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Miss Pilbeam rose. "No, don't go," she said, hastily. "Do be quiet. I want to think." Captain Bligh waited in respectful silence, heedless of the fateful seconds ticking from the mantelpiece. At the sound of a slow, measured footfall on the cobblestone path outside Miss Pilbeam caught his arm and drew him towards the door. "Go!" she breathed. "No, stop!"
His countenance wore a look of deadly ferocity, and it was evident that he had died as a brave man should, with his face to the foe. The Taranteens, after the first burst of feeling, looked on in gloomy silence, and began to cast glances of distrust and apprehension around. The scalp-lock of Pieskaret was untouched. He had fallen then in no conflict with Indians.
At that moment she heard a voice in her soul, and this voice said to her, "Yes, I have something to say to you, when you stop your shouting." From this experience Miss Royden learned to see the tremendous difference between physical and spiritual silence.
This speech, in which every sentence struck its stinging satire into one or other of the listeners, was succeeded by an awkward silence, which Montagu was the first to break. "Pardieu!" he said, "when did Lord Hastings leave us, and what fair face can have lured the truant?" "He left us suddenly on the archery-ground," answered the young Lovell.
The maids had simpered their timid "Good-night, sir," and were to bed. Nevertheless, the Count still sat imperturbable and silent. A silence of frowns, of eloquence on the simmer; a silence that was almost a menace. This enough for any man of adventure to know that he is in for a good time in for something big.
"Yes, and so I shall; but I'm pressed to death just now After a bit " "You are so different!" Cicily said, almost timidly, as his voice trailed into silence. "Sometimes, I think I fear " Her voice, in turn, died. For the moment, the husband was moved to a sudden tenderness. He spoke softly, earnestly, leaning toward her.
Now, however, there was a longer silence than before, only broken occasionally by low moans; but suddenly, as Charles was thinking of again speaking, he uttered some more disjointed sentences. "No harm," he said, "no harm, Marchdale is a villain! Not a hair of his head injured no, no. Set him free yes, I will set him free. Beware! beware, Marchdale! and you Mortimer.
"And did you never doubt me during all this long silence?" he asked of his happy wife a few days after his return. "Never," said Mary firmly, and then added in a more playful manner "if I should step into the confessor's chair, could you answer as boldly?" "I can, Mary though I never received a line from you, it never occurred to me to fear any change in your affection.
Some pealed with a loud, sweet chant of voices that were more than human; and some rolled along in the slow thunder of a million drums. They passed; their notes were lost in dying echoes; and the silence once more pressed in upon me and overcame me. The strength within me began to fail. I felt my life ebbing at its springs. Death drew near to me and his shape was Silence.
He had listened in silence; only she heard his breath coming hard, and, a moment after she had finished, he spoke: "No you cannot die not thus. I have died once, yet I live. Listen!
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