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Mrs Starvem, being so fat that she knew if she once knelt down she would never be able to get up again, compromised by sitting on the extreme edge of her chair, resting her elbows on the back of the seat in front of her, and burying her face in her hands. It was a very large face, but her hands were capacious enough to receive it.
Gerty knelt beside her, waiting, with the patience born of experience, till this gust of misery should loosen fresh speech. She had first imagined some physical shock, some peril of the crowded streets, since Lily was presumably on her way home from Carry Fisher's; but she now saw that other nerve-centres were smitten, and her mind trembled back from conjecture.
He knelt down before her and she took his head between her slim hands and pressed her mouth against his. George, the squire, saw this, sighed deeply, and wondered: "Why was my father only a miller? What favours are granted to a knight like that!
Finally, when the visitors had all gone, Aunt Faith rose; "I hope you will stay to prayers, John," she said; "it is late, but the bright moonlight seems to postpone the hour of sleeping." "Yes, Aunt Faith," replied Mr. Leslie; "we will stay, and Sibyl can play the hymn." He read a chapter from the Bible, then they all sang a hymn and knelt a few moments in prayer.
Harding's attendance at that bedside had been nearly as constant as that of the archdeacon, and his ingress and egress was as much a matter of course as that of his son-in-law. He was standing close beside the archdeacon before he was perceived, and would also have knelt in prayer had he not feared that his doing so might have caused some sudden start and have disturbed the dying man. Dr.
Frank did not need to strain his ears to hear the words; every one came clear, searching, delicately valued: "In the flash of the singing dawn, At the door of the Great One, The joy of his lodge knelt down, Knelt down, and her hair in the sun Shone like showering dust, And her eyes were as eyes of the fawn.
Thus shall you gain the respite you desire." The executioner then tied tight the cords round her hands that he had let loose before, and she advanced pretty firmly and knelt before the altar, between the doctor and the chaplain.
Stealthily moving round between that prostrate figure and the water, he knelt down and said, as best he could, for the husk in his throat: "My darling!" Gyp raised her head and stared at him. Her white face, with eyes unnaturally dark and large, and hair falling all over it, was strange to him the face of grief itself, stripped of the wrappings of form.
The Gentleman took it, and seeing a pale face peering behind the other's shoulder, "She's not suffering, I think. Don't look, Little Chap." He walked back to the filly. Lying still now, her head along the greensward, she watched him coming; snorting through full-blown nostrils. He knelt at her head, pulling her ear, and caressing her. "There, then, there! It's all over now, little woman.
I'll leave him with you, my beauty, and you can say to each other what you please." And then he kissed her very tenderly and turned away. She felt that Hubert had followed him, and had stepped into the room; but she could not raise her eyes. She was obliged to see him however when he knelt down before her, and put his clasped hands very gently upon her knee.
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