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As he stood there, trying to quench his fiery face with his drink of water, the comparison between the orator and the crowd of attentive faces turned towards him, was extremely to his disadvantage.

How to discover a solution to this riddle of death seemed a query of more importance than highest problems of the living.

I could read in them a set purpose to devote his life to this quest until the client whom he had failed to save should at last be avenged.

This is the man whom we now learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest.

The majority of the searchers had given up the quest and gone back to their daily avocations, saying that it was plain the children could never be found.

He trembled very much though; for, even in his terror, Oliver could see that the knife quivered in the air.

The walls of his chest seemed to thrill and quiver as a frail building would do inside when some powerful engine was at work.

Two or three lamps were rained out and blown out; so, both saw the lightning to advantage as it quivered and zigzagged on the iron tracks.

Their attention and wit were drawn off to his more fortunate rival; and the raillery which the other had incurred before any partiality arose, was removed when his feelings began really to call for the ridicule so justly annexed to sensibility.

Strangers, modest enough elsewhere, started up at dinners in Coketown, and boasted, in quite a rampant way, of Bounderby.

A second very obvious one is that this young man really is the heir of a great property, however modest his means may at present be, and it is not impossible that a plot to hold him for ransom might be concocted.

The corn ration was drastically reduced, and it was announced that an extra potato ration would be issued to make up for it.

The troop had added their ration of parched corn and side meat to the supper of dried peas, stewed dried apples and peanuts which Mammy set before them and they declared it was the best meal they had had in months.

The absolute solitude in which they lived intensified their reciprocal thoughts; yet some might have said that it had the disadvantage of consuming their mutual affections at a fearfully prodigal rate.

It determined him to attempt a reconciliation, though not exactly in the manner pointed out by their brother and sister.

It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear.

As we walked to and fro, all four together, before breakfast, I deemed it right to recount what I had seen.

Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution.

The animals had now reassembled in the wildest excitement, each recounting his own exploits in the battle at the top of his voice.

I began to reflect whether I had done anything to offend her; and my conscience whispered me that I had not yet told her about Dora.

The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories.

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement.

Indeed, it is a question if the exclusive reign of this orthodox beauty is not approaching its last quarter.

Sissy, though well acquainted with his Royal line, had no personal knowledge of the present Emperor, and his reign was peaceful.

At the sight there was a general reining up of horses and unslinging of guns, while fresh horsemen came galloping up to reinforce the vanguard.

Warm clothing, when it was obtainable at all, had risen to such prohibitive prices that Atlanta ladies were lining their old dresses with rags and reinforcing them with newspapers to keep out the wind.

For a moment she considered asking him to lend her three hundred dollars, but wearily she rejected the idea.

He should not have to think of her as pining in the retirement of Mansfield for him, rejecting Sotherton and London, independence and splendour, for his sake.

She placed a cushion under his head, and offered him some water; he rejected the latter, and tossed uneasily on the former, as if it were a stone or a block of wood.

A harsher man would rejoice now in the power I have of turning upon your aunt by going no further in the business.

However, I rejoice to say that I have a hated rival, who will certainly cut me out the instant that my back is turned.

While she spoke, Wickham looked as if scarcely knowing whether to rejoice over her words, or to distrust their meaning.

They both had weak eyes, which I had long attributed to their chronically looking in at keyholes, and they were always at hand when not wanted; indeed that was their only reliable quality besides larceny.

The instant that he heard of it he made a complete confession to me, so filled was he with horror and remorse.

She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse.

Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equalled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done.

He swore in his heart that he would not fail in this if human effort and human perseverance could render him successful.

I had thought of that too, and it was very far from comforting to me to find that he had thought of it; for it seemed to render it more probable.

It is not that I can do her any good, or render her any real service; but she is so attached to me that my visit will have as much effect on her, as if I could do both.

He looked at her oddly, still inscrutable and as she hurried on she could not tell if he were amused or repelled.

But a system of inducement which might have carried weaker country lasses along with it had merely repelled Eustacia.

I recollect being very much surprised by the feint everybody made, then, of not having been to sleep at all, and by the uncommon indignation with which everyone repelled the charge.

I felt that I must have something in reserve for my dreadful acquaintance, and his ally the still more dreadful young man.

I shall talk to you without any reserve; because I am sure you are well able to understand me, as many older persons would be.

You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you.

She wanted very much to scream every time Melanie did, and only by biting her lips so hard it infuriated her could she restrain herself and drive off hysteria.

As they approached the town, and at length drove through its narrow streets, it became matter of no small difficulty to restrain the boy within reasonable bounds.

I could not restrain my eye from resting for an instant on a red spot upon it; but it was not so red as I turned, when I met that sinister expression in his face.

It was possible that you might retain the feelings of the past, as I did; and one encouragement happened to be mine.

Oliver retained his stool by the fire; Barney wrapped in a blanket, stretched himself on the floor: close outside the fender.

His affection for her soon sunk into indifference; hers lasted a little longer; and in spite of her youth and her manners, she retained all the claims to reputation which her marriage had given her.

Meanwhile it had struck me that it would be wise to secure our retreat through the outer door, so I examined it.

His brown face looked so savage, and his gaunt hands so threatening, that his visitors sprang to their feet and beat a hurried retreat.

They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat.

I settled his doubts, by suddenly retrieving my gravity and desiring him to walk away, for I came to see Linton, not him.

Brownlow, unwilling to deprive the elder son of the opportunity of retrieving his former vices and pursuing an honest career, proposed this mode of distribution, to which his young charge joyfully acceded.

They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one.

Dick made his two hands revolve very fast about each other a great number of times, and then brought them into collision, and rolled them over and over one another, to express confusion.

The faint niggery smell which crept from the cabin increased her nausea and, without strength to combat it, she kept on retching miserably while the cabins and trees revolved swiftly around her.

His tail had grown rigid and twitched sharply from side to side, a sign in him of intense mental activity.

His chin was cocked upward and his eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the ceiling.

Always proceeding from a rigid mouth and closed teeth, as if the jaw were locked and the face frozen up in pain.

He had been a dashing and resourceful officer during the war, but two severe wounds and four years of fighting seemed to have drained him of all his resourcefulness, leaving him to face the rigors of peace as bewildered as a child.

You are determined to ruin him in the opinion of all his friends, and make him the contempt of the world.

Jim was most ruined for a servant, because he got stuck up on account of having seen the devil and been rode by witches.

I could rather believe every creature of my acquaintance leagued together to ruin me in his opinion, than believe his nature capable of such cruelty.

For a moment she could not understand what it all meant and then, remembering that the commissary warehouses were down by the railroad tracks, she realized that the army had thrown them open to the people to salvage what they could before the Yankees came.

It was as if the tranquil sanctuary of my boyhood had been sacked before my face, and its peace and honour given to the winds.

He waved his hand, and they scampered away downstairs like so many rats, and we heard their shrill voices next moment in the street.

Of the swiftly scampering child, all that now remained were two tiny feet, inadequate to her weight, and a tendency to prattle happily and aimlessly.

Spiders had built their webs in the angles of the walls and ceilings; and sometimes, when Oliver walked softly into a room, the mice would scamper across the floor, and run back terrified to their holes.

It had been her intention to send Pork out with the horse and wagon, the gold pieces and the United States money to scour the countryside for provisions and material for clothes.

It was not until the two boys had scoured, with great rapidity, through a most intricate maze of narrow streets and courts, that they ventured to halt beneath a low and dark archway.

It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out.

There he was dogged by his confederate, who held Beppo responsible for the loss of the pearl, and he stabbed him in the scuffle which followed.

Prissy and Wade scurried for the cellar and crouched in the cobwebbed darkness, Prissy squalling at the top of her voice and Wade sobbing and hiccoughing.

Yet, in spite of his shabby and even absurd appearance, his voice had a sharp crackle, and his manner a quick intensity which commanded attention.

As haggard and as shabby, as if, for want of custom, it had itself taken to drinking, and had gone the way all drunkards go, and was very near the end of it.

The fine flower of their intimacy was to her rather like an orchid, a bulb stuck parasitic on her tree of life, and producing, to her eyes, a rather shabby flower.

Bounderby extended his right hand to the weeping lady, and escorted her to the conveyance in question, shedding many plaintive sneezes by the way.

The occupants had evidently retired to rest, for all was dark save for a fanlight over the hall door, which shed a single blurred circle on to the garden path.

I sat looking at Peggotty for some time, in a reverie on this supposititious case: whether, if she were employed to lose me like the boy in the fairy tale, I should be able to track my way home again by the buttons she would shed.

The work being now finished, the two girls, whose names I had not heard, brushed the shreds and threads from their dresses, and went into the shop to put that to rights, and wait for customers.

Frederick, a tough, shrewd man, perpetually involved in lawsuits and with a name for driving hard bargains.

Sobs, snuffles, a fist taken from a blubbered face, and a black shrewd eye cast for a second on the sixpence.

Abel was a shrewd, grave giant, illiterate, kind of heart, older than the other boys and with as good or better manners in the presence of ladies.

Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up.

The flame threw a ghastly light on their shrivelled faces, and made their ugliness appear terrible, as, in this position, they began to converse in a low voice.

His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance.

It would be an enormous night reception with palms and an orchestra and all the porches shrouded in canvas, and a collation that made her mouth water in anticipation.

The central part was evidently of a great age and shrouded in ivy, but the large windows showed that modern changes had been carried out, and one wing of the house appeared to be entirely new.

There was freckled places on the ground where the light sifted down through the leaves, and the freckled places swapped about a little, showing there was a little breeze up there.

Therefore, sir, I accept your offer gratefully, and with many sincere acknowledgments for past favours.

I rather wished, than believed him to be sincere; but, at any rate, was perfectly ready to accede to his proposal.

She had been used before to feel that he could not be always quite sincere, but now she saw insincerity in everything.

She peeped through the window, and saw the dark little room, with its almost sinister privacy, not wanting to be invaded.

I could not restrain my eye from resting for an instant on a red spot upon it; but it was not so red as I turned, when I met that sinister expression in his face.

I had little doubt that I had come to the end of my career when I perceived the somewhat sinister figure of the late Professor Moriarty standing upon the narrow pathway which led to safety.

Melanie hung onto it as though it were a life line, straining, pulling it taut, slackening it, tearing it.

As this consideration forced itself upon him, he slackened his pace a little, and meditated upon his means of getting there.

It was already beginning to slacken, with a slack sort of thinness, almost withered, going old before it had ever really lived.

I had looked into my affairs so often, that I had thoroughly destroyed any slight notion I might ever have had of their bearings.

I knew from the first, that, if I could not do my work as well as any of the rest, I could not hold myself above slight and contempt.

There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.

Immediately the fires which smoldered beneath tight basques flamed wildly and the two organizations split up and glared hostilely.

After another and a final squeeze with both arms, she got down from the cart and ran away; and, my belief is, and has always been, without a solitary button on her gown.

The solitary window was so dirty that the light was hazy and uncertain, giving a dull grey tinge to everything, which was intensified by the thick layer of dust which coated the whole apartment.

For this reason I will now lay before the reader the facts connected with Miss Violet Smith, the solitary cyclist of Charlington, and the curious sequel of our investigation, which culminated in unexpected tragedy.

Elinor perceived with alarm that she was not quite herself, and, while attempting to soothe her, eagerly felt her pulse.

The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees.

From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world.