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Slowly he retreated backwards, and would have fallen down the unclosed trap-hole had not one of the Kaffirs pushed him away. Back he went, still back, till he struck the further wall and stood there, perhaps for half a minute. He lifted his hand and pointed first to those ancient footprints, some of which still remained in the dust of the floor, and next, as they thought, at Benita.
The building was an almost exact facsimile of their own place of confinement, both in shape and dimensions; but at the very threshold the visitors encountered evidences of female delicacy and refinement in the shape of finely woven grass curtains or portieres across the otherwise unclosed entrance, and these trifling elegances were multiplied a hundred-fold in the interior, converting the little building into a veritable miniature palace in comparison with their own unadorned domicile.
It fell on the golden hair and pale brow of the child, lighting it up as if an angel had smiled on it; and slowly the large blue eyes unclosed, and gazed dreamily around. "Ally, Ally," said the father, bending over her, trembling with excitement. "You are going to have a New 'Ear's pesent," whispered the little one, faintly smiling.
He might likewise have predetermined to interfere if my safety had been really endangered. On the morrow the two doors of the chamber and the window below would be found unclosed. They will suspect a design to pillage, but their searches will terminate in nothing but in the discovery of a pair of clumsy and dusty shoes in the closet.
Once more, after an interval, the eyes of Vetranio lazily unclosed, and this time he began to speak; but his thoughts if thoughts they could be called were as yet wholly occupied by the 'table-talk' at the past night's banquet. 'The ancient Egyptians oh, sprightly and enchanting Camilla were a wise nation! murmured the senator drowsily.
Then he threw himself across the corpse, and wept in such a terrible manner that Molly trembled lest he also should die should break his heart there and then. He took no more notice of her words, of her tears, of her presence, than he did of that of the moon, looking through the unclosed window, with passionless stare, Her father stood by them both before either of them was aware.
"O, if she would only wake, and speak once more!" he said; and, stooping over her, he spoke in her ear, "Eva, darling!" The large blue eyes unclosed a smile passed over her face; she tried to raise her head, and to speak. "Do you know me, Eva?" "Dear papa," said the child, with a last effort, throwing her arms about his neck. In a moment they dropped again; and, as St.
He was actually discharging a large sugar-plum at the postern gate, which having been left unclosed, the missile would certainly have reached one of the garrison, when he paused as the door opened, and the great round spectacles and four wide, staring infants' eyes were levelled at Miss Susan Posey. She almost forgot her errand, grave as it was, in astonishment at this manifestation.
She knew intuitively, and starting up, her unclosed eyes flashed eagerly around the room, turning at last toward the door where she felt that he was standing. James De Vere remained motionless, watching intently the fair, troubled face, which had never seemed so fair to him, before. "Brother, have you deceived me? Where is he?" she said at last, as her listening ear caught no new sound.
Within her eyes the sapphire gates of heaven unclosed to me; in the splendor of lustred hair was life-warmth. And had I forgot? the red lips I crushed like rose-leaves on my own the tender eyes that plead 'remember me' the faded rosemary which we culled together the vows with which I said that love like ours was never false, nor parting fatal. Had I forgot?
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