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The wind blew and the rope swayed more and more as it was let down, and sometimes he was dashed against the rocky sides of the precipice; but still he descended, and at last stood on the rock and clasped his son in his arms. But there was no time to lose. Hubert mounted on his father's shoulders, holding the rope while his father bound his boy close to him.
The boy sprang to his feet at their call and looked wildly about. Two big hands clasped his arms, and a moment later the slight figure came pathetically across the intervening space between the stalwart guards. "Why has he remained here, certain of arrest?" demanded Lorry in surprise. "He was safer with me than anywhere else, Mr. Lorry.
"No, my daughter. Both attacks were repulsed." Zulma clasped her hands to her forehead and would have sunk to the floor had she not been sustained by the good priest. "Courage, my dear," he said "Excuse me for telling you these things, but I saw from your deportment in the church that you knew nothing of them, and I thought it would be well that I should be the first to inform you."
Long shalt thou live, and the Most High shall prepare thy seat in Gan Iden." So the old man and the young clasped hands across the corpse, and the simple old Rabbi perceived a smile flickering over the face of Chayah's father. Perhaps it was only a sudden glint of sunshine. The wedding-day drew nigh, but lo! Chayah was again dissolved in tears. "What ails thee?" said her brother Naphtali.
"Yes, I have long known it, he has no shadow;" and she flung herself into the arms of her mother, who, terrified, clasped her convulsively, and upbraided her that to her own hurt she had kept to herself such a secret. But she, like Arethusa, was changed into a fountain of tears, which at the sound of my voice flowed still more copiously and at my approach burst forth in torrents.
You aren't all of you miners, so I will explain further that to drill into rock with a double-jack and steel drill is not sport for greenhorns exactly. The drill-turner needs a lot of faith and a little nerve, because one blow of the double-jack may break a hand clasped just below the head of the drill.
Now it was his turn to close her sad lips with his fingers, saying: "Again! I beg that you will speak no more of that. I swear to you that you deceive yourself." "Oh, if you will only love me a little," she repeated. "Yes, I love you," he said again. They remained a long time without speaking, hands clasped in hands, deeply moved and very sad.
"No, no this!" the priest said, and laid his iron crucifix against the other's lips. Dominique's voice came clearly through the room: "Mother, I saw the white swan fly away through the door when you came in." "My dear, my dear," she said, "there was no white swan." But she clasped the boy to her breast protectingly, and whispered an ave. "Peace be to this house," said the voice of the priest.
"He lifted his visor. All saw his awful face. The proud princess shrieked. "'Come to my arms, my bride, he cried. 'I have won you fairly. I am the king who conquers all kings! "He clasped her fainting form to his breast and spurred his white horse to the tombs. A tempest of rain broke over the valley and blotted them from sight.
He stood on one of the seats, swinging a lantern in his hand, and as she spoke he sprang toward her. Still clutching the altar railing with one hand, she knelt, with her white suffering face upturned piteously to him, and stooping he threw his arms around her and clasped her to his heart. "My darling, God has been merciful to you and me!"
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