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He himself, in consequence, took to thinking about it more consecutively; and just as his friends ceased to urge him to write, he sat down in earnest to begin. The vision that had come to him had no likeness to any of his earlier imaginings. Two or three subjects had haunted him, pleading for expression, during the first years of his marriage; but these now seemed either too lyrical or too tragic.
"Good-bye, Amaryllis " He could not bring himself to say the usual conventionalities, and went towards the door with nothing more. Her brain was clearing, terror and passion and uncertainty had come in like a flood. "Denzil ?" He turned to her side fearfully. Why had she called him now? "Denzil ?" her face had paled still further, and there was an anguish of pleading in it.
A strange place for a prayer meeting, indeed; but they were as near the great heart of God as though they had been in His grandest cathedral, and the answer to their earnest pleading was already on its way. When the two young heroes leaped into the water, there had at first been great confusion on board the Mic-Mac, but a minute or two later the captain's gruff voice was heard roaring out orders.
"Come on, old man," he said, and started for the door. But Prince hung back, ears drooped, eyes pleading. "Come on, sir!" He pretended not to understand. He sat down on his haunches. He lay down humbly on the floor, head between his paws, tail dragging contritely across the rag rug. He showed decided symptoms of an intention to crawl under the bed, and Jim started grimly toward him.
Now Molly had sought her mother early and spoken up. God knows to what you will drive her yet: for she has taken an oath under heaven to marry the first man who offers, and she is capable of it, if you will not be sensible." Which was just the last thing Hetty would have forbidden her to tell, yet just the last thing Hetty would have told, had she been pleading for Molly.
Some one has stolen it!" he stammered. The Wolf snarled. "Oh, no, good Adolph!" he said silkily. "Look again." Adolph, with fingers that shook, turned his pockets out one by one, then looked into the Wolf's yellow eyes with a gaze pleading yet sullen. "They are gone," he said huskily. With a flashing motion the Wolf reached across the table and clutched Adolph by the throat.
As Henrietta looked into it a sudden vision came to her of the long procession of men and women who had passed through that office, stricken and fearful, their desperate eyes pleading with that one pale face for help, and a lump came in her throat. She coughed before she could speak.
The same difficulty had already presented itself to Kenric, who felt indeed that he would rather have cut off his own hand than pass that sentence upon his friend. He looked at Allan with pleading eyes. "Allan," he said, "how can you forgive me for this that I have done? And how can I now help you out of this miserable dog's work?
Wagg and asking what that effectually compromised gentleman was going to do about it. He needed Mr. Wagg. He thought of pleading that the summer landscape was so much different from the winter lay of the land, when the snow was heaped in the gullies and on the hills, that he was bothered in remembering just where he had planted the treasure that night; he reflected that he might show Mr.
"I was unable to prevent it, is a better way of phrasing it," I replied, still gently. "But you tried to prevent it?" There was an emphasis on the "tried," and a pleading little note in her voice. "Oh, but you didn't," she hurried on, divining my answer. "But why didn't you?" I shrugged my shoulders.
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