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Updated: May 17, 2025
"I was just groping my way it is indeed groping, is it not? to your sitting-room. WHERE is your sister? I want SO much to ask her if she will have tea with me this afternoon. I am expecting a few friends, and should be so glad if she would join us." "Ephie is practising, Mrs. Tully," said Johanna in her coolest tone. "And I cannot have her disturbed." "She is so very, very diligent," said Mrs.
There is little or nothing of psychology in Mackenzie's book, and yet, like other writers on voice-production, he appears now and then to be groping for it.
While groping along the sides of these cases, it occurred to me to raise my hand upward, and just ascertain how far the bale of linen projected over the empty cloth-case. To my astonishment it did not project at all!
Groping his way to the window he leaned out above an appalling silence. It endured only a moment. Then rose the terrible clamor of a mob in panic-stricken flight, above an insistent undertone of groans, sobs, and prayers. "I had to kill him," muttered Dr. Elliot's shaking voice at Hal's ear. "There was just the one chance before he could throw his bomb." Every light in the building had gone out.
Groping round in the ruins, he succeeded in finding his blanket, which he threw over his shoulders as a slight protection against the heavy rain, which continued falling all night. Oowikapun still lingered in his lonely forest retreat.
Next moment through the dim light they perceived the horseman wheel round, and gallop off towards the mouth of the ravine! Exclamations of disappointment, profane ejaculations, and wild oaths, echoed for some minutes through the vaulted cavern. The excited ruffians at length became more cool, and, groping about in the darkness, got hold of their horses, and led them out upon the ledge.
And waiting for no more I stumbled down the quarter-ladder; but even as I went, the haze seemed to close about me thicker than ever, and groping my way to the ship's side I sank across the bulwark and was miserably sick. This agony passing, I made my way below until I reached the orlop; but now feeling my sickness upon me again I crept away into a dark corner and cast me down there.
It was a paradise of love, to be sure; but one, too, of duty. Duty made it real. Work was there, and fulfilment of the purpose of life itself. And if his days hitherto had been useless, hers had in truth been barren. It was only of late, after a life-long groping, that she had discovered their barrenness. The right to happiness! Could she begin anew, and found it upon a rock? And was he the rock?
"Perhaps; although still another supposition is possible. Someone else may claim to be the heir." This was a new theory, and one not so unreasonable as it appeared at first thought. Still it was sufficiently improbable, so that I dismissed it without much consideration. She apparently read this in my face. "It is all groping in the dark until we learn more," she went on slowly.
"'I wish I might kiss your hand, was what I murmured, gazing at her white fingers groping over her tray. "'You may, she answered, and hell became heaven to me for a brief instant. Then I lifted myself and went obediently about my task. "But puppet though I was, I was not utterly without sympathy.
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