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The frightened horse leaped. Another bullet whistled past Duane. Then the bend in the road saved him probably from certain death. Like the wind his fleet steed wend down the long hill. Duane was in no hurry to look back. He knew what to expect. His chief concern of the moment was for his injured arm.
A torrent of words issued from his lips, and he flung out an arm, the fist clenched, in a fierce, quick gesture, partly of despair, partly of defiance, partly of supplication. "No, your God would not take her part. Where was God's mercy in that? Where was Heaven's protection in that? Where was the loving kindness you preach about? Why did God give her life if it was to be stamped out?
'How tempting, that fire looks! said Robert, re-entering the study. 'Were you very cold, Langham, before you lit it? 'Very, said Langham smiling, his arm behind his head, his eyes fixed on the blaze; 'but I have been delightfully warm and happy since. Catherine stopped beside the drawing-room window with a start, caught by something she saw outside.
Marcella put her arm round the shaking woman. The door opened; and beyond the three figures as they passed out, her eye passed to the waiting crowd, then to the misty expanse of common and the dark woods behind, still wrapped in fog. When Mrs. Hurd saw the rows of people waiting within a stone's throw of the door she shrank back.
I always felt that by the time the lawyers and the heirs and the witnesses got through, there wouldn't be much left of it, anyway!" Too rich in her new position of the woman beloved by Peter to quarrel with Martin in the old unhappy fashion, Cherry laid an appealing hand on his arm.
"At the first volley I had hurried sister to a place of concealment in the underbrush, and she, hearing them search for the survivors after the shooting was over, thought we were discovered, and sprang up to run further. One of them saw her and shot. She fell half-fainting with a bullet through her arm, and then half a dozen of them gathered quickly about her.
"'Think, said he, and he leaned over the desk, and spoke in a gruesome whisper which made the cold run down our backs, 'that yon paper was your finger, one finger only of your hand, and it burned like that for ever and ever, and think of your hand and your arm and your whole body all on fire, never to go out. We shuddered that you might have heard the form creak.
A part of the animal requires attention, it is composed of an outer cup, or circular lip, which it has the power of contracting or expanding in the same manner as the valve; and when opened out like a cup, an orifice can be seen at the bottom of it. It can also expand, and make broad the arm; and it then appears to use them as sails.
I am quite well it was my knees that gave way 'Where do ye live, my lass? said he, taking hold of her arm to support her; for he thought she was going to sink to the ground again. 'Number twelve. 'In this street? She did not answer, 'Come, I will help ye home, then. 'No, no! she said, in the same gasping way; 'I will sit down here a few minutes. I shall be all right. I I am quite well
To the west, beyond a cluster of small and nameless lakes that lie on the plain, we see the other arm of the lake, with Ponte Tresa nestling upon it, and still farther west the sun gleams on the waters of Lago Maggiore. Above Porlezza is Monte Legnone, and far away on the left glint the snow peaks of the Bernina.
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