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Updated: May 5, 2025
As he sat in the little summer-house with his head on the table, he suddenly heard an elastic step on the dry gravel. He started peevishly up and saw a lady walking briskly toward him: it was Miss Fountain. She saw him at the same instant. She hesitated a single half-moment; then, as escape was impossible, resumed her course. David went bashfully to meet her. "Good-morning, Mr.
Talk. Laughter. Animation. In another moment the two would have turned and fled, terrified. But in that half-moment of hesitation and bewilderment they were lost. A woman approached them hand outstretched. A tall, slim, friendly looking woman, low-voiced, silk-gowned, inquiring. "Good-evening!" she said, as if she had been haunting the halls in the hope of their coming. "I'm glad to see you.
Then a fall and hurrying footsteps, and then silence. Selwyn sprang to the window and opened it. "My God!" he said. His face was white. "What was that?" I was out of the door before Selwyn had left the window. Quickly he followed me, however, and on the front porch, where Mrs. Mundy was already standing, we stood for a half-moment, looking up and down the street.
Mary, being now between the two men, turned swiftly first to one, then to the other, and with woman's infallible eye knew her own flesh and blood in that half-moment. She uttered a cry of love and rapture that went through every heart that heard it; and she flung herself in a moment upon her father's bosom.
There was a half-moment of terrific suspense, then the beasts clambered by the seated figure, passing on each side and circled aimlessly about the yard their quest unended. They sniffed indifferently about the trouser legs of the men who sauntered indolently out of the door.
I don't wonder you're thrilly, Carmencita Bell!" For a half-moment breath came quiveringly from the parted lips, then again at the window and the stars beyond the little head nodded. "But I'll never wonder at things happening any more. I'll just wonder at there being so many nice people on this earth. All are not nice.
Knight's eyes met hers, and with supreme eloquence the glance of each told a long-concealed tale of emotion in that short half-moment. Moved by an impulse neither could resist, they ran together and into each other's arms. At the moment of embracing, Elfride's eyes involuntarily flashed towards the Puffin steamboat. It had doubled the point, and was no longer to be seen.
"It's going to be my Christmas present to myself getting rid of you. Couldn't anything give me as much pleasure as smashing you is going to give. Good-by " Raising her right foot, Carmencita held it poised for a half-moment over the hated hat, then with long-restrained energy she brought it down on the steeple-crown and crushed it into shapelessness. "I wish she could see you now."
As he did so, something strange and disagreeable smote his senses. For a half-moment he did not appreciate its nature. Then his teeth clacked together, his feet, his outstretched arms pointed towards the woods. But he sprang to the side of the man and bent down and peered into his face. There was no face. The Dead and the Countess It was an old cemetery, and they had been long dead.
I've got to see about the cakes." Never having fastened an angel to the top of a tree, for a half-moment Van Landing was uncertain how to go about it, fearing exposure of ignorance and awkwardness; then with a quick movement he was up the ladder and looking down at the girl who was handing him a huge paper doll dressed in the garments supposedly worn by the dwellers of mansions in the sky, and as he took it he laughed.
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