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With breathless eagerness she heard of the girl's flight from home, and of her rescue of Cuthbert from the very jaws of death. She could not understand Petronella's shuddering horror at the thought of having killed a man. "I would have killed fifty, and been glad to rid the earth of them were they such wretches as Long Robin!" she cried.
As they wrestled with and soothed her, a servant knocked. "A gentleman to see you, Sir, downstairs." Winnington descended, and found Andrews breathless with news. Eighty women arrested Miss Marvell among the ringleaders, for all of whom bail has been refused?
Sidrach, bursting into the presence of the high priest, exclaimed, "My lord, Esdras comes in haste. I saw him just now running down the street with rapid foot." Then said Annas, "Surely it is joyful news that he brings since he hastens so. Truly, I long for nothing now but the death of this malefactor." Then came Esdras, breathless with haste, crying, "Hail to the high priest.
For two months this story held all of us breathless. We felt some disquiet, we kept a watch on Moessard's face, considered that the lady was inclined to insist upon a great deal of ceremony; and our old cashier, with his dignified and serious air, when he was questioned on the matter, would answer gravely, behind his wire screen: "Nothing fresh," or "The thing is in a good way."
It was not until Lestrade succeeded in getting his hand inside his neckcloth and half-strangling him that we made him realize that his struggles were of no avail; and even then we felt no security until we had pinioned his feet as well as his hands. That done, we rose to our feet breathless and panting. "We have his cab," said Sherlock Holmes. "It will serve to take him to Scotland Yard.
'Can it be from the fort? Quickly the captain rang to slow still more. With barely steerage way the launch moved noiselessly forward. There followed some moments of breathless silence, while the three stared at the dull mysterious glow which was now almost exactly ahead. 'It's a craft of some sort, said Ken in a sharp whisper. 'The light's moving. 'You're right. Starboard a trifle, Morgan.
"Sleep on, beloved, sleep and take thy rest. Lay down thy head upon thy Saviour's breast, We love thee well, but Jesus loves thee best Good-night!" The others knelt, rapt, breathless, afraid to move lest they should break the spell and the sweet singing, or lose one of the beautiful words. Through the whole exquisite hymn she continued until the last verse was reached
I stood, awestruck and breathless, under the star-strewn roof of the great church; I knelt where Aurelia's knees must have kissed the storied pavement. I walked in the vast Campo, which has been called, and justly called, the finest piazza in Europe; wondered over the towered palace of the ancient Commune; prayed at the altar of St. Catherine.
"But but my mother will be that " "My mother will be that all of that, and more," Lance stopped her, still exulting in her love. "All the Lorrigans what does it matter? Life's for you and me to live, you girl with the bluest eyes in the world. When will you marry me? To-day? Tell me to-day!" "Oh!" gasped Mary Hope, breathless still from the suddenness of it all.
'Hark! 'A gun ready forward. 'Ay, ay, sir! was now heard out of the fog, which appeared to near us; 'all ready, sir. 'Fire! The report of the gun sounded on our ears like thunder, and then " "Well, and then?" said the captain of the Batavia, breathless.
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