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The meek reproach; the touching words; the mien and visage altered, since last beheld, from manhood into age; the gray hairs and bended form of the king, went at once to that proud heart; and as the earl bent over the wan, thin hand resigned to his lips, a tear upon its surface out-sparkled all the jewels that it wore.
The angry light which had flashed across her face when he used force to detain her died away; the pallid lips commenced to tremble, and in the sunken eyes large tear-drops rose and hung quivering upon the long eyelashes. "Enough, Blanche," Mr. Laurence continued, in a softer voice. "Nature answers me. I will not give you the needless pain of speaking. Then, why did you forsake me?
One ought to make a difference in favor of friends; I do not care to present an amiable face to my enemies." She pursed up her lips and looked thoughtful. "When Uncle James goes to Washington to take the Presidency," she continued, "he will need me to protect him from the people who have no business with him." "I hope the last remark is not personal?"
All things seemed obedient to him, when he chose to open his lips in supplication to his master. The fame which he had acquired by this intimacy and friendship with the Great Spirit was the means of giving peace to his nation.
Melrose? hateful cruel tyrannical! when you must silence all that is generous and noble " Her voice failed her. Faversham's lips tightened. They remained looking at each other. Then Faversham rose suddenly. He stooped over her. She heard his voice, hoarse and broken in her ears: "Lydia I love you! I love you with all my heart! and all my strength!
She could feel the quickened beating of his heart as he held her respectfully, yet firmly and tenderly, embraced, and he was soon rewarded for his loving care by seeing the colour return to her pale lips, the happy light to her sweet eyes, and even a faint flush appear on her delicate cheeks.
She walked across the floor several times, then said impressively, as she threw her arm round Clara's waist: "Crush it; crush it; if you crush your heart in the effort." A moan escaped Clara's lips, and she hid her face against her friend's shoulder. "I have known it since the night of your grandfather's death. If you want to be happy and useful, crush it out of your heart."
His heart might be torn by grief, but he was now the Roman from whose lips no murmuring was heard. It seemed to Jack Everson that the strangeness of the incidents of the past hour had lifted him into a state of exaltation.
I'll go straight to her. I am determined to learn from her own lips exactly what happened to me and how I came to make such a fool of myself. I will speak to her myself." And immediately he ordered his coachman to put the horses to; but he told not a living soul whither he was going, even to the coachman he only mentioned the first stage.
The whole passed so suddenly, and arose so much out of the immediate impulse of the moment, that ere the Master of Ravenswood could reflect upon the consequences of the step which he had taken, their lips, as well as their hands, had pledged the sincerity of their affection.
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