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He whirled himself loose and leaned his body against the wall, turning his face toward it. Suddenly he made a choking sound and began to sob. "Hell!" he choked. "I'll give it up! I'll give it up!"
At the time Draycott did not know he was a Major-General: he was just a supreme being resplendent in a green silk dressing-gown. The door closed, only to open again at once. "I have forgotten my sponge," he announced. "I shall not be a moment." He gazed directly at Draycott, who bowed, choking slightly.
A leaden pallor settled suddenly upon her. When the prayer was finished they waited eyed each other waited again. There was no other breath. "Doctor " Annie cried, choking. The doctor gently laid down the limp hand he had raised; it was already cool. And behind him the maids began to sob and wail unrebuked. Norma went out into the hall dazed and shaken. This was her first sight of death.
And feeling, at last, that he was in danger of choking over the babble that surged up from within him, Daddy Longlegs decided that he would go and call on Rusty Wren, who lived in the cherry tree near Farmer Green's bedroom window. "Rusty will be glad to know of my ride in the wagon," Daddy thought.
After a bit I crawled off the bed. My head felt funny, and I was almost choking with the smoke. He laid down the book and looked up at me. "Shall we begin?" he asked. "I don't care what you do," I growled. "I'm going outdoors." "Not yet," said he. He got up and locked the door and put the key in his pocket. "You forget the lesson." "You let me out, darn you!" I yelled. "I'm not going to study.
They had not time, however, to speak hardly to wonder to themselves before, all frisking and frolicking at an end, the shaggy ball was upon them, and, with a rush that for half a second made Pamela inclined to scream, the little dog flew at them, barking, yelping, almost choking with delight, flinging himself first on one then on the other, darting back a step or two as if to see them more distinctly and make sure he was not mistaken, then rolling himself upon them again all quivering and shaking with rapture.
Choking down an urgent dread that I had of touching the thing which reached through the window to kill the sleeper, I sprang across the room and grasped the rigid, hairy forearms. Heavens! Never have I felt such muscles, such tendons, as those beneath the hirsute skin!
Fenton, but when he met her he at first could say nothing. He stammered brokenly, tears choking his voice, holding her hand in his, and vainly striving to put into words the sympathy he felt. Then he stooped suddenly and kissed her hand. "Our boys," he said, with awkward phrasing, but with an instinct which reached to the ground of their deepest sympathy.
For a moment there was a fearful lashing. The choking serpent, with protruding eyes, like small green coals, and jaws distended in agony, strove to dislodge his suffocating enemy, and the other humped his back and leapt backward in frantic efforts to reach the air again. But suddenly their struggles ceased; they flattened to the ground, only the tails moving automatically.
It was Hartfield's strong arm that caught her, held her as in a vice, dragged her away from the edge of the deck, just where there was a space open to the waves. Another instant and she would have flung herself overboard. She fell back into Lord Hartfield's arms, with a wild choking cry: 'Let me go!
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