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At that instant, a knock was heard at the door, and supposing that it was Henry returning for something he had forgotten, as he frequently did, Isabella flew to let him in. To her amazement, however, a strange woman stood in the door. "Who are you that comes here at this late hour?" demanded the half-frightened Isabella. Without making any reply, Mrs.
They applauded not only in the usual manner but even by shouts and whistling, and through it all was to be heard the steady thump, thump, thump of a stick on the floor from the middle of the room where Peter sat. Lilac looked round half-frightened at Mr Martin as the noise rose higher and higher, and made her way quickly to the steps which led from the platform.
He bade farewell to a tearful, half-frightened little Madelon at the door of the parlour, he saw it close upon her, and it was with quite a heavy heart that he turned away, leaving behind him the little girl who had occupied so large a share of his thoughts and anxieties during the last ten days.
The cloud of dust spread itself out through the air, as if it were alive, forming curious shapes that were for ever changing into others. "It makes letters! It makes words!" Bruno whispered, as he clung, half-frightened, to Sylvie. "Only I ca'n't make them out! Read them, Sylvie!" "I'll try," Sylvie gravely replied. "Wait a minute if only I could see that word "
Jones with him? she asked, red and white in turns. 'I said you wouldn't marry him, so it's all right; you need not go upsetting yourself, she replied, half-frightened at the effect her remark had had upon her elder sister. 'I do not want to hear anything more that you said.
A half-frightened expression comes into her eyes, and shrinking still farther away, she releases her hand from his grasp. "You are angry with me," says Stephen, anxiously, trying bravely not to betray the grief and pain her manner has caused him; "but hear me. I will be your true lover till my life's end; your will shall be my law. It will be my dearest privilege to be at your feet forever.
"What!" she exclaimed, in a half-frightened voice. "That is precisely the ejaculation that fell from my own lips at the time," said John. "Then I gave her a minute description of the old man, in all his ugliness. And then she administered my lesson to me." "Yes? What was it?" questioned Maria Dolores, her interest acute.
He stood anxiously looking down at her, wondering what his mother would do in his place, and feeling in every fibre a man's natural helplessness in the presence of a suffering woman. "What can I do for you?" he asked, as she at last opened her eyes, and gazed half-frightened at her strange surroundings. "Thank you, I believe I am quite comfortable, except except for the dreadful pain.
For his resolution had suddenly lifted a great weight from her shoulders, the dangerous meeting of husband and wife the next morning, and its results, whatever they might be, had been quietly averted. She felt, too, a half-frightened joy even in the constrained manner in which he had imparted his determination. That frankness which even she had sometimes found so crushing was gone.
"That was fanciful of you," she said. But she sent him a strange look of half-frightened suspicion. He did not see it. He was looking out to the garden. From the Nile rose the voices of the sailors singing their song. He listened to it for a moment. "What a strange time it's been since we first heard that song together, Ruby," he said. "Yes."
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