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His answer was a sharp half-cry, half-gasp of astonishment, and the loud breathing became quite a pant, like that of an excited dog. "Here yes it is all right," came in rather a high-pitched voice, the accents being those of one not fully accustomed to the English language.
But she, as soon as he turned his face her way, glided up to him, with a little half-sigh, half-cry of joy, and taking him round the neck, kissed him deliciously, while every eye at the table met every other eye in turn. One or two of the men rose; for the lady's beauty was as worthy of homage as her appearing was marvelous. Mrs.
At sight of him she sprang up with a half-cry; the face seemed to have lost all its fresh colour, its look of sun and air; the eyes were sunk; the lips and chin lined and drawn. It was like a face from which the youth had suddenly been struck out. 'Robert! but her question died on her lips.
In accordance with Bivens's instructions the cashier opened the bronze doors and squeezed through, admitting Stuart and two detectives. At the sight of the cashier a thrill of horror swept the crowd half-groan, half-sigh, half-cry, inarticulate, inhuman, beastly in its grovelling fear. "Great God!" "They're going to suspend!" "It's all over!"
Then he gave a little half-cry, half-gasp; and from the look on his face the woman saw that he realized what was missing. He peered at her, with alert and narrow eyes, for a full minute of unbroken silence. Then, with a little movement of finality, he turned away and put down the lamp. "I regret it, but I must ask you for this this document, without equivocation and without delay."
But why this anger; why this mad gasping after breath and the half-growl, half-cry, with which he faced the night and the quiet of a street which to his glance, passing as it did over our heads, must have appeared altogether deserted?
"Do you think that was a very nice thing to say?" "I wasn't trying to be nice." Then after a pause: "When do you want to go?" Bernice drew in her breath sharply. "Oh!" It was a little half-cry. Marjorie looked up in surprise. "Didn't you say you were going?" "Yes, but " "Oh, you were only bluffing!" They stared at each other across the breakfast-table for a moment.
Then I heard a sound as of his chair being pulled up to his desk, followed by a brief silence. Then, all of a sudden, I heard another sound, half-cry, half-groan, and a sort of dull thud, as if something had fallen. A moment later, as I was wondering what had happened, and what to do, I heard the door which opens into the corridor close gently.
At sight of him she sprang up with a half-cry; the face seemed to have lost all its fresh color, its look of sure and air: the eyes were sunk; the lips and chin lined and drawn. It was like a face from which the youth had suddenly been struck out. 'Robert! but her question died on her lips.
"You must take my arm," I said, "and I will help you to the vicarage." "I will go home," she answered. "Lean on me now, at least; for you must get somewhere." "What does it matter?" she said, in such a tone of despair, that it went to my very heart. A wild half-cry, half-sob followed, and then she took my arm, and said nothing more.
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