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She paused in her progress it might almost be called a triumphant one, for the other women's looks were eloquent of dismay and looked at Stafford with the slow, half-dreamy smile which had come into her face of late when she spoke to him. "Have you seen my father? Has he come down, Mr. Orme?" she asked. "No," said Stafford.
When the fever gradually abated, and consciousness returned to the countess, she lay in a state of half-dreamy exhaustion which precluded the power of thought or the stir of her high passions. It was manifest that she recognized those who moved about her bed, for she now and then addressed Bertha, Maurice, and even Madeleine by name.
He had only a vague general impression of her, of her slightness, vitality, youth, and half-dreamy excitement. "Why do you ask me?" "Giulia said to me this evening that she was sure the new servant had the evil eye." "Peppina?" "Yes, that is her name." "Have you seen her?" "No, not yet. It's odd, but I feel as if I would rather not." "Have you any reason for such a feeling?" "I don't think so.
She was a middle-aged woman, much younger than her husband with an ironic half-dreamy eye, and a native intelligence much superior to her surroundings. She was suffering from a chronic abscess in the neck, which had strange periodic swellings and subsidences, all of which were endlessly interesting to its possessor. Mrs.
Behold one of the helpers which the Lord has sent me in my Gospel labours on the shores of the Guadalquivir. I lived in the greatest retirement during the whole time that I passed at Seville, spending the greater part of each day in study, or in that half-dreamy state of inactivity which is the natural effect of the influence of a warm climate.
We will come in the gate together, we will walk in to the building together. I will have my way." Martin Cosgrave spoke of having his way in the impassioned voice of the fanatic, of his home-coming with his bride in the half-dreamy voice of the visionary. "Have your way, Martin, have your way," the woman said. "And," she added, rising, "I will be bringing up a few things to put into your house."
The effect of the light and shadow, which seemed to increase their height, was to make them mysterious and significant, so that Denham had no feeling of irritation with Katharine, but rather a half-dreamy acquiescence in the course of the world. Yes, she did very well to dream about but Sandys had suddenly begun to talk.
A flash of laughter broke over her face, and the low, gurgling, half-dreamy sound was pleasant to hear. She was evidently no more than a child to these bereft old people, and by them cherished as naught else on earth.
Emmanuel de Solis, rigidly brought up by his uncle, who kept him at his side as a mother keeps her daughter, was full of delicate sensibility, of half-dreamy innocence, those fleeting flowers of youth which bloom perennially in souls that are nourished on religious principles.
With a half-dreamy smile upon her beautiful firm mouth, she was looking at a green flashing ring she wore on the third finger of her left hand. And the sight of her so sent a sudden pang of remembrance leaping through the old man's heart. He forgot his spoiled pinch of snuff, and stepped over to her, and took the hand, and looked at the emerald ring with her in silence.
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