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The engine was humming subduedly, and the driver and fireman were leaning out; the latter, a young man, eagerly watching two gentlemen who were standing before the first-class carriage, and the driver sharing his curiosity in an elderly, preoccupied manner. One of the persons thus observed was a slight, fair-haired man of about twenty-five, in the afternoon costume of a metropolitan dandy.
It was barbarically hung with banners, but it was not exactly a cheery place. At the far end logs burned in a great fireplace. Don Loris sat in a carved chair beside it; wizened and white-bearded, in a fur-trimmed velvet robe, with a peevish expression on his face. "My chieftain," said Thal subduedly, "here is the engineer from Walden."
Men laughed subduedly near him; he saw a face wrinkled with bitter mirth turned back, and he heard what was said. It was "Jumping Joan" that was being played the march consecrated to the burning of witches. He had heard it long ago, as a boy.... Then the rumour ran through the crowd, and spent itself at last in the corner where the priest stood trembling with wrath and pity. "She is in the hall."
I wander objectlessly, pleasurelessly about with Vick apparently sharing my depression trotting subduedly, with tail half-mast high, at my heels, and at length sit down on a bench under a mulberry-tree.
But he continued: "And if they think you try to stand on your legs and walk with the feet of manhood, why, there isn't a blooming father and lover among them but will do his best to get you down and suffocate you either with a baby's napkin or a woman's petticoat." Lilly's lips were curling; he was dark and bitter. "Ay, it is like that," said Aaron, rather subduedly.
Again, I love thee, golden girl; but, forget it not, I worship Dolores as I worship my gods!" "Then wilt thou not seek her power for thyself?" whispered the girl subduedly, awed for the moment by his tremendous and solemn earnestness. "Little one, bring Sancho as she bade thee. He has merited punishment. Yet tell him the Sultana will be just. His punishment will but fit the fault.
What sort of a passage did you have coming over? Maisie was crying more subduedly, for the first time in her life glad that she had something to lean against. Dick patted her on the shoulder tenderly but clumsily, for he was not quite sure where her shoulder might be. She drew herself out of his arms at last and waited, trembling and most unhappy.
She sat near the strange man. He seemed so still and remote so fascinating. "Give me your hand," she said to him, subduedly. He took her cold hand in his warm, living grasp. She wept more bitterly. He noticed at last. "Why are you crying?" he said. "I don't know," she replied, rather matter-of-fact, through her tears.
Don Pedro mounted with a quick step, and was followed by his comrades at a more moderate pace, but without the least hesitation. Boyga, unconscious of his situation and destiny, was carried up in a chair, and seated beneath the rope prepared for him. Gilbert, Montenegro, Garcia and Castillo all smiled subduedly as they took their stations on the platform. Soon after Capt.
They met something less than a score of them, with two or three of their most trusted advisers in one of the general offices of the Presidency, sitting in leather chairs along its walls, with a sort of central skylight illuminating subduedly the anxiety of their silent faces.
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