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Ellen stood as though dead, gazing at his movements with staring, bewildered eyes. When he went out to the door she collapsed. Pelle left his belongings downstairs with the mangling-woman, and he went mechanically toward the city; he heard no sound, no echo; he went as one asleep. His feet carried him toward the Labor House, and up the stairs, into the room whence the campaign was directed.
Here, for example, is a water-colour sketch of a rent and collapsed balloon falling to the earth from a height that must be appalling, if we are to accept as faithfully represented the neutral tones and dwarfed dimensions of the several features of the landscape that occupies the lower half of the picture.
What! had he spent barely three-quarters of an hour, chatting up yonder with that white old man who had just wrenched all his soul away from him! Yes, it was the final wrench; his last belief had been torn from his bleeding heart and brain. The supreme experiment had been made, a world had collapsed within him.
Suddenly he blinked queerly, grabbed Powell's shoulder and collapsed, subsiding all at once as though he had gone soft all over, as a piece of silk stuff collapses. Powell seized his arm instinctively and checked his fall; but as soon as Mr Smith was fairly on the floor he jerked himself free and backed away. Almost as quick he rushed forward again and tried to lift up the body.
Whereupon Taffadaln turned solemnly towards the speaker, and lifting her upper lip laughed, and with no more ado faced towards the palm trees, which to desert-trained eyes showed faintly some miles away, took two steps forward, humped herself together, collapsed on the ground, and stretching out her neck, half-closed her eyes.
Very likely she's right. I I have injured you. Oh, Maurice, if I have " "You'd have injured me a damn sight more if you hadn't married me!" he said. But for the moment her certainty that her marriage was a glorious and perfect thing, collapsed; her voice was a broken whisper: "If I've spoiled your life she says I have; I'll ... kill myself, Maurice."
The fiercely driven fist sank to the wrist into the soft tissues and the stricken man collapsed. But even as the blow landed, Costigan had seen that there was a third enemy, following close behind the two he had been watching, a pirate who was even then training a ray projector upon him.
Shout the glad news now and you go straight to the Tombs." This was obviously so true that the Senator collapsed into his chair again, and in so doing disturbed the fire-irons a second time. The incident amused the unbidden guest. "I see you won't be happy till I leave you," he laughed, "so let's go on with the knitting. That girl she is becoming a woman what is to be done with her?"
"Oh, Rex, did you? I am so glad. I am sure you will never regret it. You will always be glad that you did what your father wished, even if it is hard at the time. I think you are very, very good and kind, and unselfish." "All right! You needn't gush. I hate girls who gush," said Rex curtly; and Norah understood that she was to say no more on the subject, and collapsed into obedient silence.
Reade hesitated for a second or so, then struck the prostrate, choking enemy between the eyes. It was a fearful blow, and the man collapsed. "One down, but we must get the other!" Dick whispered sternly. They stole forward along the side of the building, Dick in the lead. Peeping around the corner he saw the sentry almost finishing the nearer end of his post. Back came Prescott's head like a shot.
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