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And yet, what man with red blood and two wide-open eyes in his heart would have refused to play the cards Monsieur thus honestly laid out?
One hand is clutching the arm of her chair her wide-open black eyes never turn from the night-scene. "My lady is dead cruelly murdered. O Miss Inez! do you hear? murdered! What is to be done?" She does not answer. Her lips move, but no word comes. An awful fear begins to fill the faithful servant's heart. "Miss Inez!" he cries out, "you must come they are waiting for you below.
It is useless to blind thine eyes to what is coming. They tell me thou art not blind; and I come to thee, lad, because I think well of thee, to ask if it would please thee to strengthen thy position in thine own land and in Edward's sight by an alliance with an English maiden of noble birth. Hast thou ever thought of such a thing?" Wendot's wide-open eyes gave answer enough.
A crimson flush extended to her brow; the unconcern died out of her eyes. "I do not understand," she answered, slowly. "When a woman says 'I do not understand, she means 'I wish to forget'." Her wide-open glance flashed ominously to his; she clasped and unclasped her fingers. "Forget what?" she said, coldly. "Nameless nothings!" he returned.
All the while his sister was speaking, he gazed at her with wide-open eyes, only knowing now how much she had done and suffered for him; and, as she ended, he flung himself on her neck, and exclaimed, "Oh, mamma! My dear little mamma!" It was quite dark by this time, and Lady Helena made the children go to bed, for she knew they must be tired after their journey.
A veteran politician, such as he, would never fall asleep with wide-open eyes, lest some enemy or mischief-maker, taking him thus at unawares, should peep through these windows into his consciousness, and make strange discoveries among the reminiscences, projects, hopes, apprehensions, weaknesses, and strong points, which he has heretofore shared with nobody.
Then, as he ended, he spoke a few words to all who were there, and he begged those who were not servants of Christ, to consider what they were losing. 'All this might be yours, he said, 'the wide-open gates, the Heavenly City, the seat on the glorious Throne; but you are turning your backs on it all, and you are choosing instead what?
There was no sign of drowsiness in her wide-open eyes as they stared at the door between the two rooms. McKay could see her hand clasping Porter's arm. Porter was talking, with his face so close to her bent head that his lips touched her hair, and though Jolly Roger could understand no word that was spoken he knew Porter was whispering the exciting secret of his identity to Josephine Tavish.
The tall young minister, stepping aside and standing tip-toe, could see sloping downward behind this hedge of beard a pinched and chalk-like face, with wide-open, staring eyes. Its lips, of a dull lilac hue, were moving ceaselessly, and made a dry, clicking sound. Theron instinctively joined himself to those who followed the litter a motley dozen of street idlers, chiefly boys.
But still he must have slumbered soundly or he would have heard the faint scream and the hoarse, muffled voice that came up from his mother's room shortly after midnight, or been awakened by the swift rush of the two figures who hastened up the stairs and through the wide-open door into his room.
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