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The king's son was aware, as he half-rose and delivered that desperate blow, of a mighty bulk shooting by, of an overpowering, sickening stench of musk, and of eyes, through the foam and the water two little, wicked, unspeakably cruel eyes on knobs. His chance! And, quick as light, he took it. Ough! The rest was chaos.
De Peyster, call up your nerve; you'll need it, for you know that Mayfair is the cleverest reporter in Park Row. And now, Mrs. Jack De Peyster," for Mary stood nearest the door, "let them in." Mrs. De Peyster half-rose in ultimate consternation. "Oh, please please you're not going to let them in!" "We don't dare keep them out!" Mr. Pyecroft pressed Mrs. De Peyster firmly back into her chair.
Luttrell called for help, and half-rose from her chair. But Dino laid his hand upon her arm. "Let him go," said he. "I have no desire to punish him. But I must warn you." The door clanged behind the flying figure, and awakened the echoes of the old house. Hugo was gone: whither they knew not: away, perhaps, into the world of darkness that reigned without. Mrs.
"Then, why, after all, are you in such haste?" "There's your carriage," said Archer. She half-rose and looked about her with absent eyes. Her fan and gloves lay on the sofa beside her and she picked them up mechanically. "Yes; I suppose I must be going." "You're going to Mrs. Struthers's?" "Yes." She smiled and added: "I must go where I am invited, or I should be too lonely. Why not come with me?"
Just as the last bid was given, Elzevir half-rose from his chair, and for a moment I expected to see him spring like a wild beast on Maskew; but he said nothing, and sat down again with the same stolid look on his face.
She looked at him, startled by his deadly paleness; but then, perhaps, the summons accounted for that. She murmured her regrets, then bent again over her baby. "You have nothing to say to me, Ethel, before I go?" he said, looking at her steadily. She half-lifted her head, the words half-rose to her lips.
Dick demanded, taking a step toward him, and prevented from going farther only by recollection of his previous loss of temper. For an instant the mine owner defiantly met his look, and then half-rose from his chair, and stared more coldly across the litter of papers, plans, and impedimenta on his desk. "Then why are you here together?" he demanded.
But when, after a few moments of perfect silence, two or three men entered quietly and rapidly, and, lifting the coffin, began to bear it softly out of the room, he looked troubled and surprised, and glanced vaguely and inquiringly from one person to another, until, as it was passing out of the door, his face was covered with a piteous look of appeal: he half-rose from his chair, and reached out toward the door, with the long white fingers clutching in the air; but Hope Wayne took the wasted hands in hers, placed her arm behind him gently, and tenderly pressed him back into the chair.
"You said just now that you wished to regain your self-respect. Well, you must regain it before you can ask me or any one else to recommend you to a position of trust." Wyant half-rose, with an angry murmur. "My self-respect? What do you mean? I meant that I'd lost courage through ill-luck " "Yes; and your ill-luck has come through your own fault.
She was evidently watching and listening for his coming, for as soon as the door was partly open, she half-rose from the couch on which she was lying and stretched out her arms to him. In an instant he was kneeling at her side. "My darling," he whispered. "My darling! Are you better?" "I am quite out of pain, John, only a little weak. In a few days I shall be all right."
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