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Lapierre glanced at her in well-feigned surprise. "Had I expected it, Miss Elliston, do you think I would have gone to the Southward? Would I have left you to the mercy of those brutes? When I thought you were in danger on Snare Lake, did I " The girl interrupted him with a gesture. "No! No! I do not think you anticipated the attack, but " Lapierre finished her sentence.
"I earnestly wish to make your daughter my wife, and I have her permission to request that you will give your sanction to our marriage when I next return on shore." "A very clear if not a very modest request," exclaimed the baronet, with a well-feigned look of surprise. "Do I understand that Miss Castleton has pledged her hand to you without my sanction?"
"Just a whim," he reiterated. "So I'll take the key, by your leave." He turned to the door of the inner room and pushed it open, just as he had done awhile ago, and now as then he cast a rapid glance round the room. Klara, through half-closed lids, watched his every movement. "Why!" he exclaimed, turning back to her, and with a look of well-feigned surprise, "the key is not in its place."
The suddenness with which this announcement was made was astounding. Mrs. Phillips appeared ready to faint; Annie turned very pale; and the lieutenant raised his hand to his breast, as if about to draw a weapon. "What do you mean, sir?" inquired Mr. Phillips, with well-feigned surprise.
Richard continued, and Victor replied with well-feigned surprise, "Miss Hastings! You would not ask that little girl to be your wife! Why you are twenty-five years her senior." "No, no, Victor, only twenty-one," and Richard's voice trembled, for like Edith, he wished to be reassured and upheld even by his inferiors.
Gracious, Mr. Markham, are you going to faint? Oh, mercy! shall I call this man? Here, Jacob—‘ But checking the word on her lips, I seized her arm and gave it, I think, a pretty severe squeeze, for she shrank into herself with a faint cry of pain or terror; but the spirit within her was not subdued: instantly rallying, she continued, with well-feigned concern, ‘What can I do for you?
"Well, the truth concerning the death of Miss Gabrielle Engledue." "The death of Miss Gabrielle Engledue!" he cried. "I really don't understand you, Mr. Mr. Garfield!" At mention of the name I saw that he started, but almost imperceptibly. The man was certainly a most perfect actor, and his protestations of ignorance were, indeed, well-feigned.
While seated in the office of the Hinds House, with his eyes rolled to the ceiling, listening in well-feigned rapture to "Rippling Waves" on the cabinet organ, and other numbers rendered singly and ensemble by the Musical Snows, Mr. Dill in reality was wondering by what miracle he was going to carry out Sprudell's specific instructions to keep his errand a secret.
Foundered at sea, twelve hundred miles from the Horn, and more." "And the freight? the gold?" put in Arthur, with well-feigned anxiety. "Not an ounce saved," said Wylie, disconsolately. "A hundred and sixty thousand pounds gone to the bottom." "Good heavens!"
It was with joy in her heart that Aunt Dicey Fairfax went back to her little cottage after her dismissal, but her face clouded when soon after Robert Fairfax came in. "Hyeah you come as usual," she said with well-feigned anger. "Tryin' to sof' soap me aftah you been carryin' on. You ain't changed one mite fu' all yo' bein' a man. What you talk to me dat away in co't fu'?"
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