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Now his own breath came quick and fast, and he prayed to God that he might remember his sacred character and his vows, and not be led into great and deadly sin at the bidding of that proud, bitter face; and he clenched his left hand, and struck his brow with it. Thus, then, they came to the gate of the avenue of trees that led to the house.
And yet the law is such, the customs of society are such, that the woman cannot separate herself from that man save by the aid of legal proceedings whose scandal will fall upon herself and upon her child!" Monsieur Loches had been pacing up and down the room as he spoke, and now he clenched his fists in sudden fury. "Very well! I will not address myself to the law.
The quick, but sunken eyes of the sailor flashed fire; and he pressed his lips, and clenched his teeth together as one strongly attempting to restrain his indignation. It was but a momentary flashing of the chafed and bruised spirit. "You probe me deeply, Henry," he said calmly, and in a voice of much melancholy.
He is dead." "He got it as he should get it. He got no more than he'd have got if I'd been around." Buck's mood could no longer escape her. She looked into the hard, young face, startled. She saw the fury in his eyes, the clenched jaws, with their muscles outstanding with the force of the fury stirring him. The sight agitated her, but somehow it did not frighten. She half understood.
"Yes; he has, little as you are disposed to acknowledge it. You do not seem to know that he can compel your submission!" "Can he!" she hissed, drawing her breath sharply through her clenched teeth, and clutching her fingers convulsively, while a white ring gleamed around the blue iris of her dilated eyes. "Let him try! let him drive me to desperation, and then learn how spirits dare to escape!
You may feel that you may suppress emotion; but assume a smile, lifted eyebrows, a clenched fist, and it is impossible for you not to assume along with the gesture, if but for a moment, the emotion to which that gesture corresponds. In our marionettes, then, we get personified gesture, and the gesture, like all other forms of emotion, generalised.
I get damn mad. You give me job. I show you." Mascola shook his head. Leaning closer to the swaying figure, he said in a low voice: "Show me first." Boris's face became purple with rage as the import of Mascola's answer filtered into his thick skull. He clenched his huge hands and raised them above his head, mumbling all the while in his own tongue.
"Go go!" she cried out shrilly, hoarsely; her face was distorted with passion, her hands were clenched and trembling violently, "leave my sight leave my house you you ask me, by the love we bore Louis Champney, to save from his just deserts Louis Champney's bastard!" Her voice rose to a shriek; she shook her fist in Aurora's face, then sank into her chair and, seizing the bell, rang it furiously.
"About two hundred yards further down the road was a small lodge at one of the entrances of Rowchester. It was towards this I turned and ran. The door was closed, and I beat upon it fiercely with clenched fists. The woman who answered it stared at me strangely. I suppose that I was a wild-looking object. "It's Mr. Ducaine, isn't it?" she exclaimed. "Why, sakes alive! what's wrong, sir?"
Then he gulped, clenched his fists and lost color, for Cadet Furlong, without a word, had turned on his heel and walked away. "Griffin, what does Fur " Cadet Griffin, too, turned on his heel, passing on. "Dobbs " It was Dobbs's turn to show his back and stroll away.
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