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Though she was devout Catholic and well aware of the contempt of the church for such vanities, religion could not entirely efface her pride. During the first few days she passed and repassed my cabin in her walks about her household duties, lifting her tunic each day a little higher.
The Hills had come grandly into view, but unhappily we were fast in a ditch. The lady looking to the "sais" said, "Sais, do you not see the hills?" To which he most dolefully replied, not lifting his eyes as he spoke, "Madam, what can I see? We are stuck in the mud." One day we took full ten hours to go twelve miles.
"I learned it from a Russian Pole, a political exile, with whom I worked for about six hours a day for nearly twelve months, in order that I might qualify myself to accompany Sir Robert Wilson." "This is my little friend Stephanie, Frank," Julian said, lifting the child up on his shoulder, her favourite place. "And this is my Nurse Julian," the child said with a laugh. "Isn't he a big nurse?"
In some cases it is sufficient to say, "You will wake up in five minutes"; or tell a subject to count twelve and when he gets to ten say, "Wake up." Persons in the lethargic state are not susceptible to verbal suggestions, but may be awakened by lifting both eyelids.
"No, no " she murmured, sliding low within his arms. "Look first around, if our house be worthy!" But he caught her up, and lifting her, crushing her body to his, carried her into the hut. She awoke at daybreak to the twittering of birds. Raising herself little by little, she bent over him, studying the face of her beloved.
"Good evening, Mademoiselle," he said, politely lifting his hat. She straightened haughtily. "Monsieur," she said, resentment, consternation and indignation struggling to predominate in her tones, "I did not give you permission to sit down. You are impertinent!" "O, no," Maurice declared. "I am not impertinent. I am lonesome.
She gave the fascinated Kells her hands, slipped into his arms, to press against his breast, and leaned against him an instant, all one quivering, surrendered body; and then lifting a white face, true in its radiance to her honest and supreme purpose to give him one fleeting glimpse of the beauty and tenderness and soul of love, she put warm and tremulous lips to his.
"Most decidedly I should do nothing of the kind!" said Key half impatiently. "Enough, that it was given to me by a very pretty girl. There! that's all you will know." "GIVEN to you?" said Collinson, lifting his eyes. "Yes," returned Key sharply. Collinson handed him the slipper gravely.
Yes, that would set me on my legs without doubt, for Donna Inez is the only daughter and heiress of the Marquis of Ribaldo; but you see there is a father in the case, and if that father had the slightest idea that plain Gerald Burke was lifting his eyes to his daughter it would not be many hours before Gerald Burke had several inches of steel in his body."
Once he suggested that Dan might like to leave the Boordman for a new office building that was lifting the urban skyline; but the following day he came rather pointedly to Dan's desk, and with an embarrassment he rarely showed, said that of course if Dan moved he should expect to go with him; he hoped Dan had understood that.
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