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"Yes!" he answered. "Don't talk to me about that damned business," he added, with a little burst of half-suppressed passion. "I've done with it. Come and have a drink." Wrayson drew a sigh of relief. Perhaps, for the first time, he realized how great a weight this thing had been upon his spirits.

However, I took him aside, saying, "Sire, I have to ask atonement and reparation for a most horrible piece of injustice." After which, I proceeded to acquaint him with the distressing history of his unfortunate mistress. He appeared perfectly well to recollect the female to whom I alluded; and when I ceased speaking, he said, with a half-suppressed sigh,

Rex held his breath every now and then, as the sound ceased, fearing lest every moment should be the last. The doctor tried to make out the time without carrying his watch to the night-light, failed and returned it to his pocket with a half-suppressed sigh. He had done all that he could, and yet Rex's stony eyes were fixed on him in the early twilight, and his reputation was at stake.

With a half-suppressed whimper she emptied water and fish into an aquarium at the end of the conservatory, and turning to me asked my permission to leave my service.

"Marie Perdue." "'Marie Perdue? What? 'Marie Perdue? What's 'Perdue?" querulously inquired the tall, blonde beauty. "'Thrown away, 'lost, 'abandoned," answered the gentleman, in a low voice. As he spoke he stood up and turned around. Salome uttered a low, half-suppressed cry, and covered her face with both hands.

Down below the compound she heard the stream running swiftly between its banks, with a bubbling murmur like half-suppressed laughter. It was fuller than she had ever known it.

He gave her the letter in its romantic pink, scented envelope with a half-suppressed smile at her eagerness. Would anybody would Estella ever be thus agitated at the receipt of a letter from himself?

'The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner." Dr. Grey had resumed his walk, but the half-suppressed, passionate protest, whose underswell began to agitate her voice, arrested his attention, and he came to the table and stood close to the orphan. "What is the matter with my headstrong young friend?"

"Well, tell him to go to the kitchen till I send for him. Or wait: if his wife 's gone, he 'll be courting the cook if I send him to the kitchen. And I don't want to lose her just now. Tell him to come to the door." "Yes, 'm." The maid gave a half-suppressed giggle, which almost became an explosion as she said something to herself and closed the door.

Miss Beaufort, who believed that the count must now despise her, looked down to conceal the wretchedness which spoke through her eyes, and with a half-suppressed sigh, answered, "I will not deny that I deeply esteem the Count Sobieski. I admired his character before I saw him, and when I did see him, although ignorant that it was he, the impression seemed the same.

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