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Could it be that my goddess was so far from my ideal that, after all, what had occurred needed no explanation? I would not admit such a possibility, and yet her next words seemed to confirm it. "When I first came here," she mused reflectively and only half-aloud, "you stayed outside for an hour, and then you disappeared. Of course you were a prisoner, but to-day you had the opportunity to see us.
When she came to herself a little, she said over and over, half-aloud, that everything was just the same as it had always been, and that to her at least nothing had happened; but that declaration, though made with vehemence, did not alter matters. The world altogether had sustained a change. The light that was in it was darkened, and the heart stilled.
"Horrible!" he muttered, half-aloud, as he shrank away with a shudder. "What's horrible?" said the familiar voice of the American behind him; "being chaffed by the skipper? Don't be so thin-skinned." "Oh, it wasn't that," said Brace frankly. "I was slightly annoyed for the moment, but it was only a mistake." "Of course, and it's better to be too particular than not particular enough.
Well, you can both calm yourselves, his excellency her husband, has already secured the prize, and he'll never change her into a creature of warmth and light with those tiresome diplomatic speeches of his but the man is happy; he has had no end of good luck." "Call no man happy until his death," said Hartmut, half-aloud. "A very wise remark, only not quite original," answered Egon.
And, what was more, I knew that he had the stern courage to use it if put to the test, in spite of his weakness. "And if he does use it," I thought, "it could only be against Jarette." "If he does," I said half-aloud, "what a change in the state of affairs it would produce!" "What yer talking about, Mr Dale?" said Dumlow, who was nearest to me of those forward; "not asleep, are you?"
I aim to stay here and go wherever I takes the notion. I aim to be as peaceable as I'm suffered to be and as warlike as I has to be. "I wonders, now," mused Rowlett, half-aloud, "who that damn craven mout be?" Suddenly his swarthy face brightened with an idea and he volunteered: "Let me hev thet thar paper.
It was not the firelight only that gave a strange glow to his dark eyes they were unnaturally luminous, as the eyes of madmen sometimes are, and full of a painful restlessness. The old, dreamy, sensuous languor was seldom seen in their shadowy depths. "I will win her in spite of herself," he went on, muttering the words half-aloud: "I will make her love me whether she will or no.
"That's your punishment," she said, half-aloud, "for running about so last night, and wanting to call upon strangers, even bad people, to help you!" She beat her disfigured face as if to chastise herself, and then tied a cloth around it tightly and went about her work. When the mistress saw her, she wanted to put her to bed again at once.
Not until afterwards did Bansemer recall that in the general excitement it was the boy who dragged him along to the spot. And in spite of the solemnity of the scene, there was something in his manner of delivering the insult that amused rather than angered the American. "Plucky little devil!" he said, half-aloud.
It is nothing serious, I assure madame. The doctor says that if he wears blue spectacles for few months he will be all right." "Oh, he wears blue spectacles, does he?" "Yes, madame, he must. Ze eye is inflamed and cannot stand ze strong light." "Poor Kenneth!" she murmured, half-aloud. "I shall hardly know him in blue spectacles."
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