...each understood, without word or sign. "He lives, then, thank God !" exclaimed Everett at last, as he sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. "Is it possible to discuss the details now, father, or did you leave them all to Mr. Thomas Evans?"...

...but I have no one to whom I can bequeath my fame. Loring, did you think for one moment I would allow this?" He sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands, his strong frame shaken with tearless sobs. Loring wondered if she could bear it. He had come to her...

...stairs slowly. Another door opened and shut. The house was in silence. With a groan Lord Wilberforce sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. For his son's sake he had taken the life of a fellow-man. For his son's sake he had risked his life and...

...useless to plead. Money alone could save him and he had scarcely two soldi to rub one against the other. He sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands to hide his fear. "The greatest in the Provinces!" the She-wolf mused. "Do you remember you called...

...of resistance, as though he intended to thrust back his aggressors. But it was only momentary; and he sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands: "What a mystery!" he stammered. "I don't understand! I don't understand " Weber, who had gone out a...

...but she was unprepared for Carey's emotion. It was all too bewildering, too sudden, too tremendous. He sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands, struggling to grasp the significance of it all, to realise that his chance had come again, that his...

...proud of having written. You are rich, you are well spoken of everywhere. And you are a miserable man." He sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. My heart grew lighter as I looked upon him. He never answered me, never changed his dejected attitude....

...over his face, that the laughter of the boys was checked ; and they could not help but pity him as he sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. " We didn't mean to hurt your feelings," said Jim. " We did the same thing to all the boys. And, just...

...mind it was like a blow in the face — only it could not be resented. Conscious that he deserved it, he sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands. Presently he arose and moodily paced the floor. He tried to think it out. Confronting him at every...

...throat. He stole noiselessly through the hall and up the ladder-like stair to the room on the roof. There he sank into a chair and covered his face with his hands, fairly overcome with emotion. He had thought never to hear that glorious voice again. ' ' At last !...