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Her eyes fixed upon this window, shining through the darkness, Adrienne remained as if fascinated by that fatal vision: and, as the spectacle filled up the measure of her fears, she called for help with all her might, without quitting the bars of the window to which she clung.
And amid all their misery they clung to that last hope, that help would come from France. So, however feeble they were, however faint with hunger, they would crawl in turns to the top of the hill above the fort straining their dimming eyes seaward. But no sail appeared. At length they gave up all hope, and determined to leave the hated spot.
He had never liked the church so much which his mother sometimes went to, and in which he had also been. That longing, which had clung to him ever since like a fairy tale, now came over him forcibly and vividly.
Her rage had incensed her so vehemently that she was unable to continue and stood with her hand outstretched and her chin twitching with nervous tremors. Renine gently took hold of Madame d'Ormeval's bag. She clung to it, but he insisted and said: "Please allow me, madame. Your friend Germaine is right.
As far as could be conjectured, she had drunk it between hurried readings from her mother's Bible; the one true companion to which she had often clung, always half-availingly. The Bible was found by her side, as if it had fallen from the chair before which she knelt to read her last quickening verses, and had fallen with her.
'You must not go! she answered, holding him as firmly as her strength allowed. 'You shall not, I tell you. 'For one hour, he pleaded earnestly. 'Not for one minute, she replied. 'I must Linton will be up immediately, persisted the alarmed intruder. He would have risen, and unfixed her fingers by the act she clung fast, gasping: there was mad resolution in her face. 'No! she shrieked.
But Tom ordered a drop and there the team clung, refusing to budge an inch further. "Time is almost up," said George Strong. "Three minutes more!" "Up!" cried Rockley. "Up and pull for all you are worth!" cried Tom. "Pull, I tell you! Make every ounce of muscle count!" And pull Tom's team did as never before, and Tom with them, watching for the first sign of returning weakness.
The woman stood over us, water streaming from her garments, staring like one in a dream at Leo's face, smothered as it was with blood running from a deep cut in his head. Even then I noticed how stately and beautiful she was. Now she seemed to awake and, glancing at the robes that clung to her splendid shape, said something to her companion, then turned and ran towards the cliff.
"A gold band of linked scarabs bound her short, thick hair straight across the forehead; thin scales of gold fell from a necklace, clothing her breasts in brilliant discolored metal, through which ivory-tinted skin showed. A belt of pure, soft gold clasped her body at the waist; gold-edged sandals clung to her little feet.
Somebody rose and struck them, and they knelt like the rest; but when prayer was over and cooking had begun and the camp became a place of savory smell, they came on again seven blind men. They were weary, ragged, lean seven very tatter-demalions and the front man led them, tapping the ground with a long stick. The others clung to him in line, one behind the other.
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