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Is it appropriate, do you think, for the part we were talking about?" Turning around slowly, with arms half-raised. "Charming, my dear; charming!" he answered, enthusiastically. "If I only thought that an unbiased criticism!" Her dark lashes lowered; she looked toward the soldier, half shyly, half mockingly. "What do you think, Mr. Saint-Prosper?"
Illuminated by the full glare of the light from the palace windows, these groups, huddled together in the distorted attitudes of suffering and despair, assumed a fearful and unearthly appearance. Their shrivelled faces, their tattered clothing, their wan forms, here prostrate, there half-raised, were bathed in a steady red glow.
She half-raised her hands with an impulsive movement to hide it. "I won't. I won't. I won't!" she gasped. Mr. Scobell was pacing the room in an ecstasy of triumphant rhetoric. "There's another thing," he said, swinging round suddenly and causing his sister to drop another stitch. "Maybe you think he's some kind of a Dago, this guy? Maybe that's what's biting you.
"You will not think it ungracious if I say there is no one else who can do what seems so necessary, and ask you if you do not consider that you owe something to my father. It is hard for me, not because I doubt you, but because " Geoffrey checked her with a half-raised hand. "Please don't, Miss Savine I can understand.
An instant he remained in that bowed attitude with head half-raised. Then suddenly straightening himself he swung round and came face to face with Cecile Deshaix. Confronting each other and very close they now stood and each was breathing with more than normal quickness.
The room was empty. Yet across it there was the indefinable trail of a presence, an odour, a vibration, he knew not what, and where a bar of sunlight cut the gloom under a half-raised curtain, he saw the motes in the air all astir. Opposite the door he had opened was another, leading, apparently, to a room at the back of the house.
For an instant the words conveyed no meaning to Ralph; then they surged up into his brain and flung him forward with half-raised arm. But he felt the grotesqueness of the gesture and his arm dropped back to his side. A series of unimportant and irrelevant things raced through his mind; then obscurity settled down on it.
Gantry stared over her half-raised lorgnette. She had never before known her niece to be other than the very pattern of docility. "Well!" she remarked, and, after a little pause; "Fortunately, that absurd agreement is now at an end. The earl intimated that he would call on you this afternoon. I am sure, my dear " Of what the lady was sure was left to conjecture.
As she turned away, his face looked grim and forlorn. He balanced with half-raised arms on the cliff's brink. The river slumbered bluely on below, peace was aloft in the sky, and joy in the trees and grass. But in the man were darkness and despair and loathing of his God-given life! The thing he meditated was not to be, however.
The besotted face of Farley, ghastly white and blear-eyed, was leering at them through a hole in the rear wall. Before Lennon could free himself from the soft clasp of the girl's arm and dash across the room, the eavesdropper had disappeared. Elsie darted after Lennon to clutch his half-raised rifle. "Don't shoot don't shoot!" she begged. "It's only Dad. He's having one of his spells.
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