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Because I thought that if put to it you might prove your innocence or take the only course that could spare her the degradation of seeing the man she loved convicted as a murderer." A grim unmirthful smile parted Robert Grell's lips. He understood well enough what was meant. "You always were a good friend, Fairfield," he retorted. "Perhaps you have a revolver you could lend me."
Her mind raced madly, like an engine out of control. There was a kind of power in Melville Stoner that frightened her. By the recital of a few commonplace facts he had suddenly invaded her secret places. It was almost as though he had come into the bedroom in her father's house where she lay thinking. He had in fact got into her bed. He laughed again, an unmirthful laugh.
It was not long before "the merry monarch" was involved in most unmirthful disputes with the citizens, whom he endeavoured to deprive of their ancient right to elect their own sheriffs. For the moment he partially succeeded, and, encouraged by this success, formed the design of seizing the charters of every corporate borough in the kingdom.
As she gazed, an unmirthful smile spread over her features, like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot. Her lips moved inaudibly, but at length she spake. "I hear it, I hear it. The voice speaketh within me and saith, 'Leave thy child, Catharine, for his place is here, and go hence, for I have other work for thee.
"Nay; leave tragedy, Caterina; I am come to bring thee word of a great opportunity." "For my people? For Cyprus?" she responded with instant interest. He laughed, a curious, unmirthful laugh. "Aye for 'thy people' 'for Cyprus, verily. Listen!
"That doesn't make it any the easier to me," said Doria. "The horrible things I said and did the ghastliness of it " "My dear girl," I interrupted, as kindly as I could. "Don't let this mere fringe of tragedy worry you." She laughed shrilly, with a set, white face; which is the most unmirthful kind of laugh you can imagine. "Don't you know that it's the fringe that is the maddening irritation?
For some time there was silence; and then a laugh low, monotonous, unmirthful, metallic coming as it were from some adjacent chamber, and so unnatural, so abhorring, that it held everyone spell-bound. It died away in the reverberations of the stone corridor, its echoes seeming to awake a chorus of other laughs hardly less dreadful. Again there was silence, no one daring to express his thoughts.
Through the chinks of my fingers, dolorously spread over my face, I see that he has sat down on the other side of the table, just opposite me, and that he is smiling in the same unmirthful, gently sarcastic way, as he was when he left me. "Nancy," he says, "I have been thinking what a pity it is that I have not a yacht!
As she gazed an unmirthful smile spread over her features, like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot. Her lips moved inaudibly, but at length she spake: "I hear it, I hear it! The voice speaketh within me and saith, 'Leave thy child, Catharine, for his place is here, and go hence, for I have other work for thee.
Then what? Perhaps you might feel you needed a guide. If so," he went boldly to the edge of it, then halted, and concluded with a boyishly bashful humor "will you keep my application on file?" Katie was not going to miss her chance of finding out something. "I should want a guide who knew the territory," she said. "I qualify," he replied shortly, with a short, unmirthful laugh.
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