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Sylvia listened, straining her swollen eyes to see her sister's face, wiping away the tears which ran incessantly down her pale, grimy cheeks, repressing her sobs to listen, although they broke out in one burst after another.
Her hand was pressed against her breast, as if she were repressing an inward voice which claimed her attention. Leaning her head against her chair, she had quite pushed out her comb, her hair dropped on her shoulder, and looked like a brown, coiled serpent. Veronica, who had been silently observing her, rose from the sofa, picked up the comb, and fastened her hair, without speaking.
He could have borne them both easier than the silent anguish of her face. He feared the results of the emotion she was repressing so rigidly. There was a long silence. Henri came in once and Diana roused herself to ask for Gaston, and then relapsed into silent watchfulness again. She sighed once, a long quivering sigh that nearly broke Saint Hubert's heart.
"It's like the enchanted carpet, isn't it, Miss Powers?" she said, as they slid through a thick grove and then out into the sunshine again. "What is? what carpet?" asked Miss Powers, looking down at the floor of the car. "Oh, not a real carpet," said Patty, politely repressing a smile at the elder lady's ignorance of fairy-lore.
Ruth looked thoughtfully at him as they entered the house, and then sternly repressing the pleased smile that flitted over her face said with assumed indifference: "I hope that's a compliment, but how can you expect me to remember the rhymes of my childhood?" The days went by so fast that Ruth could hardly keep the run of the calendar.
But each spirit held back the fear by which it was burdened and the eyes turned wearily again from the open window. At last, Fanny's heavy heart could bear in silence the pressure no longer. Hiding her face in her mother's lap, she sobbed out violently. Repressing her own struggling emotions, Mrs.
The king, his father, for the prince's sake, dwelt purely in his palace, practising every virtue; delighting in the teaching of the true law, he put away from him every evil companion, that his heart might not be polluted by lust; regarding inordinate desire as poison, keeping his passion and his body in due control, destroying and repressing all trivial thoughts; desiring to enjoy virtuous conversation, loving instruction fit to subdue the hearts of men, aiming to accomplish the conversion of unbelievers; removing all schemes of opposition from whatever source they came by the enlightening power of his doctrine, aiming to save the entire world; thus he desired that the body of people should obtain rest; even as we desire to give peace to our children, so did he long to give rest to the world.
She was reading a child's simple story-book, and looked up as she spoke. Her eyes were wide open and full of questions. "What, my dear?" asked Mrs. Dinneford, repressing her feelings and trying to keep her voice calm. "There's something I can't understand, mother." She looked down at herself, then about the room. Her manner was becoming nervous. "What can't you understand?"
When leaving he said that in all probability he would return this way a few weeks later. So, my friend, he may be here any day, for it is a good long while since he left. "Repressing my eagerness this time, I sat still for a few minutes, then said: "'I think it is certain from what you have told me that the wounded man was the one I am now seeking.
Its hereditary features, the numerous ways in which it may be communicated outside of the performance of the sexual act, and the careful way in which it is kept from the sanitary authorities render it a scourge which, at the present day, we seem to have no method of successfully repressing. Modern Mortality from Infectious Diseases.
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