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But Maurice was only sleeping. The mental strain, conjointly with his fatigue, had been too much for him, in spite of the dangers that menaced them at every moment. He awoke with a start and stared about him, and the peace that slumber had left in his wide-dilated eyes was immediately supplanted by a look of startled affright as it dawned on him where he was.
Steadying her body against the wall, her arms outspread, she edged her way behind the couch and bent over the sleeping man until by his breathing she had located his heart. She raised her tall figure and brought the knife down with a crash into his breast. With a sudden wrench she drew it from the wound and crouched among the shadows watching him with wide-dilated eyes.
When these startling sentences penetrated to Katherine's comprehension she saw as with a flash their far-reaching consequences. Her uncle's will suppressed, his son and natural heir would take everything. And her dear boys how would they fare? She sat with wide-dilated eyes, gazing at the hard, displeased face of this unwelcome intruder.
He would not come with me, and of course I had to leave him." Henriette gazed at him fixedly, with wide-dilated eyes. For a moment no one spoke; then in a calm voice she declared her resolution. "It is well; I will go to him." What, she, go to him? But it was impossible, it was preposterous! Delaherche had more to say of his hurricane of shot and shell.
He stared for a moment at the man with wide-dilated eyes, his body suddenly stiffened, and with a half sob, half cry, he sprang to the floor. "Look! Mama, dear look! It's Papa!" He threw himself on Gordon, and his little arms held his neck convulsively. The man blushed like a girl as his great trembling fingers smoothed the boy's hair.
"Ah, the Prussian scum!" exclaimed Sambuc, wiping the sweat from his forehead, "he gave us trouble enough! Say, Silvine, light another candle, will you, so we can get a good view of the d d pig and see what he looks like." Silvine arose, her wide-dilated eyes shining bright from out her colorless face.
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