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It all looks so funny; shall I lift you out to see?" But Kitty had buried her head under the clothes, and was sobbing quietly to herself. No mention was made of the Christmas tree in her prayers that morning, and the prayers themselves were very perfunctory indeed said more from the force of habit than because she had any faith in their efficacy.
Bolton's pot plants in the kitchen window. "Did you think I could be hard about such a thing as that? It was perfectly right. O Mrs. Bolton!" She stopped laughing and began to cry; she put away Mrs. Bolton's carefully offered hand, she threw herself upon the bony structure of her bosom, and buried her face sobbing in the leathery folds of her neck. Mrs.
The commissary, at the sight, stepped forward to protect his men, repeating in his cold voice: "In the name of the law! In the name of the law!" Thereupon La Normande threw herself upon a chair, and burst into a wild fit of hysterical sobbing at finding herself so powerless. She was quite at a loss to understand what these men wanted with her.
At nine o'clock on such a morning, the place of business of Pubsey and Co. was not the liveliest object even in Saint Mary Axe which is not a very lively spot with a sobbing gaslight in the counting-house window, and a burglarious stream of fog creeping in to strangle it through the keyhole of the main door.
Lots of us lots of us make that mistake! I I did; so so, Peter, I can't go with you!" She flung out the last phrase, and suddenly collapsed on the arm of her chair, sobbing. Peter was amazed. He got up, sat on the arm of his own chair next to hers and put his arms about her, bending over her, mothering her.
Across the water there came a faint but shrill sound of laughter. Some one was laughing, laughing, laughing, in the night. The Nubians stared at each other, the man who was stroke turning his head towards his companion. Faint cries followed the laughter, and then was it not the sound of a woman, somewhere sobbing dreadfully? Isaacson listened till it died away.
And he hated his gold sovereigns, as they lay with a broad smile of self-satisfaction all over their yellow faces. The queen was in the parlour, eating bread and honey. But at the second mouthful she burst out crying, and could not swallow it. The king heard her sobbing.
There were carriage wheels at the door. "Do you hear?" she said. Pauline opened great bewildered eyes and her features became pinched. Then turning rapidly, she hid her face in the pillow, sobbing convulsively. "Oh, Zulma, this is too much. Why did you do it? It must not be. Oh, let me die." She essayed to say more but tears choked her utterance.
He saw beyond it the mouth of the cave a space of actual blackness on the gloomy face of the cliff. He heard the water drop from the roof into the sea with heavy splashes. At his feet the long swell writhed between the walls of rock, reached up black lips and drew them down again with hollow, sobbing sound.
She looked at me with an expression of stupefaction, then buried her face in her hands: "He my intended! Has he ever dreamed of such a thing? Am I not a poor flower-girl?" And she was sobbing through her fingers. My nights were sweet at Carlsruhe. My slumber was ushered in with those delicious dream-sketches that lend their grace to folly.
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