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What do you intend to do when the strike is over?" "I hadn't thought." Janet started at the question, but Mrs. Maturin did not seem to notice the dismay in her tone. "You don't intend to to travel around with the I. W. W. people, do you?" "I I hadn't thought," Janet faltered. It was the first time Mrs. Maturin had spoken of her connection with Syndicalism.
"My dear, dear son, I trust you do not disbelieve me," said the doctor, in an apparently hurt tone of voice. "I I don't know what to say," faltered Jack. "This is so strange so unexpected. Why didn't you come here before?" "I have just been telling Mrs. Ruthven my story," and the surgeon repeated what he had said, with several added details.
"As he saved my nephew's," replied Robert Grey, but his voice faltered as he realized that for the first time in years he was speaking to her and that she was grateful to him. Miss Maise however took no notice of his emotion. "That was his duty," she said coldly. "Peri is a Maise through and through. He is too brave and kind to let anyone or anything perish.
"My child," said Sir Philip, with a long sigh, looking up at Anne, who had gathered the boy into her arms, and was hiding her face against his little awe-struck head, "my child, have you read?" "No," faltered Anne. "Read then." And as she would have taken it, he suddenly drew her into his embrace and kissed her as the eyes of both overflowed.
Well, I'm going to give you some money do you know why?" A flash of self-consciousness passed over the girl's face; she looked at him with her wide blue eyes. "Yes, Grandfather," she faltered. Mrs. Cresswell rose to her feet; but the old man slowly dropped the girl's hand and lay back in his chair, with lips half smiling. "Grandfather," he repeated softly.
Arnault," she faltered. "Mr. Arnault has gone." "Gone where?" she gasped. "I don't know. As the clock struck twelve he came rapidly out and walked away. He passed by me, but would not answer when I spoke to him. Come, let me take you to your room." With a chill at heart almost like that of death she went with him, and sat down pale and speechless. In a few moments a note was brought to Mr.
His hands trembled between his knees. He was wrestling with himself. "No," he cried, at last, "I cannot, I dare not tell you. Unless, perhaps" his voice faltered "you could receive it under the seal of confession? But no. How could you do that? Here in the green woods? In the open air, beside a spring? Here is no confessional." "Why not?" asked Father Courcy. "It is a good place, a holy place.
Hugh opened his eyes on hearing this, and looked at him in great surprise. And so you were, too, said Mr Tappertit, pushing him away with a condescending playfulness. 'When did MY eyes ever deceive unless it was a young woman! Don't you know me now? 'Why it an't Hugh faltered. 'An't it? said Mr Tappertit. 'Are you sure of that? You remember G. Varden, don't you?
A very miasma of dread enveloped that table, a thing so palpable that Miss Annabel found herself starting at a sound, the minister's ready tongue faltered on a favourite phrase, Esther's clear voice grew blurred, Aunt Amy wrung her hands, Jane's eyes were wide with unchildlike care. Only Callandar seemed undisturbed, courteous, interested.
Barbara's voice faltered, and the rushing crimson dyed her face. Whose face was that, who was he, standing opposite to her, side by side with John Herbert? She had seen the face but once, yet it had implanted itself upon her memory in characters of fire.
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