Then, deliberately, his eyes lifted to
hers. "I was wishing you could see me fight just once."
Prince Andrew went again to his wife and sat waiting in the room next to
hers. A woman came from the bedroom with a frightened face and became confused when she saw Prince Andrew.
The woman who sat in front of me was the woman whom I had met so strangely that day on that solitary moorland, and whom in prophecy still more strange my soul had declared to be, "now and for ever and before all worlds the woman God had created for me, and that unless I could be
hers and she mine, there could be no home, no peace, for either of us so long as we lived--" and now so strangely met again.
The more private inquiries I conduct for my fair relative the harder she will find it to get rid of
hers truly, Horatio Wragge.
He was now esteemed quite worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift baronet, who had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which Providence had placed him, and who could give his daughter at present but a small part of the share of ten thousand pounds which must be
hers hereafter.
The other he tried to slip through
hers; but she eluded him nimbly, and Frome's heart, which had swung out over a black void, trembled back to safety.
She felt safer with the feel of his arm against
hers, and with the contact of
her the man took a new grip upon himself.
Bert was very possessive with Mary, almost roughly so, resting his hand on
hers, catching and holding it, and, once, forcibly slipping off
her two rings and refusing to return them for a long while.
`Oh, I've had such a curious dream!' said Alice, and she told
her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of
hers that you have just been reading about; and when she had finished,
her sister kissed
her, and said, `It WAS a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it's getting late.' So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.
And what sort of crisis might not this be in three lives whose contact with
hers laid an obligation on
her as if they had been suppliants bearing the sacred branch?
At last he halted in front of the young woman, bringing his face down close to
hers.
He had a jaded anxious look upon him, and his hand, usually steady, trembled in
hers. He sat down at the side of the bed, tenderly asking how she was, and dwelling on the necessity of
her keeping very quiet after
her agitation and exposure to the weather last night.