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He himself little knew the unmeant significance there was in the old Continental uniform he had worn to the dance. Even his old rifle, had he but known it, had been carried with Daniel Morgan from Virginia to Washington's aid in Cambridge. His earliest memories of war were rooted in thrilling stories of King's Mountain.
It was a beautiful picture, but awful. Winifred shuddered as she thought of the august Presence that inhabited the Holiest of All that the minister spoke of, and wondered if she would dare approach it. To stand in naked spirit before eyes of flame and to be read through and through, daring to speak no unmeant word, but only that which the heart designed, in absolute sincerity!
Mindful of that night when the professor in despair at her untimely descent upon him, had said many things unmeant, he answers her. "Hardly that. But " "Go on." "There was a little word or two, you know," laughing. "A hint?" laughing too, but how strangely! "Yes? And ?" "Oh! a mere hint! The professor is too loyal to go beyond that.
Swiftly she placed her hand upon my heart, saying, "Stay! What meanest thou? Dost love me, Allan?" "I think so that is yes," I answered. She sank back upon the couch away from me and began to laugh very softly. "What words are these," she said, "that they pass thy lips so easily and so unmeant, perchance from long practice? Oh! Allan, I am astonished.
Thornton lying on the brass bed in the car compartment that night, every line of the pale, gentle face as vivid, as actual as though it were once more before her in reality, and in her ears rang again, stabbing her with their unmeant condemnation, those words of sweetness, love and purity that held her up to gaze upon herself in ghastly, terrifying mockery.
Mindful of that night when the professor in despair at her untimely descent upon him, had said many things unmeant, he answers her. "Hardly that. But " "Go on." "There was a little word or two, you know," laughing. "A hint?" laughing too, but how strangely! "Yes? And ?" "Oh! a mere hint! The professor is too loyal to go beyond that.
"Oh, that is rot, Gus, to talk about betting, for you can't pay if you lose." Gus had not too much sensitiveness in his character, but this unmeant insult stung him. "You've no right to say that. I've paid all I've ever betted with you." Cotton considered heavily in his own mind for a moment. "That is almost true, but " "Well, what do you mean " began Todd, in a paddy.
As for what Don Teodoro had said of his having loved Matilde, she believed that less than all the rest, if possible; and the fact that the priest had said it proved beyond all doubt to her that he was out of his mind. Beyond that, it had not prejudiced her against him, for there was a certain noble loftiness in her character which could largely forgive an unmeant wrong.
Seeders she despised utterly; she had but taken his kiss as that of a pioneer and prophetic prince who might have set the clocks going and the pages to running in fairyland. But the kiss had been maudlin and unmeant; the court had not stirred at the false alarm; she must forevermore remain the Sleeping Beauty. Yet not all was lost.
As soon as he could speak so as to be understood, he asked, first in English and then in Spanish, "How is the lady?" "She is insensible," was the reply a reply of unmeant cruelty. Remembering how he had suffered, Thurstane feared lest Clara had received her death-stroke in the slings, and he tottered forward eagerly, saying, "Take me to her."
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