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Then she realized that it was her husband who spoke. He had called her name in his sleep, and yet it seemed a call of God. At once it flashed through her mind that in dreaming of a glorious and happy future she was forgetting him and his need. She turned the light upon his face. Never had he looked so pale and wan, and she realized that he might be near his end.
Are you in want of have you need of food?" No need of answer to that faintly stammered question. The thin, rigid face was covered from his sight by the worn, wan hands, and all the pride and shame of poverty, and all the frigid truth of cold, hunger, anxiety, and sickened sorrow they had concealed, had given way at last in a rush of tears. He could not speak.
They conveyed one of the highest tributes to his worth Tom Fordyce had ever received. He carefully gathered together the loose papers, and for a moment nothing was said. Then he bent his keen and kindly eye full on the old man's wan and withered face. 'Sir, he said, 'if you are not a Christian, as you say, what is your hope for the next world? 'I have none, he answered calmly. 'I am no coward.
It had no limit that he could see, no rules but such as hung too far away, written in the hieroglyphics of paling stars. He could feel no order in the lift and lap of the wan waters round his limbs. Where would those waters carry him? To what depth of still green silence?
In the same book we read that the thoughts of the Emperor Wan were deep, and his conduct firm. In all his relationships he was reverent and true. As a sovereign he was benevolent; as a minister respectful; as a son he exhibited filial piety; as a father he was kind and considerate; towards his subjects he was steadfastly faithful.
The shimmering mists that had nimbused Norhala had vanished or merging into the wan gleaming had become one with it. I stared straight at her, striving to clarify in my own clouded thought what it was that I had sensed as inhuman never of OUR world or its peoples.
A wan and tolerant smile on the imperial countenance apprised him his appeal had been in vain. A suppressed buzz of incredulity brought a flush of resentment to his cheek. "We are not ungrateful for your loyal advice, Your Grace, and will give it our future consideration."
"You grow quite eloquent," said Lancelot, with a wan smile. "Eloquent! There's more in me than you've yet found out. Now then! Give us your hand that you'll chuck art, and we'll drink to your popular ballad hundredth thousand edition, no drawing-room should be without it." Lancelot flushed. "I was just going to have some tea. I think it's five o'clock," he murmured.
But when the girl raised herself to receive her kiss, it was the first real embrace that had passed between them. In the very early morning, Albinia was in the nursery, and found her little boy bright and healthy. As she left him in glad hope and gratitude, Sophy's door was pushed ajar, and her wan face peeped out.
I can take you all out of this daily tile like winkin' all you need to do is to say the wan word and we'll have a house in Colorado Springs or Denver or even in New York. For what did you think I left me business on the busiest day of every week? It was to see your sweet daughter, and I came this time to ask her to go back with me." "What did she say?" "She has not said. We had no time to talk.
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