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Otway Bethel's recognition of him; Sir Francis Levison's scared paleness, for he had noticed that; Mr. Ebenezer's revelation. The point in it all, that finally settled most upon Mr. Carlyle, was the thought that if Levison were indeed the man, he could not be instrumental in bringing him to justice.
Filial devotion, filial duty, for a few minutes struggled painfully with the fervid passion which shook her inmost soul; but they conquered, and when she looked up, her tears were checked, and only the deadly paleness of the cheek, the quivering of the lip and eye, betrayed the deep emotion that still prevailed within.
"Not to leave me, Cassy." "Just for a few minutes." "No." "But I want to cry by myself, besides looking after the dinner." "Cry here then, with me. Come, Cassandra, my wife! My God, I shall die with happiness." A mortal paleness overspread his face. "Desmond, Desmond, do you know how I love you?
"She is pretty yet," said Becky, loyally, but she was quite sure that whatever might have been Aunt Claudia's likeness to herself in the past, her own charms would not in the future shrink to fit Aunt Claudia's present pattern. It was unthinkable that her pink and white should fade to paleness, her slenderness to stiffness, her youthful radiance to a sort of weary cheerfulness.
It is lost in a settled red just as much as in a settled paleness, and neither the sculptor nor painter can do more than represent the circumstances of attitude and expression that accompany the blush.
"But he is dead," she murmured at length. "It seems so," he assented. She turned and faced him, a sudden paleness making her very lips white. "I have no right to let you show me this," she cried, in a voice thrilling with emotion. "My husband is alive. I never pretended to love him, but I am his wife. You must have seen him with Arthur Fenton Dr. Ashton." "Dr. Ashton!" he echoed, in bewilderment.
When alone with this remarkable young woman, Bruce found himself invariably tongue-tied. At the same hour, less than fifty miles away, Umballa stood before the opening of his elaborate tent, erected at sundown by the river's brink, and scowled at the moon. He saw no beauty in the translucent sky, in the silvery paleness of the world below.
'But let us rest under these trees, said the Count, observing the paleness of her countenance; 'here is a seat you are fatigued. They sat down, and the Count proceeded.
"Patience," said Amabel, whose cheek, as the other spoke, had returned to its original paleness "Patience," she said, gravely, but kindly, "I have suffered you to proceed too far without interruption, and must correct the very serious error into which you have fallen. I am so far from pining for an interview with the Earl of Rochester, that nothing in the world should induce me to see him again.
But no disorder could hide the fine warm bronze brown of her abundant hair, nor disguise the shape of her brows and eyes, though the eyes themselves lost something of their color from the paleness of her cheeks; nor did her weariness detract from the charm of her delicate upturned chin.
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