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Answer me that, little Merle what do YOU think?" The girl sat motionless, breathing softly, with closed eyes. Then she began to smile and her lips were full and red, and at last they shaped themselves to a kiss. Bruseth was a large farm lying high above the town, with its garden and avenues and long verandahs round the white dwelling-house.
Can't you distinguish a pale figure standing there, quite motionless?" * Fennel-root, eaten raw, a favourite "appetiser" in Rome during the spring and autumn. Trans. The young man began to laugh. "Oh! well," said he, "it must be the Holy Father in person. You are so anxious to see him that your very anxiety conjures him into your presence."
He talked rapidly, hinting at beliefs and idolatries, comparing West with East, and East with West, while he stood motionless, one hand upon the fence earnest, sincere, strong in his request.
Each word was legislative and decreed a fresh fall. The attention was general; every one was motionless, so as not to lose a word; all eyes were fixed upon the 'greffier' who was reading.
She had heard the thud of horses' hoofs, but now not a horse was to be seen. Fifty feet from her, perhaps, lay the silent form of Hiram Hooker, flat on his back. No other human being save herself and Hiram seemed to be in all that dripping wilderness. Time and again she called to the man to whom she had given her heart, but Hiram's lips remained motionless. A great fear clutched at her.
But when the sun has climbed within an hour or two of the meridian, some one less drowsy than the rest shouts, "They're coming!" Across the prairie where he points there is no living thing in sight, but beyond the most distant ridge a great dust-column seems to touch the sky and stand motionless.
Barbarina was motionless, only her large black eyes wandered questioningly from one to the other; she sought to read the meaning of their words, not one of which she understood; but her features expressed no anxiety, no disquiet; she did not look like a culprit or a rebel; she had rather the air of a stern queen, withholding her royal favor. The king drew near her.
She consumes and slays, but is powerless to destroy as to create." The animal lay motionless, its beryl eyes fixed flaming on the man: his eyes on hers held them fixed that they could not move from his. "Then God gave me another wife not an angel but a woman who is to this as light is to darkness." The cat gave a horrible screech, and began to grow bigger. She went on growing and growing.
Thus he sat in the nearly motionless air, gazing on the ripples of the lagoon as, now singly, and now by twos or threes, they glided up the beach tinged with the colors of parting day as with a grace of resignation, and sank into the grateful sands like the lines of this last verse sinking into his heart; now singly "I have gone astray like a lost sheep;" and now by twos "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; save thy servant;" or by threes "I have gone astray like a lost sheep; save thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments."
"Oh, Mel!" suddenly exclaimed Dot, calling her brother by the name she always used, "who is that on horseback?" Dot pointed to a slight eminence between their house and the stream; and, shifting his glance, Melville saw an Indian horseman standing as motionless as if he and his animal were carved in stone.
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