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Brought him, like a trained stallion or a trick dog! He turned to fling the deceit in the Wrestler's teeth. Rolf's fair face was as innocent as those of the pictured saints in the Saxon book. Alwin wavered. After all, what proof had he? Jeering whispers and half-suppressed laughter became audible around him. The group believed that his hesitation arose from timidity.
"I think it is probably your startled nerves, dear," he said, smiling a little. She assented with a half-suppressed shudder. "But I'm sure something will happen directly," she said. "I'm sure. I'm sure." "Well, I shall only be in the next room if it does," he said. He was about to leave her, but she sprang after him, clinging to his arm. "And you won't be late, will you?" she pleaded.
Returning to Paris in November, 1837, the countess entered society for the first time as a married woman during the winter which had just ended, and she then became aware of the existence, half-suppressed and wholly dumb but very useful, of a species of factotum who was personally invisible, named Paz, spelt thus, but pronounced "Patz."
Both seats were filled, and a file of men were standing up, holding on to the cleats overhead. Parties with baskets and bundles were climbing up on the roof. Half-suppressed laughter rippled up from all sides. "Well, for clean, cool, out-and-out cheek, if this don't bang anything that ever I saw, I'm an Injun!" whispered Col. Jack. A Chinaman crowded his way in. "I weaken!" said Col. Jack.
So he bustled off to him, and told his story with the stern solemnity befitting such a theme, and that pallid, half-suppressed smile with which an exciting horror is sometimes related. And the good rector had many ejaculations of consternation and sympathy, and not a few enquiries to utter.
Neither the Zouave nor Madame Caraman heard the half-suppressed exclamation, which had just occurred close to the veranda; Madame Caraman felt astonished, and rising suddenly asked almost breathlessly: "If I understand rightly, then, the Count of Monte-Cristo intends searching the Sahara for Captain Joliette?" "Yes, that is the case, and I accompany him.
These appearances of half-suppressed rage were the more frightful, because they were obviously caused by a strong effort to temper with discretion an almost ungovernable paroxysm of passion, and resulted from an internal conflict of the most dreadful kind, which agitated his whole frame of mortality.
She will get over it, they say contentedly perhaps with self-cherished, half-suppressed recollection of the fact that he and she have themselves got over such a feeling and been very happy, or at least fairly happy, after, in their married lives. But to Helena Langley things looked differently.
Campion, and the artful and half-suppressed gallantry of his manner to the heiress.
I heard Ward utter a half-suppressed guttural of what I took to be amazement, and I did not wonder. The face of the man in the tonneau detached him to the spectator's gaze and singled him out of the concourse with an effect almost ludicrous in its incongruity.
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