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She had not spared her words, her entreaties. She had gotten bravely over her fears of approaching her father. But now it seemed to her that there was nothing left to say. She could still pray, and it was with a half-despairing cry that she fell on her knees, realizing in her very soul that only the power of God could convert her father.
In a confused way she felt that the terrible events of the night and her own heart had overpowered her; and, with a half-despairing recklessness, she merely lived from moment to moment. The earthquake had ceased to have personal terrors for Bodine. He had faced death too often. Nevertheless a great fear oppressed him as he looked down upon the girl he loved.
Benton rose and paced the deck in deep reflection. At last he halted and spread his hands in a gesture half-despairing. "My God!" he said in a low voice. "The anxiety will drive me mad! You saw their methods. An entire cortége was to be blown into the air just to kill Karyl. Next time, what will they attempt?" He broke off with a shudder. "I have seen the Queen," said Blanco slowly.
C'est vous que Marie a crue voir! Que venez-vous faire ici, Armand de Fontonelles? Repondez!" Alas, not a word was comprehensible to Dick; nor could he think of a word to say in reply. He made an uncouth, half-irritated, half-despairing gesture towards the wood he had quitted, as if to indicate his helpless horse, but he knew it was meaningless to the frightened yet exalted girl before him.
Woffington strained her to her bosom, and two great hearts, whose grandeur the world, worshiper of charlatans, never discovered, had found each other out and beat against each other. A great heart is as quick to find another out as the world is slow. Mrs. Woffington burst into a passion of tears and clasped Mabel tighter and tighter in a half-despairing way.
She wanted to give thanks that Frank had become so wholly and avowedly hers, and for that deep intense affection that had gone on, unfed, uncherished, for years; but the overflow of delight was checked with foreboding there was the instinctive terror of a basilisk eye gazing into her paradise of joy the thanksgiving ran into a half-despairing deprecation.
Wet through and shivering, I sat still, now listening amidst the noise of the hurricane and the creaking of the cordage for any footstep to approach, and now relapsing back into half-despairing dread that my heated brain alone had conjured up the scene of the day before. Such were my dreary reflections when a loud crash aboard the schooner told me that some old spar had given way.
As I left him, he called me back to tell me, "I will take care and pay your undertaker;" for he certainly believed I should never return alive. I ran now, half-despairing, to Baron Lopresti, who gave me fifty ducats and a pair of pistols, provided with which I cheerfully repaired to the field of battle. Here I found half a dozen officers of the garrison.
He had not received any letter from Paulina, fond as she had been of writing to him long, half-despairing letters, full of complaint against destiny, and breathing in every line that hopeless love which the beautiful Austrian woman had so long wasted on the egotist and coward, whose baseness she had half suspected even while she still clung to him.
Wolfe's eyes answered Mitchell, not the Doctor. "Oh-h! But what a mistake you have made, my fine fellow! You have given no sign of starvation to the body. It is strong, terribly strong. It has the mad, half-despairing gesture of drowning." Wolfe stammered, glanced appealingly at Mitchell, who saw the soul of the thing, he knew.
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