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"Looking for something," came back his wife's muffled tones. A long wait. "Can I help?" "I've got it!" cried Emma, and emerged triumphant, flushed, smiling, holding a garment at arm's length, aloft. "What " Emma shook it smartly, turned it this way and that, held it up under her chin by the sleeves. "Why, girl!" exclaimed Buck, all a-grin, "it's the "
"Love is that Power which clasps the things of eternity and makes them all its own," said the Voice in stronger tones of deeper music "It builds its solar system, its stars, its planets with a thought! it wakes all beauty, all delight with a smile! it lives not only now, but for ever, in a heaven of pure joy where every thousand years is but one summer day!
But Mabel, and Lucy too, read all sorts of implications. His lowered tones, his frequency, his persistence "My dear, he caresses you with his eyes. You know he does," Mabel used to say. Lucy wondered whether he really did, and ended by supposing it.
All Heaven's blessings be hers! Thus did soft melodies flow through his heart; tones of an infinite gratitude; sweetest intimations that he also was a man, that for him also unutterable joys had been provided.
At the same time, we are resolved to fight for our lives, should your people attempt to molest us." "You indeed speak boldly," said the chief. "But I will endeavour to prevent further mischief, and will tell my people all you have said." Almost immediately afterwards the braves came hurrying back to the camp, when the old squaws commenced in screeching tones to tell them what had occurred.
Starr was human; I have reminded you several times how perfectly human he was. He immediately disliked that man. When he heard faintly the tones of Helen May's laugh, he disliked the man more. He got down, with his head and his arms the left one was lame in the biceps above a rock.
"They can take me to no place," she said, gently, "which I shall think of as I think of the place where you found me. They can take me to no dearer friend than the friend who saved my life." There was a moment's silence between them. "We have been very happy here," he went on, in lower and lower tones. "You won't forget me when we have said good-by?"
Her tone was indignant; the colour was flaming in her cheeks. "I know that Stretton is not his name. My father told me so." There was a pause, and then Percival went on, in a low voice, but with a gathering intensity which made it more impressive than his louder tones. "I'll tell you what I should do if I were my father.
Never before had he seen him give way to his feelings, or speak in such loud, almost fierce tones. The soldier remained at a respectful distance, until the Huron turned his head and told him to approach. "Dis my son Niniotan," said he. "He go wid us." "I am glad of his company I am sure. Did you expect to meet him in this place?"
Before the tones had died away, three persons appeared upon the scaffold, a woman, pinioned and wearing a long, sharp, snowy, shrowdy, death-cap; a man in loose black robes with a white neckhandkerchief, and a burly, surly fellow, in black cloth, bareheaded, and having a curling jetty beard around his heavy jaws. It is but a moment, that, standing on tiptoe, you catch this scene.
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