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"Down with you, quick," I went on, "and let's draw that lion-skin over our heads. It may help to keep the dust from choking us. Hurry, men; it's coming!" Coming, it was indeed, with a mighty, wailing roar.
There was not a moment for her to do more than give a sort of shrieking, despairing command, "Down, Kirby!" when, just as the beast was springing on her, his throat was seized by the powerful hands that alone could have grappled with him, and the terrible head, foaming, and making horrid choking growls, was swung round from her, and the dog lifted by the back of the neck in the air, struggling and kicking violently.
It crept into the house, choking the besieged, causing their eyes to smart and their heads to ache, and scenting clothes, linen, furniture. Even the food tasted of it. The kelp-making, however, was but a memory now, though a pungent one.
The more did Dea plead, the more did he become convinced that already her choice of a husband was made, and that that husband was destined to wrench the sceptre of Cæsar from him and to mount Cæsar's throne over his murdered body. With a brutal gesture he pushed the young girl from him. "Silence!" he shouted, as soon as choking rage enabled him to speak.
They've put her in a cell." "Arrested?" "Yes, for stealin'." Involuntarily his fingers brushed his throat as if he were choking, but no words came. He had been all his life accustomed to surprises, some of them appalling, but against this, for the instant, he had no power to stand.
She tried to get away, making him furious; he thought it was fear, of the pain of his clutch he did not understand that it was the agony of her shame. Still she answered him, "Connor." "Connor," he gasped. "Who is Connor?" "The boss," she answered. "The man " He tightened his grip, in his frenzy, and only when he saw her eyes closing did he realize that he was choking her.
He forgets everything now, and, catching her hands, holds them tightly in his own. "Give me another trial," entreats he. "No, no!" She speaks as if choking, but for all that she draws her hands out of his. "It would be madness. You would tire. We should tire of each other in a week where there is no love. No, no!" "You refuse, then?" "I refuse!" "Tita " She turns upon him passionately.
He could say no more. Surely the blessing that, for choking sobs, could not find utterance on earth, was heard in heaven, and abundantly returned upon the brave and desolate spirit of him who strove to pronounce it.
He needed but one glance to realize Eve's condition, and his heart was filled with a great rage. Who? Who had done this thing? was the question that ran through his mind as he set to work to undo the cruel bonds that held her to her chair. It was the work of a few moments to remove the gag that was nearly choking her. Then the knots about her wrists and feet were swiftly undone.
But Waller's heart beat fast and a strange choking sensation seemed to rise in his breast as the boy, hampered by his stiff petticoat-trousers, had no little difficulty in getting clear of the window. The next minute he was letting himself glide down, rustling loudly through the ivy.
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