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As they turned a bend in the pike she glanced back with a carefully careless air, but saw only their own dust. John, driving beside his mother, with eyes on the infirm wheel, was very silent, and she was very limp. The buggy top was up for privacy. By and by he heard a half-spoken sound at his side, and turning saw her eyes full of tears.
"He must value me above all the world." "But, Kitty," protested Hardy, "I do " "No," said Kitty, "you do not love me." There was a lash to the words that cut him a scorn half-spoken, half-expressed by the slant of her eye. As he hesitated he felt the hot blood burn at his brow. "Rufus," she cried, turning upon him quickly, "do you love me? Then take me in your arms and kiss me!"
For it must be only a matter of time, and no very long time at that, when exhaustion and starvation would weaken him and when he must inevitably be swept away. And in his mind he knew the future, which voiced itself in a half-spoken groan: "If she's not there, or if she's there, but dead good-by!" Even as he sensed the truth he found her.
The wayfarer opened his mouth and closed it suddenly on a half-spoken and indignant refusal of this honor. He pursed his lips and his thick brows drew together in a frown. Then, as if in spite of himself, he began to smile. "I will be no burden to thee," pleaded the home-made knight. "I have had my armor for a long time and have practised walking in it." "But why the tin suit?" expostulated Farr.
Moral greatness consists in feeling much and controlling much, in being sober in words and chaste in thought, in not making a parade of it, in making a look speak and speak profoundly, without childish exaggeration or effeminate effusiveness, to those who can grasp the half-spoken thought, to men.
Yes, I'll bid Lucian good-by, for a little while, and I'll try and not miss him too much, for Oh!" She had been very busy with her own half-spoken thoughts, else she must have sooner discovered their approach, for now they were almost underneath her, and they were no less personages than her step-father, John Arthur, and her would-be suitor, Amos Adams.
"Poor young fellur!" is his half-spoken reflection; "he's wrote somethin' to tell how he died mayhap somethin' for me to carry back to the dear 'uns he's left behind in ole Kaintuck. Wall, that thing shall sartinly be done ef ever this chile gets to the States agin. Darnashin! only to think how near I war to savin' him; a whole doe deer, an' water enough to a drownded him!
Rossitur's half-spoken last charge, to take care of herself; and with these seals upon her mission, Fleda set forth and joined the doctor, thankful for one foil to curiosity in the shape of a veil, and only wishing that there were any invented screen that she could place between her and hearing.
The thoughts of the infatuated Hira found expression in speech. Debendra discovered from her half-spoken words that she had given her heart to him. The words were hardly uttered when Hira recovered consciousness. Then, with the wild look of a frantic creature, she exclaimed, "Go from my house!" Astonished, Debendra said, "What is the matter, Hira?" "You must go at once, or I shall."
"That be d d," he responded quickly. "Jutht thay you'll come, Tita, and " She stopped his half-spoken sentence with a negative gesture. "You don't understand. I shall stay here." "But even if they don't theek you here, you can't live here forever. The friend that you wrote about who wath tho good to you, you know, can't keep you here alwayth; and are you thure you can alwayth trutht her?"
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