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"I couldn't do it!" she cried, choking. "I couldn't! I tried I tried so hard!" "Sweetheart", he whispered, in terror. "Don't let me do it!" she sobbed. "Oh, Thyrsis, you must save me!" He pressed her to his bosom, shuddering with dread, and trying to soothe her hysterical outburst. So, little by little, he dragged the story from her.
"No, no I'll keep the water!" she answered, panting. "You need both hands clear! Come!" Thus they turned, and, with a shuddering glance behind, started back for the tower again. But the obeah, with a whining plaint, spat away his tobacco-leaf. They heard a shuffle of feet. And, looking round again, both saw that he had crossed the little brook.
Sometimes walking with Julia, humbly dressed and mingling with the crowd, her head-dress arranged to hide her face as much as might be, she saw the rich lords of Rome go by in chariots, on horseback, in litters, all sorts and conditions of them, fat, proud men with bold eyes; hard-faced statesmen or lawyers; war-worn, cruel-looking captains; dissolute youths with foppish dress and perfumed hair, and shuddering, wondered whether she was appointed to any one of these.
There remained only, in invisible landscapes of flesh, marshes reddened by the fires of what sunset it was impossible to say, marshes shuddering under the divided shelter of the grasses.
While making this speech, M. d'Asterac had turned into the lane of the mandrakes, where we could see Mosaide's cottage, half hidden by foliage, when suddenly an appalling voice burst upon us and made my heart beat faster hoarse sounds, accompanied by a sharp gnashing, and on getting nearer the sounds seemed to be modulated, and each phrase ended in a sort of very feeble melody, which could not be listened to without shuddering.
It appealed only to the highest attributes and longings of the human soul, and under its sustaining influence frail women, men, and even children were able to endure tortures, of which we cannot read even now without shuddering horror. Nature's method of gardening is very beautiful.
But you must come and care for him, mother, for there are not enough nurses by half, and the men suffer so." "Where was he injured, Ignaee?" asked the Princess, shuddering. The boy hesitated. "Mother dear, it is pretty bad, but I have see it so much worse. He has lost his left arm." The Princess covered her eyes. "Oh, my dear, my dear!" she murmured. "How can I bear this for you?"
When the chambermaid was out on her errands and Cissie found a moment alone with Peter, she would tweak his ear or pull his cheek and provoke him to kiss her. Indeed, it was all the hot, shuddering little laundry-room could do to contain the gay and bubbling Cissie. Peter thought and thought, resignedly now, but persistently, how this strange happiness that belonged to them both could be.
But why did he leave so mysteriously?" "I don't know," replied Tom. "Captain Manly tried to find him; he wished to present him to General McElroy. He said he did not doubt that government would reward Long Hair for his services." "Well," sighed his mother, shuddering as she spoke, "how different these Indians are from us! They come and go so noiselessly, and talk so little!
Now and then the ghost of a woman glided up to Swann, murmured a few words in his ear, asked him to take her home, and left him shuddering. Anxiously he explored every one of these vaguely seen shapes, as though among the phantoms of the dead, in the realms of darkness, he had been searching for a lost Eurydice.
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