He seemed perplexed and worried, so much so that for some time he paced his room restlessly and then, instead of turning in, he went back to the sitting-room, lighted a pipe, and settled himself there to await his friend's return.

The driver-guide of La Roque turned out to have been a thorough-paced scamp, well and ill-known to the gendarmerie; the wound sustained by Monsieur d'Aubrac bore testimony to the gravity of the affair, amply excusing Duchemin's interference and its fatal sequel; while the statements of Mesdames de Sévénié et de Montalais, duly becoming public property, bade fair to exalt the local reputation of André Duchemin to heroic stature.

So waited they all three, what time the slow-pacing hoofs drew near and nearer, until, peering through the leaves, they beheld a knight, who rode low-stooping in his saddle, to mark their tracks plain upon the tender grass.

A TALE OF WOE XXII THE CONFESSION CHAPTER I INTRODUCING "MUMBLES" Major Gregory Doyle paced nervously up and down the floor of the cosy sitting room.

Occasionally at the end of a quiet path I would see a black figure pacing backward and forward, with eyes fixed on a breviary.

He paced his deck impatiently, occasionally turning his eye to every quarter, surveying the horizon for some sign of a gale of wind.

He began pacing backwards and forwards across the room as if with the purpose of avoiding looking at her.

" The captain paced the deck uneasily, occasionally muttering: "Zounds, don't I wish I had a few heavy guns.

Such a man ought really to be confined," he continued, pacing thoughtfully up and down the room.

Through the village he paced moodily, the bridle dangling loosely on the mare's neck.

Morgianna!" called the old man, starting to his feet and pacing the floor anxiously.

North and south, and east and west the challenge was repeated, and after each the trumpet sounded a warlike flourish, yet no horseman paced forth and no man leapt the barriers; and the witch Mellent drooped pale and trembling betwixt her warders.

The marquis clung to the topmost branches, looking at the still sky far above him, the still stream far below him, the still tree-tops far around him, till he caught a glimpse of the only interesting object to be seena black pony bearing its usual burden, if Alice Miller could be called a burden, and pacing leisurely up the road beneath him.

He arose under the spur of violent varied emotions, pacing the spot excitedly, wrestling with the problem that threatened to destroy all his fond youthful ambitions.

It was a steady-paced, slow-going steed.

A human form was seen swiftly pacing her poop, and, by its side, glided one who looked like a lessened shadow of that restless figure.

The guns-bristled from this fortress with menacing aspect, and the sentinels, in light blue uniforms and Kosciusko caps, silently paced the ramparts with automatic regularity.

he continued; and he paced hurriedly for a few minutes across the apartment, casting a rapid glance upon the portraits of his ancestors.

If I were a monk, and thou wert a nun, Pacing it wearily, wearily, From chapel to cell till day were done, Wearily, wearily, Oh!

In opening, it struck against the back of Mr. Roundjacket, who, pacing hastily up and down the apartment, seemed to be laboring under much excitement.

" She went up to her room, and, when she had rung for her maid, paced up and down feverishly.

Thus the halcyon months passed, until, one August day in 1741, the Comtesse was seized with a slight fever; Louis, consumed by anxiety, spending the anxious hours by her bedside or pacing the corridor outside.

He clenched his fists and paced boldly up and down the hearthrug.

This when I saw, inquisitive to know The secret moral of the mystic show, 460 I started from my shade, in hopes to find Some nymph to satisfy my longing mind: And as my fair adventure fell, I found A lady all in white, with laurel crown'd, Who closed the rear, and softly paced along, Repeating to herself the former song.

Then Pintal paced briskly to and fro a few turns across the narrow floor of his tent, and presently stopping, said,his first cheerfulness, with its unwonted smile, returning, "But I must tell you why I should be happy today.