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"Cruel, cruel Wallace!" at last cried she, clinging to him, for he had once or twice attempted to disengage himself, and reseat her on the bench; "your heart is steeled, or it would understand mine. It would at least pity the wretchedness it has created. But I am despised, and I can yet find the watery grave from which you rescued me." To dissemble longer would have been folly.
At the same time she saw that she had given her daughter a momentary advantage. Margaret did not reseat herself after handing her mother the fan she remained standing, a pale, slender figure, somewhat impressive in the shadows of the half-darkened room, with hands clasped and head slightly lifted as if in solemn protest. "Mamma," she began, in a somewhat subdued voice, "I must tell you. Mr.
'Oh yes, replied Mutimer, scarcely looking at Hubert, and making an idle effort at a bow. Hubert did not reseat himself. He took leave of Stella cordially; to Adela he inclined himself at respectful distance. Mrs. Westlake supplied conversation. Adela, leaving her former chair, took a seat by her friend's side, but could not as yet trust her voice.
With what an air of the drawing-room did he of the velvet coat help the singer into the cart, and with what elegant abandon and ultra-dilettantism did he light a cigarette, reseat himself at the piano, and weave Scots ballads into a charming impromptu!
The face was undoubtedly sweet sweet with a radiance which surprised and partly fascinated Miss Ravenscroft. "Your name?" she said. "Kathleen O'Hara," replied Kathleen. She rose to her feet and dropped a little bobbing curtsy, then waited to be asked to sit down again. Miss Ravenscroft did not invite her to reseat herself.
He held his ground, however, though he saw that he had various rivals for the right of speech. He held his ground, and was instantly aware that he had gained his point. There was a slight pause, and as some other urgent member did not reseat himself, Phineas heard the president of that august assembly call upon himself to address the House. The thing was now to be done.
And, grasping Natalie's hands with an imploring expression, he constrained the young maiden, almost against her will, to remain and reseat herself upon the grassy bank before which he knelt. As he looked up to her with those glowing, passionate glances, a maiden fear and trembling for the first time came over her, an anxiety and timidity inexplicable to herself!
Do you think I have not calculate', that I shall make a failure of my little enterprise?" "Bah!" "Will monsieur not reseat himself?" M. Beaucaire made a low bow. "So. We must not be too tire' for Lady Malbourne's rout. Ha, ha! And you, Jean, Victor, and you others, retire; go in the hallway. Attend at the entrance, Francois. So; now we shall talk. Monsieur, I wish you to think very cool.
That which I shall propose to you is for your welfare, here and hereafter, even though it may not at first seem to you to be agreeable." "What is it, aunt?" said Linda, jumping up quickly from her seat. "Sit down, my child, and I will tell you." But Linda did not reseat herself at once.
Tranquillize your nerves, reseat yourself, and listen, reseat yourself, I say." Louvier dropped into his chair. "No," resumed the Vicomte, politely, "I do not come here to insult you, neither do I come to ask money; I assume that I am in my rights when I ask Monsieur Louvier what has become of Louise Duval?" "Louise Duval! I know nothing about her."
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