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"Janet, ain't that Billy's sail crossin' the bay?" she said. Janet came to the window. "Yes, it is," she faltered; "and he's going on!" "Well, what do you suppose? Ain't he got t' get back by sundown? 'T would be a pretty pass if he'd come off at sundown." "But he's been off all day, likely as not!" Janet's lip quivered. "Well, s'pose he has.
The earl, though he had not overheard the whispered sentences which passed between his daughters, had watched them closely, and his lip quivered with emotion as Isabel closed the door. "Come hither, my Anne," he said tenderly; "thou who hast thy mother's face, never hast a harsh thought for thy father."
Dutton's lip quivered again; but hearing a foot at the door, she made an effort to be composed, just as Admiral Bluewater entered. "I have run away from the bottle, Mrs. Dutton, to join you and your fair daughter, as I would run from an enemy of twice my force," he said, giving each lady a hand, in a manner so friendly, as to render the act more than gracious; for it was kind.
Shadows danced around the room, over the bier, across the dead man's face; and in the quick change of light and shadow it seemed to her that the rigid features became more living, that a mournful smile formed itself on the closed lips, that the tightly- shut eyelids quivered. A wild cry rang through the whole room. With a desperate shriek: "His eyes!
She had, alas! no longer power to comply with his request, and merciful Heaven! the fiend, in a moment of unbridled passion, made good his fearful promise. With one blow of a hatchet alas! it needed not a hard one he destroyed her. I caught the judge's eye as this announcement was made. It quivered, and his countenance was pale.
It ran up with his weight, tight as a bow-string, and swift as the arrow it speeds. He fell for five-and-thirty feet. There was a sudden jerk, a terrific convulsion of the limbs; and there he hung, with the open knife clenched in his stiffening hand. The old chimney quivered with the shock, but stood it bravely.
Her face was very pale, her lip quivered when she spoke, and there was an unnatural light in her eyes.
He sought to return it, but the sight of such emotion, trifling as it was, caused his heart to sink with indescribable fear; his lip quivered, as utterly to prevent the words he sought to speak, and as he clasped her to his bosom and bent his head on hers, a low yet instantly suppressed moan burst from him. "Nigel, dearest Nigel, what has chanced?
His voice quivered, but he added boastingly: "No fear of that! I'm too many for old Kay!" "But but why did you desert?" "Why?" he repeated. Then his face turned red and he burst out violently: "I'll tell you why. I lived in New York, but I thought the South was in the right.
But he never drew rein at the green gate in the hedge; as he was passing it the night that Pryor arrived, he had to turn aside to let the stage draw up. A man clambered out, and in the dull flash of the stage lanterns, William saw his face. "Lloyd?" some one said, in a low voice; it was Mrs. Richie, waiting for him inside the gate. William King's face quivered in the darkness. "That you, Nelly?"
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