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The white lady, whiter now than lilies, stood with her arm about her father, her eyes shining; and he, poor man, trembled in an ague of love and pity and despair and triumph, with a rapt, grief-stricken face, his shoulders heaving to the repressed sob, as if nature would there make an end of him under this torrent of delight and pain. Arthur writhed in secret humiliation.
"Come to your Papa at once, please!" said she with a strange, excited look. "A misfortune... about Peter Ilynich... a letter," she finished with a sob. Besides a feeling of aloofness from everybody Natasha was feeling a special estrangement from the members of her own family.
"Tst! tst! little love!" she cried, gulping down a sob, due to her own sad memories, and moving the cloak more tenderly than the woman in whose arms the child lay. "What a pair of dark eyes, then! Is't a boy or girl, m'm?"
He got up unsteadily and put a gentle hand upon her shoulder. "Why, Betty I I " A dry sob interrupted him. He pulled himself together and forced his voice to a tone of confidence. "Just be a little patient, dear. I'm sure things will be better with us, soon.
"What I'd do, in your place, would be to go and put on something that ain't all smoked and scorched like a a ham, and then I'd sit up and drink some tea, and be nice about it. But, of course, if you want to cash in " Val gave a sob. "I can't help it I'd just as soon be dead as alive. It was bad enough before and now everything's burned up and all Manley's nice ha-ay "
In my heart I liked ye fine even when I was the angriest." "Wheesht, wheesht!" cried Alan. "Dinna say that! David man, ye ken " He shut his mouth upon a sob. "Let me get my arm about ye," he continued; "that's the way! Now lean upon me hard. Gude kens where there's a house! We're in Balwhidder, too; there should be no want of houses, no, nor friends' houses here. Do ye gang easier so, Davie?"
She raised her dark eyes to his, and answered him with a sob that told him why. Sitting beside him with her head on his shoulder, she told him how that morning she had accompanied a party of native women to a village some miles distant on a fishing excursion, and knew nothing of the ship till she was returning and met Sergeant Matthews.
They were no murderers.... They did not strike in the dark shoot a man from ambush nor kill a man unarmed.... And Kenset Kenset of the foothills what had he said about the stain of blood blood-guilt clean hands The girl caught her breath with a choking sob. The game was up. Neither Jim Last nor Kenset nor she would shoot a man unarmed. And Courtrey was riding toward the Bottle Neck.
'People may not care to shelter the daughter of of one suspected of robbery and almost murder. The girl's head sank lower still and a convulsive sob shook her frame; but she controlled herself with a brave effort of will and sat immovable. Monk's horse was nosing in the bucket under the tap of the tank, and Harry stooped and turned the tap.
Furnival did not wish to send for his wife, because by doing so he would have laid bare his sore before his servants. He could not follow her, because he knew that he should not find her alone in her room. Nor did he wish for any further parley, because he knew that she would speak loud, and probably sob nay, very possibly proceed to a fainting fit.
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