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Kensington turned deadly pale at this insult, and his fists clinched "What do you mean?" he said huskily. "I mean what I say. Why don't you take your own wife walking on the deck, and leave the young ladies alone. It's none of your business with whom they walk." Kensington seemed about to reply; but he thought better of it, turned on his heel, and left Montague standing there.
"But I've done so many things," she said, wistfully. "You ought to hate me." And when he said nothing, for the simple reason that he could not speak: "I've ruined us both, haven't I?" Suddenly he caught up her hand and, bending over it, held it to his lips. "Always," he said, huskily, "I love you, Lily. I shall always love you."
'It is true, Markheim said huskily, 'I have in some degree complied with evil. But it is so with all: the very saints, in the mere exercise of living, grow less dainty, and take on the tone of their surroundings. 'I will propound to you one simple question, said the other; 'and as you answer, I shall read to you your moral horoscope.
He knocked; then, not waiting for response, opened the door and entered. Charley was standing before a mirror, holding a pair of scissors. He turned abruptly, and said forbiddingly: "I am at my toilet!" Then, turning again to the mirror, with a shrug of the shoulders, he raised the shears to his beard. Before he could use them, Jo's hand was on his arm. "Stop that, M'sieu'!" he said huskily.
She had arisen long before, and, recognizing this as a dismissal, she bowed, unable to speak, and, with blinded eyes, staggered toward the two steps leading upward from the room. She would have fallen had the ready arm of the President not been near to support her. In the anteroom he said, huskily: "Captain, send an orderly to accompany this lady to her carriage." Merry was in the carriage.
"I knew some wouldn't, but I thought the whole affair would make such a row that Prescott would never be quite able to hold up his head in Gridley again," declared Drayne huskily. "But I thought that it would stop his thinking of going to West Point, anyway." "Instead of which," muttered Simmons dryly, "you'll get four years -or more, Drayne at some place that won't be West Point."
Peter God staggered to his feet as the door opened. His eyes were wild and filled with fever. "You Curtis!" he cried huskily. "My God, didn't you see the flag?" "Yes." Philip's half-frozen features were smiling, and now he was holding out a hand from which he had drawn his mitten. "Lucky I happened along just now, old man. You've got it, eh?"
I could see the red drops widen on the snowy tablecloth, and then Martin Lorimer gripped my hand in a manner that showed no traces of senile decay, saying somewhat huskily as he turned away: "I want time to think it over, but I'll tell thee this.
Orgles's head was now upon one side, so that one of his eyes was able to glare hungrily at her; his big nostrils were dilating with the violence of his passion. Mavis trembled with a fierce, resentful rage. "Your answer: your answer: your answer?" gasped the man huskily. "This: this: this!" cried Mavis, punctuating each word with a blow from her right hand upon Orgles's face. "This: this: this!
The beads of moisture started out upon his forehead, and his nervous hand went up to brush them away. "Not forever, I trust," he said, huskily. "Only until until " "Until July," she ended for him; "until you are married to Miss Priscilla Gower." She held up one little, trembling, dusky hand, and actually began to tell the intervening months off her fingers.
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