Madeleine hesitated; she wished to enlighten her credulous aunt, and yet hesitated to distress her.
Determined on making the sacrifice, in spite of her repugnance toward the man, she wished to have the deed done at once; anything was preferable to this terrible anxiety, to the life of torture which Raoul made her lead.
She wished to be alone in her trouble, and see if she could decide upon some plan for warding off this impending ruin.
With an imperious gesture Madeleine interrupted him as if she wished to speak, and perhaps to explain all, to exculpate herself.
She questioned him regarding the past; she wished to know how he had lived, what he had been doing.
She wished to find out how deep his grievance lay.
She wished to bring the talk back to marriage again, in order to hear Aunt Charlotte's views, but she did not know how to do this.
She wished Ralph to feel, as she thought he would, all the fresh delights of the earth and air.
Her mother was the last person she wished to resemble, much though she admired her.
She wished that no one in the whole world would think of her.
Arriving at her own door, she wished him a cool good-evening, and he turned away in the direction of his hotel.
I explained to Isabel how quiet at the first, and she might have retracted had she wished.
Lady Isabel remonstrated; she wished to go farther on, where they might get quicker news from England; but her will now was as nothing.
She will be relieved; she wished it to be known; but I thought it best to wait for my promotion--the only chance of our being able to marry.
She wished much to know what had been said in the letter; but only one sentence transpired, and that was, that Mr. Edmonstone had never heard it was necessary to apply to a nephew for consent to a daughter's marriage.
It would be of no use,' said Charlotte, shaking her head, as if she wished he would prove her further.
She could not influence her schoolmates as she wished.
Yet she insisted on being called; she wished to show her love for one who had been such a friend to her.
She wished to make her feel her inferiority; to relieve Jack of his burden if he would not do it himself.
She sat, after he had risen, as if she wished to detain him, but when he came up to take leave she had to put her hand in his.
She wished to talk about herself; and as she had already had flattery enough, she wanted some truth about herself; she wanted Alan to say what he thought of her behavior the whole evening with that jay.
Late in the afternoon she heard Mary Enderby's voice in the reception-room, bidding the man say that if Miss Bessie were lying down she would come up to her, or would go away, just as she wished.
She wished me to spend the rest of the night with her; but it would have been necessary to make up a bed for me, and disturb the whole household.
Feeling the approach of the storm, she wished to be up, and ready to meet it.
Favoral looked as if she wished to drop on her knees before the old lawyer.
Madame still waited; she wished to know if the king would speak to her of the adventure of the royal oak.
If she wished to invite the Miss Milvains to St Paul's Crescent, he only begged that the times and seasons of the household might not be disturbed.
She wished to answer, but a spirit of perversity held her tongue.
She wished to ask what had taken place between father and daughter in the brief interview before dinner; but Marian gave her no chance, quitting the room upon those last trembling words.
She wished to know if her mother had heard any private remarks on this subject, but she could not bring herself to ask directly.
She wished that he would wake, though she knew how the smile would fade, how the features would grow cold and indifferent, and how the grey eyes she loved would open with a look of annoyance at seeing her before him.
She wished to hear the lady's footstep when she left her room to go to the church, and she sat down and remained motionless, fearing lest her own footfall should prevent the sound from reaching her.
She had formed the bold scheme of attaching him to herself, by visions of the woman whom he loved as she wished to be loved by him.
She wished that, like him, she could escape from the wound of the word in a senseless lethargy of body and mind.
She wished him to sleep, whether she slept herself or not, and she put the most hopeful face possible upon the matter.
She wished to test the enormity, and yet not find it so monstrous, by submitting the case to her husband, and she could scarcely keep back her impatience at seeing Ellen instead of her father.
She had, I believe, the usual allowance of rather vain motives: she wished to be looked at, she wished to be married, she wished to be thought original.
Madame de Lamotte saw this, and understood from my looks that I was not satisfied with the explanation she wished me to accept.
She wished to go in search of him, but the world is wide, and no single trace remained to guide her.
Here is the mystery, this is the reason which has kept her from you, and as she knew you would hear it with delight, she wished to have the pleasure of telling you herself.
Her first words were about her child; she wished to see it, kiss it; she asked where it was.
She would wear the beautiful dresses that came when she wished for them, and visit her neighbours, who would be dying of envy all the while, and she would be able to dance as much as she wished.
Next morning was a holiday, and Barbaik was awake earlier than usual, as she wished to get through her work as soon as possible, and be ready to start for a dance which was to be held some distance off.
However it was, she could not rally; and one day Mary received a telegram saying that if she wished to see Jinny alive, she must come at once.
For Tilly was summoned back to Melbourne with all speed, if she wished to see her mother alive.
She wished to give no opening to any expressions of sympathy on the part of Madame de Nailles.
I should have been glad to be, as she wished, one of Giselle's witnesses, but people don't take my position into consideration.
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