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Then Gilbert ground his teeth silently and did the best he could, retracing his steps over many miles, exploring a new road, and choking down the humiliation bravely, because he had given his word.
With a terrifying shock, the envelope which had held him vanished. Shann was choking, struggling in water. He flailed out with his arms, kicked his legs. One hand grated painfully against stone. Hardly knowing what he did, but fighting for his life, Shann caught at that rock and drew his head out of water.
Finding himself completely submerged for the first time, Neewa hung on gloriously, and when the log righted itself again he was tenaciously hugging his old place, all the froth washed from him. He looked for Miki but Miki was gone. And then he felt once more that choking drag on his neck!
"Where am I?" said Kaya faintly, "You are choking me, Velasco!" She struggled to a sitting posture, leaning on one elbow, and peered up into his face. "What has happened?" she said again, "Where are we? I thought we were tramping through the snow and my feet were frozen! You are pale, Velasco, and your eyes are heavy! Have I slept?"
Help I'm choking," it gasped. "Never in the history of maritime invention has such a calamity over-taken one so young and strong. And if I go, who's to drive the ship?" "Hush! oh, hush!" whispered the Steam, who, of course, had been to sea many times before. He used to spend his leisure ashore in a cloud, or a gutter, or a flower-pot, or a thunder-storm, or anywhere else where water was needed.
When they came to Bobs he held her back for a moment. The pony was nearly done. As they looked his head beat the ground again unavailingly, and at the piteous sight a dry sob broke from Norah, and she went on her knees by him. "Norah dear little chap you mustn't." Jim's voice was choking. "He doesn't know what he's doing, poor old boy it isn't safe." "He wants me," she said. "Bobs dear Bobs!"
An arm, clothed in some silken material, encircled his throat. He felt himself choking. And at the same moment a strange and irrational terror seized him. He seemed in the grasp of something uncanny, something inhuman, in spite of its very human cries.
Hippolyte suddenly burst into a fit of hysterical laughter, which turned into a choking cough. "Observe," he gasped, through his coughing, "what a fellow Gania is! He talks about Nastasia's 'leavings, but what does he want to take himself?" The prince sat silent for a long while. His mind was filled with dread and horror.
At last he had yielded to the urging of his friends, officious mediators between himself and the family of the girl, and that morning he was on his way to breakfast at the house in Valldemosa where Valls resided the greater part of the year for relief from the asthma which was choking him. Jaime made an effort to remember Catalina.
He may fish in his tin hat with a bent pin first or he may shoot you on sight, but I'd go at once if I were you. You stand more chance." Undoubtedly the sight which confronted them on rounding the traverse justified their worst fears. The Doctor recoiled with a choking noise and endeavoured to wave the Staff officer forward. "Not on your life, Doc.," remarked that worthy grimly "not on your life.
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