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The servant still half-hesitating opened the door wider; and Beatrice and her maid went through into the little parlour on the right. As she passed in she heard voices from the other door. Mr. Morris's footsteps went down the passage. She had not very long to wait. There was the sound of a carriage driving up to the door presently, and her maid who sat in view of the window glanced out.
'There are demons on earth, answered the Nazarene, fearfully, 'as well as there are God and His Son in heaven; and since thou acknowledgest not the last, the first may have had power over thee. Glaucus did not reply, and there was a silence for some minutes. At length the Athenian said, in a changed, and soft, and half-hesitating voice.
A half-hesitating tap at the door prefaced the entrance of a woman the sort of woman who is seen in those streets by the score a tallish, thinnish woman, old before her time, perpetually harassed, always anxious, always looking as if she expected misfortune.
Yet still he kept her close beside him on the steps of the mighty Dom, half-longing, half-hesitating to take her further, and ever and anon assailed by a dreamy doubt as to whether she might not even now pass away from him suddenly and swiftly, as a mist fading into heaven, when all at once the sound of beating drums and martial trumpets struck loudly on the quiet morning air.
Once, half-hesitating, she looked into his eyes, and as though she had a confession to make, said quietly: "Thou art very brave, Ootah." This pleased him once she had said he had the heart of a woman. He had thrilled when she soothed him, and now he was half sorry that the injuries no longer needed attention. He loved Annadoah more deeply than ever, and his greatest concern was for her.
Hoyt so we must now call her betrayed surprise at this question, and was about answering "No," but checked herself and gave a half-hesitating "Yes," adding the question, "What about her?" Before Mrs. Dinneford could reply, however, Mrs. Hoyt took hold of her arm and said, "Come up to my room. Walls have ears sometimes, and I will not answer for these." Mrs.
Frida said, half-hesitating: for she hardly knew whether it was not wicked to say so. "Why, of course they do," Bertram answered confidently. "That's not matter of opinion now; it's matter of demonstration. The worst of them all in their present complicated state are the ones that concern marriage and the other hideous sex-taboos.
Morgan's reference, in his Bunker Hill position, to Franklin, that he is getting out of powder." The girl stood a moment, her slight figure framed in the doorway, while the company rose to greet her, with a half-hesitating, half-inquiring look in her bright face which I had seen in it a thousand times.
She came to it in her light, impetuous way. She halted on the threshold. "Jeff!" she said. "Come here!" She reached out her hands to him little, nervous hands full of purpose. She drew him close. She raised her lips to his. The mistletoe dangled above their heads. "Will you kiss me, Jeff?" she whispered. He stooped, half-hesitating. Her arms stole about his neck.
Kennedy had, in a half-hesitating manner, prepared to seat himself in that very place. As it was, Phineas and Mr. Kennedy were neighbours, but Phineas had the place of honour. "I suppose you will not speak during the debate?" said Lady Laura. "Who? I? Certainly not. In the first place, I could not get a hearing, and, in the next place, I should not think of commencing on such an occasion.
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