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One or two of the men were engaged in stamping out the candles, which still sputtered feebly on the floor. The rest stood about uncomfortably, hypnotized by an indefinable alarm. "I fear you did not dream, Miss Caruthers," the Rajah said at last. "The rope has been cut the chain unlinked. Some wicked harm was intended to us all." "Not to us all," Stafford observed coolly.
These plans had come out in the talks over Amy's marriage and her leaving home. Sylvie was left to her village; she could only go in to the Miss Goodwyns and down to the bakery; and now that her condescensions were unlinked from those of Miss Kirkbright, and just dropped into next-door matter of course, Mrs. Argenter fretted. Marion Kent would come calling, too, and talk about Mrs.
Why didn't you scare me to death and be done with it?" "Did I scare you, sweetness? Cross my heart, I didn't mean to." "Well, I should say you did!" He linked his arm into hers. "Come on; I'll buy you a drink." She unlinked. "Honest, can't a girl go home from work in this town without one of you fellows getting fresh with her?" "All right, then; I'll buy you a supper.
What ardent vows have been exchanged; what wild and despairing farewells been breathed! How many brief attachments have been linked and as suddenly unlinked, between those who had never met before, who were never, never to meet again and yet, to whom forgetfulness had become forever impossible!
In other words, it was to stand, and to stand unmolested, till it fell of its own accord, or was struck to the earth by lightning a tragic alternative in the judgment of those who knew it for a structure of comparative insignificance, and one which, in the minds of many, and perhaps I may say in my own, appeared to point to some serious and unrevealed cause not unlinked with the almost forgotten death of that young wife to which I have just alluded.
I said, mentally overthrown to find that, without forewarning of any kind, something had filled my throat like a sob of temper. What was the matter with me? I unlinked my arm and walked beside Penny in moody silence, determining that at an early opportunity I would bring about a quarrel between us which should not be easily repaired.
Precisely in those bodies, however, it was, in those as connected with tyrannical governments, each academic body being shackled to its own petty centre of local despotism, that the old spells remained unlinked; and to them, equally remarkable as firm trustees of truth, and as obstinate depositories of darkness or of superannuated prejudice, we must ascribe the slowness of the German movement on the path of reascent.
And she could not reconcile this with his appearance. However, the train of unlinked ideas which she pursued began to form the semblance of a chain. Coupling his name with Quarrier's, and with a club, aroused memory; vague uneasiness stirred her to a glimmering comprehension. Siward? Stephen Siward? One of the New York Siwards then; one of that race
Come what may there shall be one pure place in my heart; one unsoiled spot in my life; one ever-dear remembrance unlinked with sorrow and with shame; one memory which, however sad, shall not be humiliating." She put her handkerchief to her eyes as she ceased speaking, and appeared to be entirely overcome by her emotion. The Marchese rose from his chair in a state of hardly less agitation.
Then all was silent, and the artist found himself imprisoned in the arms of the woman, which were locked round his neck. With an oath he unlinked her fingers and flung her away from him fiercely.
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