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The financier's keen eyes looked piercingly from one to the other, and he said curtly: "I have nothing to say to this man, but for your sake, all right. Come up to the library." Once in the room and the door closed the doctor sank listlessly into a chair, seeing nothing, hearing nothing. His deep, sunken, bloodshot eyes were turned within. The outer world no longer made any impression.
The Delegato looked piercingly at Michael. Michael was silent. "You have always been silent. Is not the moment come to speak?" Michael shook his head. The Delegato bowed. "I came to ask you to discuss the affair openly," he said, "to relieve my perplexity as a matter of courtesy. But you will not speak. Then I will speak instead.
"Wait!... Oh, WAIT!" cried Joan. The passion of that moment, the consciousness of its fateful portent and her situation, as desperate as Cleve's, gave her voice a singularly high and piercingly sweet intensity. She glided from behind the blanket out of the shadow into the glare of the lanterns to face Kells and Cleve.
"Jorth wouldn't do such a hell-bent trick." "It's shore done." "Wal, mebbe the hogs won't find Guy an' Jacobs," returned Blaisdell, weakly. Plain it was that he only hoped for such a contingency and certainly doubted it. "Look!" cried Esther Isbel, piercingly. "They're workin' straight up the pasture!" Indeed, to Jean it appeared to be the fatal truth. He looked blankly, feeling a little sick.
He stopped at once at sight of her. He had been walking up and down, with an exceedingly surprised and perplexed face; and now he stood with his great, Saxon-blue eyes piercingly fixed upon the young person in velveteen, whose jacket and trousers told one story, and whose streaming dark hair told quite another.
"I expect one you had when you were three years old, and your mother stuck it up in the attic to keep till you're dead, or sumpthing!" "It's not either any toy horn," Roddy insisted. "It's a reg'lar horn for a band, and I could have it as easy as anything." The tone of this declaration was so sincere that it roused the lethargic Penrod. "Roddy, is that true?" he sat up to inquire piercingly.
Ursus felt a kind of shock, looked at him fixedly for a few minutes, and said, "Then you are frightful." The interior of the caravan, on the previous night, had been so dark that Ursus had not yet seen the boy's face. The broad daylight revealed it. He placed the palms of his hands on the two shoulders of the boy, and, examining his countenance more and more piercingly, exclaimed,
He could sleep but little through that night for thinking about the promised return to his mother on the next day, and for the dread he felt lest Mr. Sharp had forgotten, or would disregard his promise. The bright morning of another new year at length arose, clear and piercingly cold, and Henry crept early from his bed, and went down stairs to make the fires as usual. When Mr.
The king was silent, and walked thoughtfully to and fro, with clouded brow, then remained standing before Pollnitz, and looked sharply and piercingly at him. "You rejoice," he said, coldly, "but you only think of your own advantage. You are indifferent to the sorrow we are preparing for my brother. You only think that your debts will be paid.
Prince Andrew rode up and was just putting his question to a soldier when his attention was diverted by the desperate shrieks of the woman in the vehicle. An officer in charge of transport was beating the soldier who was driving the woman's vehicle for trying to get ahead of others, and the strokes of his whip fell on the apron of the equipage. The woman screamed piercingly.
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