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But the man appeared not to hear; he was still on his knees. Tim faced the woods once more. He was about to mount his horse when he heard a step behind him. He turned sharply and faced Laura. "I couldn't rest. I came out this morning. I've seen everything," she said. "You didn't trust me," he said, heavily. "I never did anything else," she answered. He gazed half-fearfully into her eyes.
She felt very helpless in this battle with death, but her determination never left her. She ran to the door. Poor Garibaldi was still standing hitched to the stretcher. Lucia went to her and led her back to the door of the cottage. She looked half-fearfully, half-angrily at the town above her. "He shall not die!" she said between her teeth, and went back into the house.
It was a strange scene truly, and Prosper felt with exhilaration all its strangeness. This was no Darby and Joan fireside; a wizard with his enchanted leopardess, rather. He was half-afraid of Joan and of himself. "It's right beautiful," said Joan, "an' right strange to me. I never seen anything like it before. That" her eyes followed Wen Ho's departure half-fearfully "that man and all."
There was a little choke in his throat as he mingled with the careless, pleasure-loving throng, mostly wending their way now towards the Rooms or the Terrace. As he crossed the square towards the Hotel de Paris, his steps grew slower and slower. He looked at the building half-fearfully. Beautifully dressed women, men of every nationality, were passing in and out all the time.
The mason bent down and looked, half-curiously, half-fearfully, at the dead man. Then he glanced upward at the open door high above them in the walls. "It's a fearful drop, that, sir," he said. "And he came down with such violence. You're sure it's over with him?" "He died just as we came up," answered Bryce. "That movement we saw was the last effort involuntary, of course.
Then, indeed, the silence became weird, oppressive, uncanny; making one involuntarily shuffle nearer to one's neighbour and glance half-fearfully over one's shoulder. Then, after a slight interval, a faint, far-off signal chirp! chirp! would be heard, and in an instant the whole insect-world would burst into full chorus once more, and the air would fairly vibrate with sound.
I wish he would," and she began singing a low love-ditty half-unconsciously, half-fearfully, as she trudged homeward. An hour later, and a perfumed billet-doux bore to the widow's cottage the compliments of Captain George H. Marshall, U. S. A. He had, indeed, come to Melrose at last.
"But no, my story is too dull," she protested, and shrugged her shoulders, and disengaged herself half-fearfully, it seemed to her husband. "Even more insipid than your comedy," she added, with a not unkindly smile. "Do we drive this afternoon?" "In effect, yes!" cried the Duke. He paused and laughed a low and gentle laugh, pulsing with unutterable content. "Since this afternoon, madame "
Then she stepped to the mirror, and half-fearfully, half-curiously, parted with her fingers the braids of her blond hair above her little pink ear, until she came upon an ugly, half-healed scar. She gazed at this, moving her pretty head up and down to get a better light upon it, until the slight cast in her velvety eyes became very strongly marked indeed.
He met them in the Konigstrasse, as they stood on the Konigsmauer, Loulou looking half-fearfully down the narrow street. Paul looked very much astonished, and seemed as if he were not going to notice the pair of lovers, but Wilhelm nodded and asked him to join them.
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