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Nothing but death or your permission shall ever unseal my lips. When I heard that he was dead I feared lest he might have spoken, but now that I had seen him alive, I knew that in no other breast, save his, my own and that of the unknown minister in an almost unknown town, dwelt any knowledge of the fact which stood between me and the marriage which all these people had come here to see.
'Very natural, said Glossin, but speaking as if his utmost efforts were unable to unseal his lips beyond the width of a quarter of an inch, so that his whole utterance was a kind of compressed muttering, very different from the round, bold, bullying voice with which he usually spoke.
Colbert looked at the packet with much attention; the cardinal put on a pleasant countenance and pushed him towards the door. "And the letter of the queen-mother, my lord?" asked Colbert. "It is in with the rest, in the packet," said Mazarin. "Oh! very well," replied Colbert; and placing his hat between his knees, he began to unseal the packet. Mazarin uttered a cry.
"Then use thy powers of persuasion," he said, lifting his hand towards the executioner. "Unseal his lips, and that quickly." "Chief of our race, whose praises rise earliest and most frequent in the presence of Allah, I am ready to obey thee," answered the hideous functionary. So saying, he took up a long iron instrument, fashioned like a pair of pincers and thrust it into the burning coals.
They all knew how the future Mrs. Potts had brought a plum-cake down to the steamer, when she came to say good-bye, and made Potts promise he wouldn't unseal the packet till Christmas. It wouldn't do to pool Potts' cake never! There was the Colonel, the only man that had a sack of coffee.
He grows timid as he descends into the vale of despair. Why did he do it? These details of the electoral campaign seem trivial now. Easy difficulties! He reaches the last letter of the packet. Marvelous that he should wait to unseal it until an hour so fraught with need! It is Esther's letter probably some cold missive such as she wrote during their courtship and engagement.
It was a Saturday in the first month of his first term at Tidborough School when his father had come over to see him. The loneliness of newness was still upon him. He had been affected almost to tears by being with some one whose mind was open, as it were, for him to jump into: some one to whom he could open his mind, unseal the home thoughts, unlock the timid tongue.
Hark! a soft, breezy sound steals up just beneath my window. It is the vibration of the guitar, a deeptoned, melodious voice accompanies it. It is the voice of St. James. He sings, and the strains fall upon the stilly night, soft as the silver dew. "Gabriella, I told you with my dying lips never to unseal this manuscript till you were awakened to woman's destiny, love.
Afterwards they stretched themselves out and chatted, making each other's acquaintance, and deepening their mutual experiences. Patsy could now unseal her treasured tales. She spoke of Eitel the Prince, and Stair first blushed crimson and then went pale with desire to wring that well-nigh regal neck.
Let her have leisure to consult her heart, And in confiding friendship to unseal Her long-closed bosom. Now the hour is come When, with a sister's love, I also may Approach the maid severe, and offer her This silent, faithful breast. Permit us women Alone to weigh this womanly affair; Do you await the issue. Be it so!
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