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Curious that he should care what this little Hindu maid was like, but he did. His hand now clasped the girl's wrist, it almost hurt in its tenseness. "Yes, Gulab," and he subdued his voice, "tell me if you know." "They are dead upon the road beyond where you saved Bootea." "Why didn't you tell me this before?" "It was too late, Sahib; and if you had gone there they would have killed you." "Who?"
Such distinction as he had was from a sort of intellectual tenseness which showed rather in the gaunt forms of his face than in the gray eyes, heavily lashed above and below, and looking serious but dull with their rank, black brows.
They would not hazard an investigation, though to lose the girl now, at the very threshold of his exultant realization, would be like taking the earth from under Brokaw's feet. In spite of the tenseness of the situation David found himself chuckling with satisfaction.
He was answered a moment later, for an orderly arrived with instructions to the air service boys to report at their hangars at once. There they were told something of the impending attack the first public mention of it, though more than one had guessed something unusual was in the air from the tenseness of the last few days.
His eyes glittered brightly and there was a hint of nervousness in the tenseness of his lower lip. Doran went out. Richard closed the door and turned to face the company. Mr. Torrington leaned forward and as though by accident twitched down the table lamp shade that the light might be thrown on the newcomer's face. Lord Almont gasped and even Cassis was startled by the phenomenal likeness. Mr.
"Your folks have disinherited you, you have almost nothing, and I will not change my mind. What do you see ahead of you?" "Jim only Jim and God." Her eyes were shining, her hands were clasped together at her side in the tenseness of her feeling, her indomitable spirit spoke in her face. Suddenly the old man brought his fist down on the table with a bang.
If I could, my very touch should turn the sap of this maple into vinegar. To-day I've only tried to show how I can work for you. I am eager to begin again, and for life." At first Sue had tried to withdraw her hand, but its tenseness relaxed. As he spoke, she turned her averted face slowly toward him, and the rays of the setting sun flashed a deeper crimson into her cheeks.
"It does make a difference to me that he loves me," confessed the girl. "It is not easy to turn away from him," she said, still standing, and looking taller than ever, and even thin, with a curious tenseness of her whole being. "It is something that I have found it hard to fight against, but it is not my whole self longing for his love and his companionship.
For three weeks Lily did not see Louis Akers, nor did she go back to the house on Cardew Way. She hated doing clandestine or forbidden things, and she was, too, determined to add nothing to the tenseness she began to realize existed at home.
In it lay what may be called the linguistic peculiarity of the heath; and being audible nowhere on earth off a heath, it afforded a shadow of reason for the woman's tenseness, which continued as unbroken as ever. Throughout the blowing of these plaintive November winds that note bore a great resemblance to the ruins of human song which remain to the throat of fourscore and ten.
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