur to either of them to stay at home; or to send someone else on the long, frosty drive in search of the missing dog. Lad had watched the preparations for departure with increasing worry. Also, the abnormally sensitive old fellow was wretchedly unhappy.
"Is that a threat?" she asked. "You are careless of your words." "You can call it what you like, I don't care. You may scorn me now, but my turn will come." Waiting to hear no more, Nell left him, hurried into the house and closed the door. She partly expected him to follow her, so she stood for a while in the middle of the kitchen listening with fast-beating heart.
The silence was still undisturbed, they waited with fast-beating pulse for the long rows of onward, sweeping grey.... Dawn! And with it orders to move forward to Doulieu itself and there fill in the gap. Almost into the objective before they saw him.
"My sister sister Maggie," she repeated; and at the sound of that name her fast-beating heart grew still, for they seemed very sweet to her, those words "my sister," thrilling her with a new and strange emotion, and awakening within her a germ of the deep, undying love she was yet to feel for her who had traced those words and asked to be her sister.
"Beautiful singing!" she said, without looking at me After a considerable pause I said, awkwardly, "You know, Mrs. Levinsky, I dreamed of you last night!" "Did you?" "Aren't you interested to know something more about it?" "I dreamed of telling you that you are a good-looking lady," I pursued, with fast-beating heart "What has got into that fellow?" she asked of the kerosene-stove.
He felt there was some reason for her bent head and unusual silence, but with fatherly solicitude forebore to question her farther. A peculiar noise outside startled them. "What's that?" exclaimed Constance. "The wind," replied her father, "or else a prowling dog." When, however, the pounding upon the door began both sprang to their feet, and with fast-beating hearts crossed the room.
He presented his credentials, transacted his business, and then, with a fast-beating heart, walked he could not have sat in a taxi, though it should exceed the speed limit to the Buildings. So great was the emotion that assailed him as he stepped into the cool shadow of the stone passage, that he actually trembled.
And it was with a fast-beating heart and tremulous breath that he blew his spark to a larger one, then laid on his shredded strips of bark and blew again, and so at last, with a great up-welling triumph in his soul, beheld the flicker of a flame once more. Exhausted, he carefully fed that precious fire, while the girl clapped her hands with joy.
So had he served, yet soon, but here her guest had suddenly flushed and paused as though he spoke too hastily or of what he should not. To all of it the princess listened with fast-beating heart and a desire, ever growing, to make herself a place in this splendid stranger's world. Was not she then, also, the daughter of a king?
In the solitude of the cubicle she vowed to herself that the day should come, and that speedily, when she would be estimated at her right value. She stood in the damp and cold gazing up at the Record Wall, and renewed the vow with fast-beating heart.
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