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Miss Royle gave Thomas a worried stare. He, in turn, fixed her with a look of alarm. So much Gwendolyn saw before she flung herself down again, sobbing aloud, but tearlessly, her cheek upon the rug. She heard Miss Royle rustle toward the school-room; heard Thomas close the door leading into the hall. There were times the nursery had seen a few when the trio found it well to let her severely alone.
She spoke in low, measured tones, calmly, tearlessly. "But, foolish girl, isn't Linares a thousand times better than " "While he lived, I could have married I thought of running away afterwards my father wants only the relationship! But now that he is dead, no other man shall call me wife!
Cleopatra had watched his last breath, closed his eyes, and then thrown herself tearlessly on her lover's body. At last she fainted, and lay unconscious with her head upon his marble breast. The private secretary had witnessed all this, and then returned with tearful eyes to the second story.
Kate dropped on her bed and cried into her pillow, as she never had cried before about anything. It was not ALL about the hat. While she was at it, she shed a few tears about every cruel thing that had happened to her since she could remember that she had borne tearlessly at the time. It was a deluge that left her breathless and exhausted.
When Willie Connor's kit came home she told me tearlessly about the heartrending consignment. Now and then she spoke of him with a proud look in her eyes. She was one of the women of England who had the privilege of being the wife of a hero. In this world one must pay for everything worth having. Her widowhood was the price. All the tears of a lifetime could not bring him back.
Cleopatra had watched his last breath, closed his eyes, and then thrown herself tearlessly on her lover's body. At last she fainted, and lay unconscious with her head upon his marble breast. The private secretary had witnessed all this, and then returned with tearful eyes to the second story.
What thorns and briers, what flints, he strewed in the path of feet not inured to rough travel! He watched tearlessly ordeals that he exacted should be passed through fearlessly. He followed footprints that, as they approached the bourne, were sometimes marked in blood followed them grimly, holding the austerest police-watch over the pain-pressed pilgrim.
Piper's wheel-chair stood empty in the twilight Knapp let himself down in it with screwed face. For a time he whimpered tearlessly. He was too weak to weep, and not strong enough to contain himself. The Parson bent over him. "Your heroism has not been in vain, my brave fellow," he said. "But for you Lord Nelson would be now in the hands of the French." "Blast Nelson!" snarled the little rifleman.
The old woman, who had spoken tearlessly, as from a dead, tearless heart, of the worst essentials of her tragedy, was caught by a sob at something in this memory of the ship at the Nore why, Heaven knows! and her voice broke over it.
Yet she succeeded controlling herself, and, without a word reply, preceded the harsh man into the sleeping room and silently, tearlessly, pointed the chest. When he had taken out the money, she bowed hastily and ran down the stairs.
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