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There was no one within it: yes, upon the hearth-rug lay the motionless form of Mrs. Basil; she was lying on her face; and, rushing forward, Harry knelt down beside her, and strove to lift her in her arms. Some instinct seemed to forbid her to call for assistance. "What is it? what is it?" gasped the old woman, looking vacantly up in the other's face. "You have been unwell, dear madam.

By this deed of treachery she hoped in her false soul to bring King Arthur to his death. And well-nigh she succeeded therein, as shall be told hereafter. A day or two after King Arthur had placed the magical scabbard in the hands of his evil-thinking sister, he grew unwell, and had his tent pitched in a meadow near Camelot for the benefit of the fresh air and the green verdure.

I listened with chilled manners and a troubled mind. "You are unwell, Edward," she remarked tenderly, approaching and throwing her arms around my neck, as she perceived the gradual gathering of that cloud upon my brows. "Why do you think so, Julia?" "Oh, you look so sad almost severe, Edward, and your words are so few and cold. Have I offended you, dear Edward?"

But she crowned all, and confirmed herself in Lady Southdown's favour, by feeling very much agitated and unwell after the funeral and requesting her Ladyship's medical advice, which the Dowager not only gave, but, wrapped up in a bed-gown and looking more like Lady Macbeth than ever, came privately in the night to Becky's room with a parcel of favourite tracts, and a medicine of her own composition, which she insisted that Mrs.

Consequently, when Eugene, interpreting, in favor of his vanity, the refusal to admit him, bowed to Madame de Listomere in a tolerably intentional manner, she veiled her thoughts behind one of those feminine smiles which are more impenetrable than the words of a king. "Are you unwell, madame? You denied yourself to visitors." "I am well, monsieur." "Perhaps you were going out?" "Not at all."

He has a bright, ingenious mind, and knows every thing, and seemed particularly willing to give me the benefit of his knowledge, for which I was suitably grateful. On the whole, I spent a very pleasant evening, and we parted about nine o'clock, Miss Ida promising to be our guide to the castle in the morning. Well, in the morning I was too unwell to leave the sofa.

The next morning the understanding which Mary had for long instinctively feared, and against which she had raised a barrier of silence, came at last. She was standing for some final work on the Danae. but she had awakened feeling rather unwell, and her pose was listless. Stefan noticed it, and she braced herself by an effort, only to droop again.

'My dear lady, said the Doctor, gazing on her with extreme anxiety, 'you are yourself unwell. Lady Annabel heaved a deep sigh; the Doctor bore her to a seat. 'Shall I send for any one, anything? 'No one, no one, quickly answered Lady Annabel. 'With you, at least, there is no concealment necessary. She leant back in her chair, the Doctor holding her hand, and standing by her side.

Helen was too unwell to be told any thing of the matter at that time, as her mother was afraid of agitating her. After dinner Mr. Martin observed from his window the flowerpots standing on the green. "Where can these great flowerpots have come from?" asked he. "Look at them, my dear, I cannot think who can have put them there."

"What is the matter with you, my dear?" he inquired. "Do you feel unwell?" She was breathing with difficulty. "Well, I don't know," she answered; "but I can't feel my limbs, and my breath fails me." At that very moment the thought had occurred to him that all the agitation, fever, and scramble of a pilgrimage could not be very good for heart-disease.