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A black-bearded man of much rank peered into his face, crying out: "Boylan, by the One God!" "Herr Hartz by the same!" Big Belt exclaimed. And now they embraced a mighty affair, a memorable spectacle of pounding, of disengagement, of renewed embrace so that soldiers and hospital men circled wide in passing, and the little street was hushed with the exceeding joy. "Come and live with me, Boylan.
The boat had already drawn up by the quay-side. There was a hushed whisper from several officials standing by: "There he is." I looked and saw the King gaily chatting to the Naval Officer in charge. I wondered whether His Majesty would like being photographed, therefore I carefully kept my camera under cover of a shelter close by. At that moment the King's equerry came ashore.
"I marvel at my own calmness pray Heaven that when too late, I do not find that it has been only the apathy of despair. I will be calm my hushed and trembling heart shall at least be silent by-and-by it will, perhaps, be numbed into insensibility.
For a long while Sigismund Taylor listened with no more than average interest to Charlie's story, but it chanced that one word caught his notice. "She comes out of the temple," said Charlie, in the voice of hushed reverence with which he was wont to talk of the unhappy lady. "Out of where?" asked Mr. Taylor. "The temple.
Suppose we go out on the balcony, and see whether any of Miss Girond's statues are visible." They agreed to this, for they had not taken off their cloaks; so he led them along the hall and round by a smaller passage to a door which he opened; they got outside, and found themselves in the hushed, still night.
The place was hushed and void; the quiet neighborhood had gone to sleep. A lamp, here and there, over the narrow black water, glimmered in double; the voice of a man going homeward singing, with his jacket on his shoulder and his hat on his ear, came to us from a distance. This did not prevent the scene from being very comme il faut, as Miss Bordereau had called it the first time I saw her.
But at that thought Randal's pale lip curled disdainfully; he confided too much in his own powers not to think that he could elude the grasp of the usurer, whenever it suited him to do so. Thus, on a survey, all conscience hushed itself; his mind rushed buoyantly on to anticipations of the future.
'She was the woman who was employing me. Now I shall be taken off the job and have to go back to London. 'You don't mean that it was really Crane's wife? Jelliffe was regarding him with a kind of awe. 'Laddie, he said, in a hushed voice, 'you almost scare me. There seems to be no limit to your powers as a mascot.
Amazed, bewildered, the Barons mechanically bent the knee: the friars who had received their confessions, administered the appointed oath; and while, with white lips, they muttered the solemn words, they heard below the roar of the multitude for their blood. Before he concluded, however, every wave of the wild sea lay hushed.
I entered reverently. I took only the silverbound prayer-book, cast a lingering look at the old familiar objects dimly defined, and came out and locked the door again. I said very quietly that I would send for the things that afternoon, for my anger was hushed by what I had seen. We halted together on the uncovered porch in front of the house, that had a seat set on each side of it.
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