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"The light! The light!" I cried. Guthrie ran and turned on the light. Nayland Smith, his eyes starting from his head, his face swollen, lay plucking at a silken cord which showed tight about his throat. "It was a Thug!" screamed Guthrie. "Get the rope off! He's choking!" My hands a-twitch, I seized the strangling-cord. "A knife! Quick!" I cried. "I have lost mine!"
'twere Old Nick as done it 'twere the devil as done it, weren't it ? oh! say 'twere the devil, Peter." And, seeing that hoary head all a-twitch with eagerness as he waited my answer, how could I do other than nod? "Yes, it was the devil, Ancient." The old man subsided into his chair; embracing himself exultantly. "I knowed it! I knowed it!" he quavered.
He saw one corner of the white Residency, showing through the sparse isisi palm at the end of the big garden a smudge of green on yellow from this distance. "I hate going even for six months," he said. Hamilton of the Houssas, with laughter in his blue eyes, and his fumed-oak face lean and wholesome it was all a-twitch, whistled with difficulty.
About noon he found the first water-hole and, what was more, found water in it. It was ugly, hot stuff, but his horse trotted to it with ears pricked forward and nostrils a-twitch and drank long and thirstily. Thereafter, though they came to other spots where there should be water, they found none until after sunset.
Trapes, turning the gaily bedecked box over and over, and glaring at it fierce-eyed. "Fer me?" "If you will deign acceptance." "Candy!" she repeated, elbows a-twitch. "Fer me? Land sakes, Mr. Geoffrey, I I " Here, very abruptly, she turned about and vanished into the kitchen. Mr. Ravenslee, lounging upon his white bed, was taking languid stock of his purchases when Mrs.
I had made a great fire and its light was strong, and there was also the light of the lanthorn; but the furnace flames played very lively, completely overmastering the steady illumination of the candle, and the man's figure was all a-twitch with moving shadows, and a hundred fantastic shades seemed to steal out of the side and bulkheads and disappear upon my terrified gaze.
Mr. Brimberly obeyed, and being much agitated dropped his cigar and grovelled for it, and it was to be noted thereafter that as the singers drew nearer, he shuffled on his chair with whiskers violently a-twitch, while his eyes goggled more and his domelike brow grew ever moister.
While the great congregation are ready to take the bread hot out of the oven shall the minister be crippled in his work because the village doctor or lawyer sits carping before him? To please a few learned ninnies a thousand ministers sit writing sermons on Saturday night till near the break of day, their heads hot, their feet cold, and their nerves a-twitch.
He stood for a moment, a-twitch, but intent upon the corridor door, then composed himself with indifferent success, approached and opened the door. The girl Chou Nu slipped in, offered a timid courtesy, and awaited his leave to speak. "Well? What is it?" "Excellency: the Princess Sofia refuses to let me stay in the room with her." "Why? Don't you know?" "I think she means to run away.
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