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The aged made the sign of the cross, and mumbled over a short prayer for the repose of his soul, while the more youthful indulged in half-breathed ejaculations of pity and concern that so fine and interesting a man should be doomed to so dreadful a fate.
Yet the tone in which the stranger spoke had nothing of the soft half-breathed voice proper to the seducer who solicits an assignation; it was bold, fierce, and imperative, and had less of love in it than of menace and intimidation. The suggestions of superstition seemed more plausible, had Butler's mind been very accessible to them.
"Ay, Andrew, but only by one fate;" and she looked upwards. Her faithful followers could not but notice that there was no eager assurance that no ill was intended her, such as they had often heard from Shrewsbury and Sadler. Cicely looked at Humfrey with widely-opened eyes, and the half-breathed question, "What does it mean?"
And shall Philander not command his own you must ah cruel then a soft struggle followed, with half-breathed words, with sighs and trembling hearts, and now and then 'Ah cruel and unreasonable' was softly said on both sides; thus strove, thus argued till both lay panting in each other's arms, not with the toil, but rapture; I need not say what followed after this what tender showers of strange endearing mixtures 'twixt joy and shame, 'twixt love and new surprise, and ever when I dried your eyes with kisses, unable to repeat any other language than 'Oh my Sylvia!
Yet the tone in which the stranger spoke had nothing of the soft half-breathed voice proper to the seducer who solicits an assignation; it was bold, fierce, and imperative, and had less of love in it than of menace and intimidation. The suggestions of superstition seemed more plausible, had Butler's mind been very accessible to them.
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