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"Wow! but it's ill to bear!" exclaimed old Duncan, with a half-suppressed groan. Meanwhile his daughter put the tin kettle on the fire and prepared their last cup of tea. When it was ready she looked up with a peculiar expression on her face, as she drew something from her pocket. "Look here, daddy," she said, holding up a bit of pemmican about the size of a hen's egg.
"Did you tell him that you had signed the pledge?" "Yes. But it was no use. He did not seem to care for me any more than he did for a dog." The poor man's distress was so great that he covered his face with his hands, and sat swinging his body to and fro, and uttering half-suppressed moans. "What are we to do, Mary? There is no other shop in town," he said, looking up, after growing a little calm.
'So am I. And doth Glaucus visit her much? 'Daily' returned Nydia, with a half-suppressed sigh. 'Daily, indeed! Does he find her handsome? 'I should think so, since they are so soon to be wedded. 'Wedded! cried Julia, turning pale even through the false roses on her cheek, and starting from her couch. Nydia did not, of course, perceive the emotion she had caused.
The expression upon her face was that of a drowning person, who, when all hope has been abandoned, sees a rescuer suddenly at hand. It was this look more than the half-suppressed laugh that passed among the men, which caused him to fling another one hundred dollars at the auctioneer. "Four thousand," again came strong and clear from Parson John without the slightest hesitation.
Uncle Dick, in telling the story, said: "They left at an early hour, going in an opposite direction from their camp, and I closed my doors soon after, for the night. They had not been gone more than half an hour, when I heard them talking not far from my house, and a few seconds later I heard the half-suppressed cry of a man who has received his death-blow.
It was only a slight hesitation, and no one remarked anything out of the way. For five minutes he spoke with increasing power and feeling. The church was filled. It was very quiet. Suddenly, without any warning, he threw up his arms, uttered a cry of half-suppressed agony, and then fell over backward. A thrill of excitement ran through the audience. For a moment no one moved; then every one rose.
The stitches must heal before the bandages can come off his eyes. Even then, Mrs. Plume, he should not be disturbed," was the uncompromising answer. "Is that wretch, Downs, sober yet?" she demanded, standing and confronting him, her whole form quivering with strong, half-suppressed emotion. "The wretch is sobering," answered Graham gravely. "And now, madame, I'll trouble you to take a chair.
"Well, sir but, lord, it is all servants' gossip, and there may be nothing in it; but they do say that the master of the house is too fond of the visitor, and likewise she of him; and that this do make the mistress of the house very unhappy." "Ah!" exclaimed the stranger, in a half-suppressed voice.
In such dilemmas, the first suggestion generally proves the best; and on this occasion the servant was provided with one. "The tower-chamber," said he, in a half-suppressed voice, and casting a look of doubt on his master.
She had scarcely finished the first verse, ere the chorus was repeated by some one within the dwelling; and she recognized the half-suppressed growl of Hylax, as if his barking had been checked by some cautious hand. Afraid to attract attention by a prolonged stay, Milza passed along and entered the servants' apartment.
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