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"I'll never speak to the girl again." There was a tense silence for a few seconds, then old Hyams said: "Why not? You love her." Daniel stared at him, his heart palpitating painfully. The blood in his ears throbbed mad sweet music. "You love her," Mendel repeated quietly. "Why do you not ask her to marry you? Do you fear she would refuse?" Daniel burst into semi-hysterical laughter.
"Any way, I'll grant that the boys belong to you more than to me." Phebe Vincent's character had verily changed. Her attacks of semi-hysterical despondency never returned; her gloomy prophecies ceased.
Steingall permitted himself the rare luxury of a semi-hysterical break in his voice. "What!" he cried. "Is she the daughter of the Earl of Valletort?" "Precisely, though you astonish me by the ease with which you connect two such widely different names. Such knowledge usually implies a close acquaintance with the amiable foibles of the British aristocracy." Certainly it was well that Mrs.
Fentolin," Hamel said simply, "that you will give her to me. I am not a rich man, but I am fairly well off. I should be willing to live exactly where Esther wishes, and I would do my best to make her happy." Mrs. Fentolin opened her lips once and closed them again. She laughed a little a high-pitched, semi-hysterical laugh.
'For your wife's for your own sake for the love of Him in whose image you were made wrestle with the devil that possesses you, said John Jardine, when they had risen to leave the room, laying his hand affectionately upon Brian's shoulder. 'Believe me, victory is possible. 'Not now, Brian answered, with a semi-hysterical laugh. 'It is too late.
Her semi-hysterical statement that what she saw was 'like a pig with the entrails out' was only thought anything of by an old coastguard, who shook his head but did not make any remark. For the remainder of the daylight this man was seen always on the bank, looking into the water, but always with disappointment manifest on his face.
But the priest never relaxed his proud composure and self-possession. He looked so penetratingly at the laughing jade that I think it must have penetrated into her very soul. Her wild mirth ended abruptly in a strange semi-hysterical shriek as her eyes met his look of intense scorn. She winced and was effectively cowed into silence.
He was in that state of semi-hysterical exhaustion in which revelation of one's intimate troubles to the first comer seems natural. "She's gone and got arrested," he wailed. Mayme's face became grave and practical. "That's different," said she. "What's her lay?" "Lay? I don't know " "What's her line? What's she done to get pinched?" "Shoplifting. At the special night sale of the Emporium."
Lady Laura showed herself among her guests, for a quarter of an hour or so, in a semi-hysterical flutter; so anxious that everything should go off well, so fearful that something might happen, she knew not what, to throw the machinery of her arrangements out of gear.
Garda Desmaines, the wonderful Garda, sat next to her host, her bosom and hair on fire with jewels, yet with the most wonderful light of all glowing in her eyes. A famous actor, who had thrown his proverbial reticence to the winds, kept his immediate neighbors in a state of semi-hysterical mirth.
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