Now, as Paul Burton sat opposite Loraine Haswell at one of the small and snowy tables, he sought to cloak his nervousness under a guise of debonair ease and soon the woman was embarked upon the recital of her grievances.
This evening it was a benefit recital at the Plaza.
Barola is giving a violin recital at Carnegie Hall.
As he turned from a congratulatory group when the recital was ended, one of the women whom he knew only by reason of her activity in arranging the entertainment, stopped him.
The duke listened with extreme attention to the recital of my interview in the grove surrounding the Baths of Apollo, as well as to the account of the discourse I had held there with the strange female.
Her recital made me shudder, and I promised her that henceforward her life should be rendered as happy as it had hitherto been miserable.
Certainly," replied the countess, "although the recital is calculated to bring the blush of shame into my cheek.
Such was the fortunate termination of this disgraceful affair; and now, having completed my painful confession, I will change the subject to others doubtless more calculated to interest you than the recital of such lapses.
My unknown friend evidently divined all that was passing in my mind, for she observed, "I perceive that my recital appears to you improbable; one particular which I will state may perhaps overcome your incredulity.
Louis XV seemed greatly interested with the recital of it; he asked me a thousand questions, and would fain hear the most trifling particulars.
My recital inspired him with the most lively curiosity to see Rousseau, whom he had never met in society.
I admired the courage of the seamen, and gained his heart by importuning him for a recital of his adventures, and a sight of his foreign curiosities.
The recital of the Valiant generations, the size of the estate, the position into which its heir had stepped by very reason of being who he was, appealed to her instinct and imagination and respect for blood.
The recital of the tragic waste, the nepotism, the mole-like ramifications by which the vast structure had been undermined, had left them rather amusedly and satirically appreciative.
The count listened to the recital of their preparations with his usual absent interest in everything not turning upon Art, politics, or social intrigue.
An ancient and mighty spell, the recital of which prevented the deceased from dying a second time.
The recital of Chapter LXIII enabled the deceased to avoid drinking boiling water in the Tuat.
At this fresh recital of her loss, the little, smeared face began to pucker again.
Fortunately for Wickersham, she was so much engrossed in her recital that she did not observe her companion's face until he had recovered himself.
Martin decided he would not trouble Little Billy with a recital of MacLean's outburst.
Martin became suddenly aware that the recital was ended, and that three unlike, friendly faces were beaming upon him with smiling lips.
While reclining, as she was obliged to do a great part of the day, on her couch, she listened to the recital or reading of whatever occurred of interest, at home or abroad.
The reality of the terrible dangers, as pointed out by Cardinal Donnet, was confirmed by Senators Tourangin and Viscount de Baral, in the recital of other cases of premature interment.
But God willed otherwise, as will be learned from the recital of God's dealings with me on an occasion of a journey alone in a carriage from Troy to Schenectady.
The recital of his adventure obliterated for the time all sense of their own desires, and they thanked God together that their loss had been the widow's gain.
Now, I take it then from your recital that his discharge was for the reasons you have given and not because of any past history that you discovered with respect to him?
It was with feelings of horror and terror that the Christian children listened to this fearful tale, and Indiana read in their averted eyes and pale faces the feelings with which the recital of the tale of blood had inspired them.
Catharine listened, not without tears of genuine sympathy, to the recital of her brother's adventures.
It riveted the attention of his hearers, and they listened with eager ears to Dorlan's recital of the workings of the forces and counter forces that brought about their emancipation.
They could hardly listen to her recital of the claims of the book for stealing glances at her well shaped, queenly poised head, her pleading, thrilling eyes, her beautiful face, her perfect form.
They all listened critically to Beulah's recital of the trouble.
After the first outburst of grief and sympathy that followed the recital of her sad affliction, Emma at last said to Irma, who had again and again pressed her to her heart: "Your embraces are so passionate.
In therecital of the death sentences in the order of the Adjutant-General directing their execution, the sentence of the woman differed in no respect from the three sentences of the men which preceded it.
We turn aside with sickening horror from the recital of the murderous orgies of the Terrorists of the French Revolution--shedding the blood of the young, the tender, the beautiful, the brave.
Great as the credence was, as a result of the recital of her wrongs, it received a reinforcement from another source that seemed to place it beyond question.
The salient facts of his eventful life are barely more than touched, but even from so short a recital of his services, certain unquestioned facts fix his fame.
Absorbed in his theme, and forgetting her inability to follow him, Moffatt launched out on an epic recital of plot and counterplot, and she hung, a new Desdemona, on his conflict with the new anthropophagi.
The recital of events became, however, more and more brief: the fighting pilot had not time enough to write details; nobody had any time in the Storks Escadrille, constantly engaged as it was in its triumphant flights.
The recital of the girl's history made him burn with hot anger against her.
In his recital of the final scene in the cabin Maru spoke of the white woman and the two girls coming out of their state-room and kneeling down and praying with their arms clasped around each other's waists.
I shall go at once and annihilate that machine," said the Director, rising when the recital was finished.
Hartmann to the traveller's father, relate that, according to the recital of a felatah of Bornou, Vogel was merely held as a prisoner at Wara.
Meanwhile, during the doctor's recital and Joe's response, the forest had given place to a large collection of huts surrounding an open space.
Once, during the recital of the defendant, Sara almost seemed to bleed her tears, so poignantly terrible they came, scorching her eyes of a pain too exquisite to be analyzed, yet too excruciating to be endured.
