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Faith grasped her hand, while the tears sprang to her eyes. "There is nothing to forgive, dear Miss Jones," she said, gently. "We have been sisters from the first, only you did not understand it; but tell me, is it through Miss Fairbanks that you feel so differently?" "Partly through her and partly through Mag Brady," was the honest answer.

"Accepted," said the count, as he stretched out his hand affectionately toward the young man, who grasped it without hesitation. "To-day a month," he continued, "I shall await you on the island of Monte-Cristo." With these words Monte-Cristo left his friend. Maximilian remained true to his word.

I blushed involuntarily with the conviction of the base motive which had brought me. She immediately grasped my arm, drew me to the contemplation of those pictures which had more particularly pleased herself, absolutely seeming to forget that there was a third person in the room.

Her correspondence had, it is true, been with a Margaret C. Stewart, whom she assumed to be Mr. Stewart's wife or some relative. Intuitively Peggy grasped the situation, but kept a perfectly sober face. "I am very glad to come," said her guest, and added: "This is my niece, Polly Howland." "It's nice to see and know you. I don't see many girls of my own age.

"These," said the Ballawhaine, "I bring to bear for Ross, that he may distance all competitors. Do you read me now?" "Read you, Peter?" said Auntie Nan. The Ballawhaine fixed his hollow eye upon her, and said, "What do you ask me to do? You come here and ask me to provide, prepare, and equip a rival to my own son." Auntie Nan had grasped his meaning at last.

I chid them, and called to them, but even the fiercest would not follow me. Then, thought I, I must show you the way to set to work; so I grasped my sword firmly, I set my torch on the ground close beside me, and I let the gates fly open without further delay. For I well knew that it would be no easy matter for any one to come in against my will.

He grasped the proffered hand and wrung it, but was afraid to say a word, for a big lump had come into his throat. A moment later he was bustling busily about the cabin collecting his luggage. His heart was singing merrily.

Old Hodson, to give an instance of his method, would not even fatten a pig, because it cost a trifle of ready money for 'toppings, or meal, and nothing on earth could induce him to part with a coin that he had once grasped. The same system was carried on throughout the farm. The one he then occupied was of small extent, and he did a very large proportion of the work himself.

Uncle Jolyon!" and a real throb of pleasure went through him. That meant one or two poor creatures helped a little, and it meant that she would come again. He put his hand in at the window and grasped hers once more. The carriage rolled away. He stood looking at the moon and the shadows of the trees, and thought: 'A sweet night! She...! Two days of rain, and summer set in bland and sunny.

He advanced his own, slow, stealthy, tremulous in faithful reproduction, the tips of two fingers and the thumb pressed together and hovering above the glass for an instant then the swift jerk back, after the deed. "Like that," he repeated growing excited. "From behind this." He grasped the curtain and glaring at the silent Anthony flung it back disclosing the forepart of the saloon.