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His cheeks were colorless, his lips were half-parted, and a sort of frozen horror was stamped on his features. Had he been seized by another spasm of pain, I wondered, or was there a deeper cause for his agitation? "So you can give me no information?" said Christopher Burley, in a tone of disappointment. "I know nothing of the man you seek," I answered.
Gashed and mutilated as he lay, still the features wore no trace of suffering; cold, pale, motionless, but with the tranquil look of sleep, his eyelids were closed, and his half-parted lips seemed still to quiver in life. I knelt down beside him; I took his hand in mine; I bent over and whispered his name; I placed my hand upon his heart, where even still the life blood was warm, but he was dead.
Then, even as the end of the last minute came, a cry broke through her white, half-parted lips: "The Earth, the Earth thank God, the Earth!" With the hand that held the draught of Lethe which in another moment she would have swallowed she caught at her husband's hand, pulled the glass out of it, and then with a little sigh she dropped senseless on the floor of the conning-tower.
The lettering traced along its side was faded and dim; but he saw again the child's eyes lifted to it the lips half-parted, the eager question and swift demand that he should tell her of Athens and the Parthenon and the same love and the wonder that dwelt in his own heart for the city of his birth. It was a strange coincidence that the child should have come to him.
The lion fell back, the ripping claws having missed the meat by some two or three feet, and Gloria heard the low, rumbling growl. Again it sprang; again it missed. And then, for a weary time of silence it sat still, its head back, its eyes on the desired meal. In the moonlight Gloria saw the glistening saliva from the half-parted jaws.
She was a remarkably pretty, even handsome young lady, whose pale, clear, olive complexion and coal-black hair bespoke her Southern birth; while there was an eager and yet timid look in her lustrous, soft black eyes, and something about the mobile, half-parted mouth that seemed to say she hardly knew whether to cry or laugh over this meeting with an old friend.
Is he not bound to crush the creature out of existence, to keep God's earth and the free sunlight sweet and pure? But then but then the beauty of her! In dreams he heard her low, sweet laugh again; he saw the beautiful brown hair; he surrendered to the irresistible witchery of the clear and lovely eyes. What would not a man give for one last, wild kiss of the laughing and half-parted lips?
In spite of himself, he bent down, came so close, so close that he was seized with giddiness and had to make a great effort to lay the girl's head on the back of the chair and to take his eyes from the fair face with the half-parted lips. He rose to his feet and went. Of all these events the public knew only of the attempted suicide of Mme.
The face of the priest, a man approaching his fortieth year, was as pink and white as a child's, and framed by a thin light-brown beard. A narrow circle of thin light hair surrounded his large tonsure, and a heavy dark rosary of olive-wood beads hung from the sleeper's hands. A gentle, kindly smile hovered around his half-parted lips.
He looked into her troubled eyes; he drew her to him and kissed the half-parted lips, and she cried out, a bitter, hopeless cry, "Not that not that!" But he held her close and strong, whispering words of honest love and passion, and when she sobbed "Not that not that I have promised!
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