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The hurdy-gurdy man lay down below in his cellar, and had as visitor that good friend of the north wind, the gout; and down in the deserted court the draught went shuffling along the dripping walls. Whenever any one entered the tunnel- entry the draught clutched at his knees with icy fingers, so that the pain penetrated to the very heart.
At his second stride he had his nose against it. He clutched the handle cautiously, but at that moment he received the irresistible impression of something happening behind his back. He spun round as though he had been tapped on the shoulder. He was just in time to see Wait's eyes blaze up and go out at once, like two lamps overturned together by a sweeping blow.
Having run every step of the way from the house, Arethusa was completely out of breath: and she could only lie panting for some moments, the Letter still clutched to her breast. The wind had died down, and it was as hot and close out here in the open under the trees as it had seemed in the shut-up sitting room. But she was far from any thought of physical discomfort now.
You don't allow that sort of thing, do you, here?" The two cowboys linked their arms through José's and led him off towards the door. "The stranger's right, José," one of them insisted. "You can't carve a girl up in company." The girl clutched at Craig's arm. "Sit down here, please," she begged. "Wait."
The death-like pallor of his face had given place to a purple hue; his veins seemed swollen; his blood-shot eyes appeared to be starting from their sockets; his stalwart frame shivered from head to foot; he clutched the table as though for support, and his head dropped heavily upon it. "My dear father," exclaimed Maurice, "do not let the mistake move you thus. I will go to Mr. Emerson at once"
He seized it with his left hand, with a quick pull and twist wrenched it off, and grinningly tossed it, as a joke, into the pandanus basket which still his wife with one hand held before him while with the other she clutched her forehead bleeding from a flying fragment of pistol.
Arnold's marvellous nerve was breaking down. He clutched my hand fiercely; his eyes danced; his mind was weakening. Almost in a moment the flesh had been cut away to the bones, which were now exposed, two ribs and the sternum. A few quick cuts cleared the weapon between the guard and the ribs. "To work, Hippolyte be quick!" The machinist had evidently been coached before he came.
Twice he clutched hold of the rocky bank opposite them, but it was too slippery, and his hold gave way. A man jumping across the chasm might possibly have saved him by risking his own life, for it was only fourteen feet wide; but it would have been madness for any of the ladies to have attempted it.
"We-dishonor?" exclaimed Nefert, and she nervously clutched at the cat. "Your brother lost enormous sums at play; to recover them he pledged the mummy of your father " "Horrible!" cried Nefert. "We must appeal at once to the king; I will write to him myself; for Mena's sake he will hear me.
On the morrow the ill-assorted fleet struggled up the sluggish Yazoo, past impenetrable forests where the cypress clutched at the keels, past long-deserted cotton fields, until it came at last to the black ruins of a home. In due time the great army was landed.
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