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But I, desperate with fear, tore my clothes from my body and showed the cruel scars that marked it. "You are Englishmen," I cried to the sailors, "and will you deliver me to these foreign devils, who am of your blood? Look at their handiwork," and I pointed to the half-healed scars left by the red-hot pincers; "if you give me up, you send me back to more of this torment and to death by burning.
The thin, panting flanks, marked with half-healed scars and stained with sweat, the poor broken knees, the strained, suffering eyes ... "Are you ill, signorina?" the old priest asked kindly. "No, but the poor horses I cannot look. Who has won?" He rose to his feet. "The Oca!" he cried excitedly.
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.
Ah! these accidental resemblances are cruel things they tear open half-healed wounds, and cause them to bleed afresh. Fido met with an untimely end she was drowned one dark night in a cistern. I thought I had outlived that grief, but when I look at you " A stinging box on the ear, given with right good will, cut short the mournful reminiscence, and brought tears to Mr.
The Colonel's party, belonging to the class that is ready to send all its sons that can bag game or ride to hounds, to be food for powder themselves in any dispute made and provided, was sadly denuded of the young man element, and he himself was fretting with impatience at the medical verdict that had disqualified him for rejoining his regiment with a half-healed lung.
The expression of anxiety, however, which I had observed upon his face was very much more marked upon hers. Some great grief seemed to have cast its shadow over her features. As Lord Linchmere presented me she turned her face full upon me, and I was shocked to observe a half-healed scar extending for two inches over her right eyebrow.
"To Sacramento." The abrupt change in her manner startled him to a recollection of Susy, and he blushed. She bit her lips, and moved towards the window. "Then you saw her?" she said, turning suddenly towards him. The inquiry of her beautiful eyes was more imperative than her speech. Clarence recognized quickly what he thought was his cruel blunder in touching the half-healed wound of separation.
Its upper jaw and head was covered with lumps and scars of old wounds. Along the flank was a half-healed, jagged gash, too. "That old boy's collided with something," grumbled Tom Anderly in my ear. "I believe he's a rogue."
The Lady Beata hastily thrust him aside and opened the white robe at the throat, and Marcantonio started back; there were stripes of half-healed laceration on the tender flesh some fresh, as if but just raised by the lash. "Ay, my lord," Beata answered very low, to his quick, grieved question; "all that a daughter of the Church may do hath our lady added to her prayers for Venice.
One realized it with a shock when the bandaged creature began to shiver, and they shuffled off in response to the orders of civilized men. Very early in the morning I met Alan Breck, with a half-healed bullet-scrape across the bridge of his nose, and an Alpine cap over one ear. His people a few hundred years ago had been Scotch.
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