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You can hear the wreck drive down the channel a day's journey off." "I thought it a silent country. It's often so quiet it makes one half-afraid." Jim nodded. "Something forbidding in its quietness that's like a threat? Well, it wakes up and gets busy in a dramatic way now and then. If you want to live in the mountains, you've got to be watchful."
Do you want something to eat?" The wiry fingers tightened on his arm. "No, sir no, my lord not really. I often don't eat. I'm used to it." "But why the devil not?" demanded Saltash. "Didn't they feed you over there?" "Yes oh, yes. But I didn't want it. I was too miserable." The blue eyes blinked rapidly under his look as if half-afraid of him.
Within, were splendid altars and the appealing charms of incense, fine vestures and fine music; while from the belfreys, bells sweet and resonant called to the savages, who paused spell-bound and half-afraid to listen. Certainly these priests had to fight as well as to pray. The Indians did not suffer them to take possession of their Eden without passionate and practical protest.
"Do you mean to say that he is cad enough to hold you against your will?" Still she hesitated, half-afraid to speak openly. He leant nearer; he took her hand. "My dear child," he said, "don't for Heaven's sake give in to such tyranny as that, and be made miserable for the rest of your life.
"Do YOU, rather, tell me," I said, "what is going on here? Why do you seem half-afraid of me? I can see for myself what is wrong. You are the step-daughter of a ruined and insensate man who is smitten with love for this devil of a Blanche. And there is this Frenchman, too, with his mysterious influence over you. Yet, you actually ask me such a question!
They peered at him in the gray light, half-afraid of the tall apparition. "How could you kill a great big dog like Jack?" They asked wonderingly. In answer he held out his great hands and his huge corded arms, red with blood up to the elbow. "I heard him worrying another sheep and I I just killed him." One of the children now cried out: "But I shut Jackie up in the woodshed last night!"
"No wonder," quoth John Mortimer; "but I have several jolly little boys and girls at home; they would soon cure him of that." Mrs. Peter Melcombe seemed pleased. She had taken a great fancy to the good-looking young widower; she remarked that Peter had never been used to playing with other children she was half-afraid he would get hurt; but as Mr. Mortimer was so kind she would risk it.
Everything presses in." She opened her eyes, bright and desperate. "What am I doing here, Mr. Morena?" He had put down his cup quietly, for he was really half-afraid of her. "Why did you come, Jane?" "Because I was afraid of some one. I was running away, Mr. Morena. There's some one that mustn't ever find me now, and to run away from him that was the business of my life.
The Gold Dust maverick stood, half-afraid, at the other side of the corral. She had not yet wholly conquered her dread of him. She did not, however, offer to fight as she had done that morning when Skinny entered the enclosure. The Ramblin' Kid spoke to the filly and, as she began to move shyly away, with one toss threw the loop over her head.
Peggy had waked before it was light, to feel her presents which lay beside her on her bed; and, by the time Majendie's sail had passed Fawlness Point, she was up and dressed, waiting for him. Anne had to break it to her gently that perhaps he would not be home in time for eight-o'clock breakfast. Then the child's mouth trembled, and Anne comforted her, half-smiling and half-afraid.
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