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And then it was unendurable; he felt one of her arms softly encircling his neck. There was just one gentle pressure, and then the arm fell to her side, and her head sank weakly away from him. He laid her back tenderly on her hard bed. He sat up again, looking at her and listening. She rambled on in half-coherent speech.
Then, under a tree on the green, he indifferent to village gossip, she took his hand and told him not of his fortune alone. In half-coherent fashion she told him of the past of his life in the North. She then spoke of his future.
If you knew that, perhaps " he hesitated a moment; "but no, no, no!" and after muttering some half-coherent words, among which I could recognise the "Buenos noches, caballero!" the stranger rose up with the same mysterious air that had all along characterised him, and left me.
I muttered some half-coherent inquiries. "It was a coup d'eclair, Captain," said Raoul. Good heavens! We had been struck by lightning! Raoul, being in the advance, had escaped. The Frenchman soon left me and went to Clayley, who, with Chane and the hunter, lay close by all three, as I thought, dead.
Minta Hurd said eagerly that she would join the new straw-plaiting, and went on to throw out a number of hurried, half-coherent remarks about the state of the trade past and present, leaning meanwhile against the table and endlessly drying her hands on the towel she had taken up when her visitors came in. Her manner was often nervous and flighty in these days.
All the time, both men maintained a half-coherent diatribe, whose language waxed hotter and hotter and whose thunderbolts centered about the Master and his dog; particularly about Lad; and about the dire legal penalties which were to be inflicted on them.
But now I had to stand up myself and meet people. And oh, that was different! At first two or three women would approach, putting out their hands at an absurd height, and start to say: "How d' you " or "I'm so " And Aunt would make some excited, half-coherent remark and look at me, anxiously but proudly, and say my name. But they never heard her!
She was the white shadow of her former self; but her fragility had always seemed to Marcella more indomitable than anybody else's strength. Sobs began to rise in Marcella's throat. "And now," she said, in half-coherent despair, "do you know what you are doing? You are cutting yourself off from me refusing to have any real bond to me just when I want it most.
When the half-coherent enigmatical sentences, to which he listened at first with a perplexed surprise, began gradually to define themselves; when he found a woman roused and tragically beautiful between him and escape; when no determination on his part not to understand; when nothing he could say availed to protect her from her-self; when they were at last face to face with a confession and an appeal which were a disgrace to both then at last Elsmere paid 'in one minute glad life's arrears' the natural penalty of an optimism, a boundless faith in human nature, with which life, as we know it, is inconsistent.
They were less austere, less contemptuous, than they used to be: perhaps, indeed, it was only a momentary remission of his customary feelings. To my rapid and half-coherent questions, he replied, "I landed you need not know where. My commission requires secrecy, and you know I have personal reasons for wishing to pass through this city without notice.
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