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He may also have known how hesitant Jean V had been, for fear of rousing the wrath of the nobility of his duchy, about yielding to the objurgations of the Bishop and raising troops for the pursuit and arrest. "Well, there is no document which answers these questions. An author can take some liberties here and set down his own conjectures. But that curious trial is going to give me some trouble.
But before he could make further explanation, or Hayden could give orders either to ask the lady to enter or to beg that she excuse him, there was a soft, hesitant footfall, the delicate feminine rustle of trailing skirts, the faint delicious fragrance of violets, and he sprang to his feet, his heart pounding. In some mysterious uncannily skilful manner, Tatsu vanished.
Miss Amanda was also visibly excited. She settled her chain and puffed the elaborate coiffure of her hair, the while she continued to survey the class. She looked hesitant and undecided, glancing from row to row; then, as from some inspiration, her face cleared and she grew arch, shaking a finger playfully.
Particularly if " Edmonds paused, hesitant. "If " prompted Banneker. "Fire ahead, Pop." "If Marrineal should declare in on the race for the governorship, next fall." "Without any state organization? Is that probable?" asked Banneker. "Only in case he should make a combination with the old ring crowd, who are, naturally, grateful for his aid in putting over Halloran for them.
She had been hesitant, had been a little resentful of this runaway situation, had not liked my domineering ways; but at last she had relented and had asked my pardon. Then I had spurned her. And then her mind swung to the other man.
Down in a crumbling mass it fell. Thick dust bellied up in a cloud, through which a single sun-ray that entered the cobwebbed pane shot a radiant arrow. Peering, hesitant, fearful of even greater terrors in that other room, Beatrice peered through this dust-haze. A sick foreboding of evil possessed her at thought of what she might find there yet more afraid was she of what she knew lay behind her.
"Who called you?" roared Campbell. "Your bell " began the assistant. "You lie! Get out! I was telling a joke to my old friend Harrigan. Maybe I leaned back against the bell. Shake hands with Harrigan. I've known him for years." Incredulous, Harrigan lowered his clenched fist and relaxed it to meet the hesitant hand of the assistant. "Now be off," growled the chief, and the others fled.
"I had your letter," she was saying, "and resent it, too, that you are going, and so does Stephen." Her face changed, her voice grew hesitant, hurried. "He's never going to be better than now" was it a sob? "but since I may have him, may keep him, and he is willing now to live so for me, though not at first, not at first Oh, Alexina, it has been bitter!" Alexina followed her into the parlour.
You see, Sheila, he's got the whole world to play with. It's quite true." He said this gravely, insistently. "He can give you everything " "And you?" Dickie stared at her with parted lips. He seemed afraid to breathe lest he startle away some hesitant hope. "I?" he whispered. "I mean you don't like the East? You will give up your work?" "Oh " He dropped back.
One peered forth with hesitant bravery; the other she who held the candle with cold, tranquil inquiry. All my fears, such as they were, left me instantly. Besides, I was not without a certain amount of gallantry and humor. I stepped squarely into the light and bowed. "Ladies, I am indeed not a ghost, but I promise you that I shall be if I am not offered something to eat at once!"
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