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Too late, she sobbed on Noreen's shoulder, she had found her soul-mate, the man destined for her through the past æons, the one man who could make her happy and whose existence she alone could complete. Why had she met Dermot too late? Why was she tied to a clod, mated to a clown? Why were two lives to be wrecked? As Noreen listened amazed an icy hand seemed to clutch her shrinking heart.
'Do tell us the rest, pleaded Mysie, and Ericson resumed. 'There was no weapon at hand; and if there had been, his inborn chivalry would never have allowed him to harm a woman even under the guise of a wolf. Instinctively, he set himself firm, leaning a little forward, with half outstretched arms, and hands curved ready to clutch again at the throat upon which he had left those pitiful marks.
The words cut like saber thrusts. But when a man finds the walls of his house about to fall on him he is apt to clutch blindly at anything which promises to prop the tottering structure. "It is cowardly, I confess," he said. "But what am I to do? Besides, I love her. You know I would not marry without love, even to avert financial ruin."
We learn things only to throw them away: no man ever wrote well until he had forgotten every rule of rhetoric, and no orator ever spake straight to the hearts of men until he had tumbled his elocution into the Irish Sea. To hold on to things is to lose them. To clutch is to act the part of the late Mullah Bah, the Turkish wrestler, who came to America and secured through his prowess a pot of gold.
The woman stretched a claw-like hand forth and laid it on the shoulder of the girl. "Don't you argify with me Mary Allan. I want her." There seemed to be no doubt in Mary's mind as to whom Aunt Becky wanted. "Sister Angela is at prayer, Aunt Becky," she whispered, trying to escape from the clutch upon her shoulder. "Mary Allan go tell her I want her. Go!"
The clouds had swallowed the moon again, and she could see nothing below her; but she still heard the tumult in the beaten water. "Cobham! Cobham!" she screamed. As if in answer, she felt a mighty clutch on the oar, a clutch that strained her arms to the breaking-point as she tried to brace her knees against the runners of the sliding floor. "Hold on! Hold on!
Brassy's pistol fired a second shot as he fell, but it was from the death clutch upon the trigger, and the bullet went over the heads of the crowd, while instantly was heard the doctor's quiet tones: "Come, men, who volunteers as courier to Faraway?" A young man stepped promptly forward and answered: "I was a soldier at Faraway, sir, and know the trail. I will go."
Elsa began to experience a sensation like that which attends the imagination of one in the clutch of a nightmare: she hung in mid-air: she could neither retreat nor go forward. Just before she retired she leaned over the rail, watching the reflection of the stars twist and shiver on the smooth water. Suddenly she listened. She might have imagined it, for at night the ears deceive. "Jah, jah!"
She wanted to push her on her way instead of holding her back, and at the same time she was striving to clutch her as she went her way. Yes, that was it. Joan was already started; nothing could hold her back but still the battle waged, while Doris smiled tremblingly. "I know, Aunt Dorrie, I know. It hurts but but oh! listen, dear.
Fortunately the lanterns on the various canoes and row-boats, as well as the light on the bow of Tom's Kilo, made an illumination that gave the rescuers a good chance to work. Many other boats besides Tom's had headed for the scene, but his was the more practical, since the others all quite small ones were pretty well filled. "There they are, Ned!" Tom suddenly cried. "Throw out the clutch!
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