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"Yes," she replied, without moving or withdrawing her gaze from the stage, and she repeated: "yes, if you wish it." He could not see her face. "Will you do it now?" Duncan demanded, half-startled by her ready acquiescence. "Yes." "Good! I knew you were game!" He left his chair quickly and secured her wraps and his own coat and hat.
And then the moment of delirium, when the light danced; the one wild act that lifted her, the despised one, above them all made her the supreme figure, to be glanced at by frightened women, stared at by half-startled, half-admiring men! "Yes," she laughed; but struck by the sound of her own voice, moved twice round the cavern nervously, and then dropped again into her old position.
As Garnache's tall figure loomed before him he let the girl go and turned a half-laughing, half-startled face upon the intruder.
"I shall take care not to do so, for who will warrant that he is not among us at this very moment?" "Where? Who?" exclaimed we altogether, half-amused, half-startled, looking about the room. "That is impossible." "Oh! to this man, or whatever he may be, things still more incomprehensible are possible." "But who is he? Whence comes he? Is he an Armenian or a Russian?
"Isn't there rather too much disparity of age?" he answered. I was silent, half-startled; then, counting up the years on my fingers, I murmured sadly, "Yes." At nineteen I could say of any little maid I met, that one day she might become my wife; the rising generation belonged to me; but now there is a part of humanity for which I am already too old!
His smile passed. "Well, dear? What is it? You're not going to be afraid of me?" She did not answer him. "I want you to leave me free a little longer," she said. "But you are not free now," he said. She threw him a brief, half-startled glance. "I don't mean that," she said rather haltingly.
It could not have been the sound I made, for I really made none, that roused her; it must just have been the feeling that some one had entered the room. For all at once she opened her eyes, such very sweet blue eyes they were, and looked at me, at first in a half-startled way, but then with a little smile. 'I thought I was dreaming, she whispered. 'I have had such a nice sleep.
"You like sapphires?" he questioned. "Of course," she returned. Her tone was resolutely indifferent, yet something in his look made her avert her eyes abruptly. She turned them upon the ring. "Why did you choose a sapphire?" she said. If she expected some compliment in reply she was disappointed. He stood in silence. Half-startled she glanced at him.
Something about this slender woman with the grey, half-startled eyes, and the soft mouth that quivered so easily, and the soft, thin cheek where the pink pulsed to and fro as rapidly as in a young girl's, touched her curiously. She stood up at last and put a hand on her visitor's shoulder in a hearty, encouraging way. "My dear girl," she said, "come along, you shall have your chance.
The sun was shining when Doris opened her eyes, and she rubbed them to make sure she was not dreaming. There was no motion, and her bed was so soft and wide. She sat up straight, half-startled, and she seemed in a well of fluffy feathers.
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