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She gazed after the girl who left her, and into her eyes came a look which one must have called strangely unmaternal a look not tender, but hard, calculating, cold. "She is pretty," she murmured to herself half-aloud. "She is going to be very pretty the prettiest of the family in generations, perhaps. Well-handled, that girl could marry anybody.
What economy of time, what a pronounced deliverance from the aversion which food gives those who lack appetite! What a complete riddance from the disgust induced by food forcibly eaten! What an energetic protestation against the vile sin of gluttony, what a positive insult hurled at old nature whose monotonous demands would thus be avoided." And he continued, talking to himself half-aloud.
Teresa seated herself at the end of the table between Louis and me, and with her head in her hand commenced to read Teresa was not very well-educated and she read the letter very slowly and half-aloud. "Who wrote this?" was her first question. "The Pastor of the village," replied my father. "A minister!" exclaimed Teresa.
At one of these photographs she looked twice or thrice as she darned, and smiled friendlily. "I'd like to know where Lee is just this minute," she said, half-aloud. If you had been privileged to view the photograph thus flattered, you would have thought at the first glance that you saw the picture of a many-petalled white flower, blown through the air by a storm.
Ah, no, the longing it is for redemption! Oh, might redemption be my portion through such an angel as she is!" And she speaks, to herself, half-aloud: "Have I sunk into a wonderful dream? Is this which I see an illusion? Or have I until this moment lived in a world of dream, and is this the day of awakening? He stands before me, his features stamped with sorrow.
They raised their voices in the eagerness of their talk, from a whisper so as to be heard quite across the table, above the hum and buzz of above thirty others, who were learning their lessons half-aloud. At last Hugh was startled by hearing the words "Prater," "Prater the second." He was silent instantly, to Holt's great wonder.
She put on the serious judicial air of an authentic adult woman, and frowned at the chemist. When, in Preston Street, she was reluctantly approaching the house, she saw a cab, coming downwards in the opposite direction, stop at No. 59. "That must be Florrie!" she said, half-aloud.
Ah! you are happy, you who belong to the people! I see plainly that I must pay this man without delay, and it is frightfully sad for me, for I have nothing, and am forced to make such sacrifices for the sake of my grandchild!" This statement surprised the magistrate so strongly that involuntarily he repeated half-aloud, "Sacrifices?" "Certainly!" resumed Madame d'Arlange.
No one saw her as the hob-nailed shoes trooped out of church, and soon she was entirely alone, kneeling still in her hiding-place, and whispering half-aloud the omitted morning prayer, whose heartfelt signification had, she felt, been neglected for a long, long time. Since when?
His manner was bustling, impatient, and had it not been ludicrous, would certainly be considered as insolent to every one about him, for he stared each person abruptly in the face, and mumbled some broken expressions of his opinion of them half-aloud in German.
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