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But it had to be said, and, after a pause, and with eyes averted, "My brother is ill," she faltered. "He cannot meet that man, this morning. It is as you feared. And what can we do?" In another case Luke Asgill would have blessed the chance that linked him with her, that wrought a tie between them, and cast her on his help.
Let all be as usual." "Heaven bless you, Alford!" faltered his aunt, with tearful eyes. "Heaven! what a mockery! Even the lichen, the insect, lives a complete life, while we, with all our reason, so often blunder, fail, and miss that which is essential to existence." Mrs.
He seemed to regard me as a source of information about all the latest 'movements, and I had to shout banalities while he munched his mutton banalities whose one saving grace for me was that they were inaudible to Swinburne. Had I met Swinburne's gaze, I should have faltered.
"Priscilla Glynn," she faltered, "hide her, hide her forever, hide poor Priscilla Glenn." Then her thoughts flew back to the recent past. She had found Margaret alone in her own library. "Now how did you know I wanted you more than any one else in the world?" Margaret had said. "When did you get back? You baddest of the bad! Why did you hide from me? Where were you?" "In Bermuda."
"What, sir!" at length he gasped; "I take charge of Welch's!" "Yes, my boy," said the doctor, quietly. "Oh, I could never do it, sir!" exclaimed Riddell, pale at the very notion. "Try," said the head master. "It may not be so impossible as you think." "I'm not popular, sir," faltered Riddell, "and I've no influence. Indeed, it would only make things worse. Try some one else, sir. Try Fairbairn."
Every day by each other's side over hundreds and hundreds of miles! Say, ain't you game? Come on! It's a crime to send me away without you. How can you do it?" "I can't I'm afraid," she faltered. "You'll marry me, then?" "Yes!" she whispered. "What is the latest day you can start?" "Next Saturday, if we go in the car "
Free!" cried Alixe Delavigne, as she strained her gentle captive to her bosom. "My own poor darling! Now, we shall never be parted! My darling! My Valerie's own image!" "And, my mother?" faltered the lovely girl, the sunrise of hope flooding her cheek with affection's glow of dawn. "My sister your mother looks down from Heaven upon us, joined after many years!" sobbed Alixe.
Does she think he's a little too pushing? Perhaps, he is a little pushing." She reflected, with an inward sigh, that she would know whether he was if she only knew more about him. He did the honours of his room very simply and nicely, and he said it was pretty rough to think this was the last of it. After which he faltered, and something occurred to Mrs Saintsbury. "Why, we're keeping you!
Let her come to me this instant and she shall never have cause to complain again!" Then Cinderella approached her mother and received a kiss; and then her mother led her solicitously into the space behind the curtain, the two sisters following with awe-stricken faces. For the first time now Truth faltered as if she had no heart for the next task she had to perform.
I've got to think of other people." "You mustn't say that!" she cried. "Oh, you mustn't say that to me!" "Why not?" he said, looking at her strangely. "What have I said that isn't right?" "Nothing, I suppose," Juliet faltered. "But but Oh," she cried, "if you don't care for her, you must tell her so, and she will break it off. Anything would be better than to go on with it!"
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