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She used to betake herself to the Tricon's with the ease born of use, just as the poor go to the pawnshop. But as she left her own chamber Nana came suddenly upon Georges standing in the middle of the drawing room. Not noticing his waxen pallor and the somber fire in his wide eyes, she gave a sigh of relief. "Ah, you've come from your brother." "No," said the lad, growing yet paler.
Especially," she added lightly, "with you at the bridle!" "Few riders could have kept their seats so well," he answered, with ill-concealed admiration. "I have always been accustomed to horses. In Australia we ride a great deal." "For the instant," his face slightly paler, "I thought something would happen." "It might have," she returned, a light in her eyes, "but for a timely hand.
But how is it that you remember this case and forget the other one in which you asked me what I thought of the loyalty of Metius Modestus?" As you know, he is always pale, but he grew perceptibly paler at this thrust. Then he stammered out, "I put the question not to damage you but Modestus."
"I'll not have a pack of children about the house playing scales and singing their Do, Re, Mi, till my head is fit to split. You'll remember, Miss, that this is my house, and that you are living on my money, and behave yourself." "Mamma," said Janetta, steadily, advancing a step nearer, and turning a shade paler than she had been before, "please think what you are saying.
From the interior the opening made a vivid square of blue sky; for long hours the blue increased in brilliancy, after which, veiled in a greyer haze of heat, the patch of sky grew gradually paler, and then clear; the suggestion of immeasurable space deepened; above the dark hole of the ice house the illimitable distance was appalling.
When her lover turned and looked at her, and his eye met hers as she sat there paler and whiter than any one in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her, he saw, by that power of quick perception which is given to those whose souls are one, that she knew behind which door crouched the tiger, and behind which stood the lady. He had expected her to know it.
He aimlessly picked up his pipe and laid it down again. He was paler than before, but he said no single word. "You think your reasons for holding aloof from her are the reasons of a man." Mr. Penzance's voice sounded to him remote. "They are the reasons of a man's pride but that is not the strongest thing in the world. It only imagines it is.
He could not turn back now; he must know. He saw her grow paler as he looked at her, standing so close that his face was bent down almost over her bent head. He felt that her secret, nay, the crown of life itself, was within his grasp if he did not fail now. "Why?" he asked still again, hardly conscious that he said it, and yet determined that he would win an answer at whatever cost.
Through the opening in the trees, they would see the slow running Souris, on which the sunshine glinted, making its easy way to join its elder brother, the Assiniboine, on the long, long march to the sea. Across the river plumy willows, pale green and tremulous, grew paler still as a wind passed over them.
Perhaps you will be able to tell me the identity of the rather elderly, ordinary-looking man with whom I have seen her several times lately?" It seemed to Hayden that Bea's face grew a shade paler, but his momentary apprehension gave way to a swift admiration for her poise, the casual and careless indifference with which she answered: "I am sure I can't imagine, Mrs. Ames.
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