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But the doctor's perplexed, troubled countenance, as he ordered her carried into another apartment, and the ghastliness of her face when it was upturned to the light, suggested to every one what proved to be true. Even to her obscured perceptions, the consciousness that her son was dead came with a terrible vividness so terrible, that it extinguished her life.
Chilled with horror, he looked again, and saw that the priest was smiling in scorn. He would have fled into the house, but the ghost stretched forth its withered arm, and, clutching the back of his neck, scowled at him with a vindictive glare and a hideous ghastliness of mien so unspeakably awful that any ordinary man would have swooned with fear.
'Is the breath of life yet in you? I cried out not doubting, however, that whoever it was, death had already released her from her misery and at the same time laid my hand upon her shoulder. At which she started, and lifting up her head, the very ghastliness of death stamped upon every feature, she shrieked: 'I drown! I drown! Hassan, save me! and her head fell again upon her knees.
Sir Allan shrugged his shoulders, and turned up the lamp a little higher than it was. The faces of the two men were now distinctly visible to each other, and the contrast between them was rather startling. Sir Allan's was placid, courteous, and inquiring. Mr. Brown's was white almost to ghastliness, and his eyes were burning with a strange light. "I wish you'd sit down, my dear fellow!"
In her eyes there is a blind, dazed sort of horror on her face there is a ghastliness no words can describe. "Who is to tell Sir Victor?" the butler repeats. "It will kill him the horror of it. So pretty and so young so sweet and so good. Oh, how could they do it how could they do it!" She tries to speak once more it seems as though her white lips cannot shape the words.
If he have an eye for the moral he will detect it at once; if not, there is no importunate author to force it upon him. In either case he will find the story an absorbing one. 'It has all the solemn ghastliness of truth, said Lord Rosebery, writing to the novelist's widow in 1884. He confessed that the book had a fascination for him.
He neither spoke nor looked to either side of him, but walked onward in a stupor of grief that was evidently too deep for tears for he shed none, his face was pale even unto ghastliness, whilst at the same time there was a darkness over it, which evidently proceeded from the gloom of a broken down and hopeless heart.
In the small church on my last visit I saw the portrait of the Beguine Catherine Van Halter, the work of the painter I. Cossiers, and another picture by him representing the dead Christ on the knees of the Virgin surrounded by disciples. Cossiers seemed to revel in the ghastliness of the scene, but the workmanship was certainly of a very high order.
After a little, when she had turned to speak to Serafina, who sat beside her, the child woke with a start, and pushing back the mass of dishevelled hair revealed a sad little face, so thin that the cheek bones were painfully prominent, and pale to ghastliness.
My slow tread tolled like a passing-bell, and the mountainous ice lay vague and white around me, its sheeted ghastliness not less dreadfully silent than eternity itself. Presently, several of the dogs began barking together, left off, and began again. I said to myself; 'There is a bear about somewhere. And after some five minutes I saw I thought that I saw it.
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