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"But if you were in Miss Sackville's place, how would you feel? How would you face the truth?" She leant back in her chair and stared before her with big, rapt eyes, her fingers clasping and unclasping themselves on her knee. "There is only one way to look to God for help and courage. Pride and anger can never carry her through the long days and nights that will be so hard to bear.

And as for the outside world, why it won't mind a mite what you do. Why you can murder your grandmother and eat her, I expect, and the world'll manage to overlook it, if you're a genius." "I thank you," said Madame von Marwitz, her hand clasping and unclasping the door-knob. "I thank you indeed for your reassurance.

Saltash leaned back in his corner and smoked. His eyes went to and fro ceaselessly, yet the girl beside him was aware of a scrutiny as persistent as if they never left her. She sat in silence, clasping and unclasping her hands, staring downwards at the shining stage.

"Oh, no!" said the other, moving a little and unclasping his hand. Claude sat down on a boulder. "Is this heather?" he asked. "I thought I recognized it, from 'Kidnapped. This part of the world is not as new to you as it is to me." "No. I lived in Paris for several years when I was a student." "What were you studying?" "The violin." "You are a musician?" Claude looked at him wonderingly.

The cat had finished her toilet, and now, springing softly to the floor, went to the door and sniffed. He knelt beside her, and unclasping the garter held it for a moment in his hands. After a while he said: "There is a name engraved upon the silver clasp beneath the buckle. It is a pretty name, Sylvia Elven. Sylvia is a woman's name, Elven is the name of a town.

"Go on, Betty, do," urged Amy, her hands clasping and unclasping nervously. "Tell us what it was you heard." "Well, Major Adams was talking with the colonel," Betty complied, her color bright, "and I just happened to catch a couple of phrases as I passed. "'In a week! the major was saying eagerly. 'The boys will be glad of that, Colonel. I've had all I could do to keep them pacified at all.

She kept clasping and unclasping her hands. So a beggar feels who falls asleep on the pavement wet and hungry, and who wakes in a palace-hall with servants and lights, and a feast before him. Of course the beggar's is only a dream, and he wakes from it; and this was real. Gregory had said to her, "I will love you as long as I live." She said the words over and over to herself like a song.

Then Auntie Sue nervously crossed the room to lay the newspaper, which the Sheriff had given her, on the table beside her basket of sewing. Without speaking, Judy followed her, watching every movement intently. Turning to face her companion again, Auntie Sue stood, still speechless, clasping and unclasping her thin old hands.

"Kimber was right, and " "Kimber was inspired from here," he interjected sharply. She put her hand upon herself. "Do you think I would intrigue against you? Do you think I would stoop to intrigue?" she asked, a hand clasping and unclasping a bracelet on her wrist, her eyes averted, for very shame that he should think the thought he had uttered.

"You have a great deal of presence of mind, I believe, Miss Beulah? You are fortunate." "I thanked my stars that Antoinette was not in the carriage; for most certainly she would have made matters worse, by screaming like an idiot and jumping out. Beulah taught me common sense," answered Cornelia, unclasping a bracelet and tossing a handful of jewelry across the room to her dressing table.

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