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A hundred times I have summoned my courage to tell you, I could not. I am justly punished, Antoinette." She moved a little, timidly, towards the girl, who stood motionless, dazed by what she heard. She held out a hand, appealingly, and dropped it. "Good-by, my dear; God will bless you for your kindness to an unfortunate outcast."
He opened his eyes, which had remained closed even while he stood motionless, and, with a smile sweeter than any she had ever seen on such a strong face, answered: "It's nobody's, miss." "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?" "I don't know exactly what that means." "You must have learned it from notes?" "I couldn't read them if I had any to read," he answered.
And, motionless on the wall, its feelers spread out star-like, sleeps some great garden spider, which one must not kill because it is night. "Hou!" says Chrysantheme, indignantly, pointing it out to me with levelled finger. Quick! where is the fan kept for the purpose, wherewith to hunt it out of doors?
Kirsha's mother passed by all white, all lovely, all gentle. She turned her tranquil eyes upon her dear ones and whispered: "I will come." Kirsha, transported with a quiet joy, stood motionless. His eyes gleamed like the eyes of the quiet angel who stood there on guard. Again the dead throng moved on. A governor passed by. All his figure breathed might and majesty.
And I pray God, if this be wilful blindness, that he may enlighten me before too late." He had heard me motionless, and stood so a while longer. "This is an unexpected obstacle," says he, aloud, but to himself. "And how is your lordship to dispose of me?" I asked. "If I wished," said he, "you know that you might sleep in gaol?" "My lord," says I, "I have slept in worse places."
The pair stood motionless, their hearts in their ears. What they heard was unmistakable. "A motor," said Amaryllis. "It's coming down." She laid a hand on his shoulder, lifting her face to him. When he raised his own from it, it was to watch the point where the descending road took its last bend in the passage by which it had traversed the ridge: the point where the approaching car must appear.
Not until Darrell repeated Whitcomb's dying words was there any movement on his part; then he turned his head so that his face was hidden and remained motionless and silent as before. At last he inquired, "Did he leave no message for me?" "He mentioned only your daughter, Mr. Underwood; he evidently had some message for her which he was unable to give." A long silence followed.
"Mademoiselle," said the vicomte eagerly, "I swear to you, that your voice is familiar to my ears." He addressed the black mask, but he looked searchingly at the grey. His reward was small. She maintained under his scrutiny an icy, motionless dignity. "And permit me to say," returned the black mask, "that while your voice is not familiar, the tone is, and very displeasing to my ears.
So it came to pass that when Overholt was pottering over the beautiful motionless Motor, late at night, sure that it would work if he had a little more money, but still more sure that it must be sold for old metal the next morning, to buy bread for the boy, even at that hour help was near, and from the hand he loved best in the world, which would make it ten thousand times sweeter when it reached him.
Both were silent and motionless, except when Cynthy once in a while got up to readjust the sticks of wood on the fire. They sat there waiting so long that Fleda's anxiety began to quicken again. "Don't you think the doctor is a long time coming, Cynthy?" said she raising her head at last. Her question, breaking that forced silence, sounded fearful. "It seems kind o' long," said Cynthy.
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