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And then she seemed to come to herself, saying loud out, "And that I will! and that I will!" and lo, she was kneeling on the warm, soft sod alone, and hearing the sound of his footsteps as he went about his Father's business, filling all the air with echoes of blessing.
I swear I did not distrust you; if anyone distrusts you, it is not I." Then kneeling before her, he begged to kiss her hand. She gave it, and asked him to pray to God for her. "Ah yes," he cried, sobbing, "with all my heart." She then fastened her dress as best she could with her hands tied, and when the gaoler had gone and she was alone with the doctor, said: "Did you not hear what I said, sir?
The handsome boy with the sad face had appealed to her very deeply, and she bore him in her thoughts a great deal; but now he came in a new guise as a lover, bold, outspoken, and persuasive. "What shall I do? Shall I tell Aunt Lida?" she asked herself, and ended by kneeling down and praying to Jesus to give the young man a new heart. In this fashion the courtship went on.
But when, having penetrated the palisaded area and stumbled down the terraces, he reached her side, he stopped short, shaking, speechless, with wide and terror-stricken eyes. "Beatrice! Beta! My God, what's what's happened here?" he stammered, kneeling beside her, raising her in his weakened arms, covering her pallid face with kisses, chafing her throat, her temples, her hands.
She was kneeling before the old armchair, and his father was lying back quite white, his head on his breast, one of his hands resting on an open book, with a pencil clutched in it more strangely still than anything he had ever seen. She looked round wildly, and said: "Oh! Jon he's dead he's dead!"
In twenty minutes this swelling will reach my shoulder, and the way from thence to the heart is short." The doctor, who hastened to appear, confirmed Topándy's opinion. "There is nothing to be done," he said. Lorand, horror-stricken, hastened to take care of his uncle: the old fellow embraced the neck of the youth kneeling beside him. "You philosopher, you were right after all, you see.
Who let that material cat out of the spiritual bag? The Church of the Servant-girls Was it for this that prayers like these Should spend themselves about thy feet, And with hard, overlabored knees Kneeling, these slaves of men should beat Bosoms too lean to suckle sons And fruitless as their orisons?
Have you ceased to trust me your good genius? me, when I have spent so many nights working for you when I have given you every franc I have saved in my lifetime when for four years I have shared my bread with you, the bread of a hard-worked woman, and given you all I had, to my very courage." "Mademoiselle no more, no more!" he cried, kneeling before her with uplifted hands. "Say not another word!
Baby was still asleep, but Elizabeth contrived, by kneeling down close to the bed, to put the tiny hand under those cold fingers; they closed immediately upon it, and so remained till the last. When Miss Leaf and Miss Hilary came in, Elizabeth was still kneeling there, trying softly to take the little hand away; for the baby had wakened and began its piteous wail.
During the narration, Liza had been kneeling, with her arms in her friend's lap. Jumping up when Rotha had ceased, she cried, in reply to the last inquiry, "I know. I'll just slip away to Robbie. He shall be off and fetch your father back." "Robbie?" said Rotha, looking astonished. "Never fear, I'll manage him. And now, cheer up, my lass; cheer up."
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