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Chichester turned away with a gesture of despair. "I give it up! I give it up!" she said, half-crying. "I should say so," agreed Alaric. "Such rubbish!" Peg shook her head the moment Mrs. Chichester turned her back, and the little red curls once more danced in front of her eyes. "I do everything I can, everything," complained Mrs. Chichester, "but you you " she broke off. "I don't understand you!
Suddenly Mr Openshaw turned to Ailsie, and said: 'What a little goosy somebody is with her dreams, wakening up poor, tired mother in the middle of the night, with a story of a man being in the room. 'Father! I'm sure I saw him, said Ailsie, half-crying. 'I don't want to make Norah angry; but I was not asleep, for all she says I was.
One night it was toward the close of the war I woke up out of a sodden lethargy, and found myself bound and gagged, and the air tainted with chloroform! I saw two men in the room, and one was saying to the other, in a hoarse whisper, 'I told her I would, if she made a noise, and as for the child The other man interrupted in a low, half-crying voice
Half-crying with disappointment, they accused their generals of favouritism! "They don't want the North Car'linians to git anything," they whined. "They wouldn't hev' stopped Hood's Texicans they'd hev' let THEM go on!"
His rude tone frightened me into half-crying; but for all that, as he said, I had it to do. If perjury it is, which will God punish: me, who was unwilling to commit the crime, or the man who forced me to it? Friday, June 26th. O praise the Lord, O my soul! Here is good news enough to make me happy for a month! Brother is so good about that!
"But I don't see him." The girls looked toward where they had left their escort setting the "table" on the grass. They had a glimpse of the white cloth, and the various things upon it, but Tom was not in sight. "Maybe maybe an alligator ate him!" said Grace. She was half-crying now. "Don't be silly!" directed Betty in a stern tone.
Lisbeth dared not venture beyond a vague phrase yet. "Contrairy, mother?" Adam said, looking up again in some anxiety. "What have I done? What dost mean?" "Why, thee't never look at nothin', nor think o' nothin', but thy figurin, an' thy work," said Lisbeth, half-crying. "An' dost think thee canst go on so all thy life, as if thee wast a man cut out o' timber?
"Mary Virginia!" said the boy lover to the girl sweetheart, "is it really so? I was really right to believe all along that you care?" "Laurence, Laurence!" she was half-crying. "Oh, Laurence, are you sure you care yet? You are sure, Laurence? You are sure? Because I I don't think I could stand things now if if I were mistaken "
"And you are the most exasperatingly dull man," Myra retorted, still half-laughing, half-crying. "Oh, Tony, my dear, take care of me and love me terribly if you want to keep me. Hold me fast and grapple me to you with hooks of steel, or you will lose me." She almost hurled herself into Tony's arms, buried her face in his shoulder, and burst into tears.
He was half-crying and cowed. "Curse the whole business!" he said. "But she had twenty thousand francs of my money." The Captain addressed to him a question somewhat odd under the circumstances. "On your honour as a gentleman, is that true?" he asked. "Yes, it's true," said Paul, with a glare of suspicion.
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