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You're loafing about, and not a drop of water do you fetch me, and there's no wood am I to feed you for nothing, and you worrying me into the bargain? She hit harder. At last he tore himself away, jumped out by the window, and shouted back at her with a tear-choked voice: 'May your paws rot off to the elbows, you dog of a mother!
She put out a hand, as though to ward off a blow, and her face flushed, an instant. "Armand, my dear " she began. I turned my back and walked toward the window. Then, there came the rustle of silk behind me a soft arm was flung about my neck, and a tear-choked voice exclaimed: "Haven't you one kind word for me, dear?" I reached up and put her arm sharply aside.
Beverly looked on in wonder as these strange men bade farewell to their leader. Many of them were weeping, and most of them kissed his hand. There were broken sentences, tear-choked promises, anxious inquiries, and the parting was over. "Where are they going?" Beverly whispered, as they moved away in the dusk. "Back into the mountains to starve, poor fellows.
Dearest friend, had you seen your glorification in our faces, heard it in our tear-choked voices, at that moment you would have forgotten even your betrothed; you would have envied no happy mortal under the sun. Heaven has strangely brought us together, but in our friendship it shall have wrought a miracle.
I believe I could love you for ever; but even so, it wouldn't be right. You couldn't go on loving me. I am too old, too tired, too desillusione, perhaps too selfish." "I will love you always!" said girl Nicolete. "Whereas you," I continued, disregarding the lovely refrain of her tear-choked voice, "are standing on the wonderful threshold of life, waiting in dreamland for the dawn.
"Amen" rolled from a hundred tear-choked throats, like the distant murmuring of the sea. Hopkins sat down, saying no more. Minister Graves had sunk into his chair, and on the girl's last words the congregation drew a long, gasping breath. The eyes of the babe gazed steadily on into the shadows of eternal silence; the water seemingly unfelt upon its head.
She submitted to Betty's caresses, and went away to bed with her, saying good-night to Cecil in a tear-choked voice; and a moment later Cecil sought his own chamber, lighted a pipe, and gave himself up to delightful visions of Betty, protected from several Prussian army-corps by the single might of his strong right arm.
It was piteous to hear him sobbing, his head upon his raised arm, his whole frame quivering with emotion. I had never seen any one weep like that before. So I sat dumb, trying in vain to answer this bewildering self-accusation. At last there came out of the folds of the chair the words, faint and tear-choked: "You have promised me secrecy, and you will keep your word; but you will hate me."
Both gentlemen held their breath, and quite distinctly could be heard within the wailing, tear-choked voice of the Prince: "It is impossible it is impossible. I can not. No, I can not. The sacrifice is too heavy! My heart will break!" "Hear him well," whispered Müller, amid his tears; "he can not make the sacrifice. He will die of grief. My God! go to him, baron.
He patted the shoulder softly, put both arms around the bony neck, and pressed his face against the face of Dexter. A moment he stood thus, then spoke in a tear-choked voice: "Good-by, old pal the best, the truest pal a man ever had. You and me has seen some tough times, old pard; but you've allus brought me through without a scratch; allus brought me through."
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