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"Will you speak up?" queried Brice, sickened at the sight, but steeling himself with the knowledge of the captive's crimes and of the vast amount at stake. Roke rolled his eyes horribly, grinding his yellowed teeth together to check his own cries. Then, sobbingly, he blurted: "Yes! Lemme loose!" "Not till you tell," refused Gavin. "Quick, now!"
"Edna, it is useless to tell you how devotedly I love you, for you have known that for years; and yet you have shown my love no mercy. But perhaps if you could realize how much I need your help in my holy work, how much more good I could accomplish in the world if you were with me, you might listen, without steeling yourself against me, as you have so long done. Can you, will you trust me fully?
The dreadful steeling of her will at the very verge of swooning abysses gave an edge to her voice. She tried to dull it, to speak very quietly and mildly, as she said: 'I must have all the facts of the case before me, then. I confess I hadn't suspected it was a case. 'Which means that you'd never dreamed I could fall in love with Miss Jakes. Gerald's tone was a little rueful.
He had an unspeakable dread of her learning the truth about the letters, yet could not be sure of steeling himself against the suicidal impulse of avowal. His very soul was parched for sympathy; he thirsted for a voice of pity and comprehension. But would his wife pity? Would she understand? Again he found himself brought up abruptly against his incredible ignorance of her nature.
And these two children: which is mine?" To the king of Jugendheit the ceiling reeled and the floor revolved under his feet. "Villain, what have you to say? What was your purpose?" How many years, thought Herbeck, had he been preparing for this moment? How long had he been steeling his heart against this very scene? Futile dream! He drew himself together with a supreme effort.
Sally Howland had been steeling herself against "growing fond of things" and that very repression made her its victim; Shirley Duncan defied these conditions and was punished with a "true case" of the epidemic called Environment. So that both now seemed all but helpless at the crisis.
I thought she avoided Kennedy's eye, and I am sure that her intuition told her that he had some revelation to make, against which she was steeling herself. Craig greeted her as reassuringly as he could, but as she sat nervously before us, I could see that she was in reality pale, worn, and anxious.
Miss Sally sat stiffly in her chair, steeling herself to refuse the request to buy a copy of the book.
Accordingly, smothering personal feeling and steeling myself to look only at my duty, I advanced to his side, and, indicating with a gesture the garments he was now rolling up into a compact mass, remarked: "This may or may not involve you in some unpleasantness. Rhoda Colwell, who evidently attaches much importance to her discoveries, is not the woman to keep silent in their regard.
"Well, of all the Say, wot do you think " "All right!" Sharply, bravely, though inwardly steeling himself for catastrophe, the lad counted, "One! Two! Again he won. "Oh, go on!" sputtered Iowa, through gritting teeth. And the boy resumed. "Hit the key a sharp rap! Pretty good. Now, two raps, one right after the other. Good. "Now, those are what we call 'dots. Remember.
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