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He lifted the lamp suddenly, still looking in the traveller's face, still muttering in the same half-absent tone, "Not Joseph Wilmot!" and brought the light on a level with the other man's eyes.
As Rachel's half-absent eyes passed over the group in the brilliantly lighted drawing-room her heart reared, without warning, and fell back upon her. She had only just sufficient presence of mind to prevent her hand pressing itself against her heart. He was there; he was before her the man whom she had loved with passion for four years, and who had tortured her. Mr.
Malcolm assented in a half-absent way, looking at the view before him, and seemingly enjoying it. "People call this county ugly," said he, "and perhaps it is; but whether I am used to it or no, I always am pleased with it. The lights are always new; and thus the landscape, if it deserves the name, is always presented in a new dress.
"It was horrid in bed to-night," she said in a half-embarrassed yet half-absent way. "I got thinking about about all sorts of things, and I was frightened." The change in her mood sealed my lips. "I hope mother hasn't noticed that my room's empty. No, of course not; she must be in bed long ago. Will you take me back to my room, Augustin?" "Yes," said I.
She did most of the talking, her mother listening with a half-absent air, as she picked up fragments of red-hot wood ember with the tongs, and piled them upon the brands. But the number of speeches that passed was very small in proportion to the meanings exchanged. Long experience together often enabled them to see the course of thought in each other's minds without a word being spoken.
Helen listened at first with a half-absent air, but presently grew more attentive, and when the catastrophe came sat erect, quite absorbed in the interest of this glimpse behind the curtain. Charmed with her success, Christie branched off right and left, stimulated by questions, led on by suggestive incidents, and generously supplied by memory.
"I wonder what takes him off to town, post-haste, every day?" "Business, I suppose," was the half-absent remark. "Business! What kind of business, I'd like to know?" "Edward has not informed me as to that," quietly answered Mrs. Markland. "Indeed!" a little querulously. "Why don't you ask him?" "I am not over-anxious on the subject.
Edith, the long and short of the matter is this: I shall break my heart and die if he doesn't make me Lady Catheron." A faint, half-absent smile no other reply from Miss Darrell. In the handsome reception-room of the Stuart mansion, the two girls sat. It was half-past three in the afternoon, of the day succeeding the ball.
Baske, and he approached whilst she was still intent on the frescoes. The pausing of his footstep close to her caused her to put down the glass and regard him. Mallard noticed the sudden change from cold remoteness of countenance to pleased recognition. The brightening in her eyes was only for a moment; then she smiled in her usual half-absent way, and received him formally.
But the tall d'Auvray bespoke him. "M. de Lorraine! Any news?" He started and turned to us in half-absent surprise, as if he had not known of our presence nor, indeed, quite realized it now. He was both pale and rumpled, like one who has not closed an eye all night. "Any news here?" he made Norman answer. "No, monsieur, unless his Grace has information. We have heard nothing." "And the woman?"
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