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That first month had been one of the worst he had ever spent, Kennon reflected. Between Eloise and the flukes, he had nearly collapsed and when it had come to the final showdown, he thought for a while that he'd be looking for another job. But Alexander had been more than passably understanding and had refused his sister's passionate pleas for a Betan scalp.
I mopped my head with a handkerchief and sank back, gasping, in the arms of the minions of the law. The juge d'instruction ordered my removal, not back to my prison-cell but into his own ante-room, where I presently collapsed upon a very uncomfortable bench and endured the additional humiliation of having a glass of water held to my lips.
Well, this girl, whose own life must have collapsed under her in a peculiarly cruel and dramatic fashion so that she had had to come to him and ask him for a job in the chorus she had the hall-mark. She had besides a lot of the qualities that traditionally went with it, but often didn't. She was game game as a fighting-cock.
He collapsed with an explosive grunt; and the giant hands tossed him aside. It was a frightful wound which the monster had received, but for a few moments she paid no attention to it, being occupied in licking the trampled body of her young one with that amazing tongue of hers.
With a roar, the whole roof sprang into fire, buckled, collapsed; the veranda toppled. Smoke poured from the eight mansard windows of the Parker House, next door. South of the Parker House were single-storied buildings, one of wood, another of adobe; the first was a restaurant; over its roof several foreign-looking men spread rugs and upon them poured a red liquid. "It's wine," Bob Ridley said.
They knew only that bolts of death were striking them down. I heard endless thunders as the pistol report sent its echoes beating and rebounding against the confined walls of the fissure. Blue and slender lines of spiraling smoke went drifting out into the air. I caught a glimpse of two bolder spirits stopping to drag away their dead. Then I collapsed and lay for hours where I had fallen.
And, mad with horror, she emitted without cessation a lamentable sound like the howling of a dog. "We can't let him die like that," said Jacques, distracted. "We must get down there." "Perhaps we could slide down the beams and save him," remarked Pierre. And they started toward the neighboring roof, when the second house collapsed, leaving a gap in the route. Then a chill seized us.
A convulsive effort to regain my equilibrium, and a stifled cry for mercy, are all I recollect my heart collapsed, and all consciousness ceased. How long I continued in this state I have no means of ascertaining; my first sensation was a sickness that almost made me again relapse into insensibility, accompanied by a feeling of pain in all my limbs.
Gypsy Nan's voice was scarcely audible. "You'll play the game, won't you? You'll you'll see me through. That's a good name as good as any Charlotte Green that's all you know but but don't leave me alone with them you you'll come to the hospital with me, won't you I " Gypsy Nan had collapsed in a heap on the sidewalk. Rhoda Gray glanced swiftly around her.
But to my dismay the bent and feeble septuagenarian offered to lead off with myself as partner, at which I collapsed, for alas, I cannot dance. Then our trustee led the roars of laughter that testified to my discomfiture. So we had no dancing, only a cakewalk. But we had more merriment and music, and then our little evening service. "What hymn shall we have?"
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