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"Do not let me regret my return," said the stranger, approaching after a short pause, and with much gentleness in his voice and smile; "and think that the owner is doomed to scare away the fair spirits that haunted the spot in his absence." "The owner!" repeated Evelyn, almost inaudibly, and in increased embarrassment; "are you then the the "
'What vigour! what light and shade! he exclaimed, inaudibly. 'If I can get him in only half as vigorously as he sits there, the portrait will beat every thing I have done: he will walk out of the canvass.
It happened that when he drew in to his cookhouse float, Stella was standing in her kitchen door. Fyfe looked up at her and held aloft a dozen trout strung by the gills on a stick, gleaming in the sun. "Vanity," she commented inaudibly. "I wonder if he thinks I've been admiring his skill as a fisherman?"
"I don't know why," the Manager exclaimed, "but they love it!" "Most of them are from the 'Ed 9 Film Society," Tom replied. "By the way, I need to restock." "I brought three boxes up already they're by the stairs. And once you're done with that whatever else needs to be done out here, you can go home early!" "A whole five minutes?" Tom muttered, almost inaudibly.
It's bad enough having to go by these beastly steamers to India at all, without having one's breath poisoned by " the rest of the sentence died away inaudibly in a general murmur of ineffective grumbling. "Why do you think she is EXCLUSIVE?" I asked Hilda as we strolled on towards the stern, out of the spoilt child's hearing.
For a moment that was as far as he got, and he glanced down the street and then at the heaving beast he had ridden, which stood with head drooping to the kennel. Then he laid hold of me. "Davy, is it true that she has yellow fever? Is it true?" "Who told you?" I demanded angrily. "Andre," he answered. "Andre said that the lady here had yellow fever. Is it true?" "Yes," I said almost inaudibly.
Maltravers entered with a quick and even a hurried step. He stopped short when he saw Evelyn; and his whole countenance was instantly lightened up by a joyous expression, which as suddenly died away. "This is kind, indeed," said Mrs. Merton; "it is so long since we have seen you." "I have been very much occupied," muttered Maltravers, almost inaudibly, and seated himself next Evelyn.
"Say," he said, "if I promise, honest-Injun, to go 'way off to the other end of the station, couldn't you just lift your muff up high, once, if everything comes out the way you want it?" "Y-e-s," whispered the Youngish Girl almost inaudibly.
Now she even succeeded in moving her lips, and the man, who still held her little burning hand clasped in his first heard his own name very faintly uttered; then her parched lips almost inaudibly repeated the exclamation: "Too late!" and again, "Too late!" The next instant she pressed her left hand upon her panting breast.
"I'll do all that. You shall have a nurse when you are strong enough who will take you across. Now I must go. Can you just tell me first where the boy is?" Almost inaudibly she gave an address in Kentish Town. He saw that she could bear no more, and he rose. "Try and sleep," he said in a voice that wavered. "I'll see you again to-morrow. You're all right here."
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