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Herbert yet lingered; they were alone in the cabin, the confusion attendant on a departure preventing all fear of intruders. He clasped Mary to his heart, in one long passionate embrace, then hastily placing the trembling girl in the arms of her mother, he murmured almost inaudibly "Mrs. Greville, dearest Mrs.
She raised her eyes to heaven in thanksgiving. "He is not dead," said she, almost inaudibly. "Then you have read very carelessly," returned Barbesieur. "The letter says, 'so dangerously wounded that he was transported in a dying condition to Vienna," "Had he been dying, he would not have been transported to Vienna," exclaimed Laura, with a smile of returning hope. "No, no!
Sometimes he would gaze on Lester with a strange and glassy eye, and mutter inaudibly to himself, as if unaware of the old man's presence; at others, he would shrink from Lester's proffered hand, and start abruptly from his professions of unaltered, unalterable regard; sometimes he would sit silently, and, with a changeless and stony countenance, look upon Madeline as she now spoke in that exalted tone of consolation which had passed away from himself; and when she had done, instead of replying to her speech, he would say abruptly, "Ay, at the worst you love me, then love me better than any one on earth say that, Madeline, again say that!"
Of course when not actually engaged in addressing the court one might chew tobacco in moderation, it being an indisputable fact that such was conducive to lubrication of the mental processes and a sedative for the nerves besides; but the act of chewing must be discreetly and inaudibly carried on, and he who in the heat of argument or under the stress of cross-questioning a perverse witness failed to patronize the cuspidors which dotted the floor at suitable intervals stood in peril of a stern admonishment for the first offense and a fine for the second.
And for the first time she was afraid of meeting his eyes. "Do I look like that?" Her head drooped lower, her fingers twining and intertwining nervously, and her dry lips almost refused their office. "I have seen you like that," very slowly and almost inaudibly, but he caught the reluctant admission. "So damnable?" She flinched from the loathing in his voice. "I am sorry " she murmured faintly.
"One person at least," he answered significantly. She caught her breath, and the hand that passed hastily across her forehead trembled. "Even if it were true what you say," she said, half inaudibly, "it does not alter the fact that we must atone for what has been done." "It is the justice of the world," he assented. "We must make good the harm we do and the harm that has been done us."
"Tess, I been goin' to tell ye somethin' fer a long time," he stammered, almost inaudibly. "Ye won't git miffed with a old friend, will ye?" "Sure not, 'Satisfied'," asserted Tess, gently. "It air 'bout Student Graves," explained Longman. A glint of gold flashed from under her lowered lids and a slow, deep scarlet ran in waves upward from her chin.
She raised her eyes, and, with a smile, turned them towards the bay, when observing that the sailors were painting the cutter's hull, and scraping the spars, she appeared pleased with the sight; and dropping her eyes towards the ground again, her tiny foot dallied with a blade of grass, and, almost inaudibly, "Call me Gunilda," she said.
His restlessness tormented him in a strange way. Now he picked up one trifle from the table, now another, and put it down again. He took a prism in his hand. Trirodov trembled. He said something quietly and inaudibly. Piotr did not hear, but kept on looking in astonishment at the heavy prism in his hand; and as he turned it over and over he wondered at the reason of its weight.
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