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Springing to her feet she confronted him with clinched hands and dilated eyes. Of all the words she had heard but one; he had gone! The poor old man tried to draw her down again into the shelter of his arms, but she seemed turned to stone, her slender form was rigid. 'Where is he? Where is Jarvis? What have you done with him, you, you! The quick unconscious accusation struck to his heart.
At a slight shake of the head, which Hermon interpreted as disapproval, he clinched his teeth; but soon his lips relaxed and his breast heaved with a sigh of relief, for the sunny glance that Myrtilus bent upon the face of the goddess seemed to show Hermon that it aroused his approval, and, as if relieved from an oppressive nightmare, he approached his friend.
The prince confessed in his heart that Kama had sacrificed much for him, and he felt compunction. "I have not been and shall not be with Sarah," said he. "But does it harm thee that the ill-fated woman has some comfort and can nourish her child unmolested?" Kama trembled. She raised her clinched fist, her hair stirred, and in her eyes an ugly fire of hate was flashing.
Renmark became deadly pale, and there was a dangerous glitter in his eyes. He drew back his clinched fist, in spite of the fact that the cocked revolver was edging closer and closer to him, and the constable held his struggling manacled hand with grim determination. "Hold on!" cried Yates, preventing the professor from striking the representative of the law.
The cords of their brawny necks played fast and free; the perspiration ran down their faces like rain upon glass. Their teeth clinched. They turned neither right nor left; but with their straining eyes fixed upon him, by his looks they judged both their own well-doing and the progress of their competitor. Seeing the boat pointed directly toward the Castle, the Prince watched the cloud.
Oh, you know it, sir, you know it it's your wife, preacher." John Ward sprang at the cowering figure of the big elder, and clinched his trembling hands on the man's shoulders, with an inarticulate cry. "My wife!" he said, between his teeth. "How dare you speak her name!" He stopped, struggling for breath.
"I only had a glimpse, but have no recollection of ever seeing him before. You heard no name?" "'Wild Bill' called him either Scott, or Scotty if this is the same man." Keith's jaw set, the fighting light burning in his eyes. That was the name of the fellow rooming with Willoughby, the one who seemed to be Hawley's special assistant. Was he here as a spy? His hands clinched on the rail.
As he passed his sire, with his brown curls streaming straight out behind, and his eyes flashing with excitement, his teeth clinched, and his horse tearing along more like an incarnate fiend than an animal, a spirit of combined recklessness, consternation, indignation, and glee took possession of him.
What's to be done?" demanded Fraser, sharply. "If you say the word, we'll shoot it out with them, and get away on the ship before " "We can't do that there are a dozen policemen in front here." "Well, you'll have to move quick, or they'll 'cop' you, sure." Boyd clinched his hands in desperation. "I guess they've got me," he said, bitterly. "There's no way out."
Their appearance produced an extraordinary effect on Michel Tellier. As they crossed the threshold one by one, the peasant leaned forward, his face flushed, his eyes gleaming; and he counted them. They were only five. And the others were twelve. He fell back, and from that moment his belief in the Girondins' power was clinched. "In the name of the law!" the mayor panted.
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