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The letter was crumpled in Sabre's right hand. He was constricting it in his hand and knocking his clenched knuckles on the marble. "My boy. My dear, good boy. Oh, Sabre, Sabre!" He dropped his right arm and swung it by his side; to and fro; over the fender over the fire; over the hearth over the flames. "My Harold. Never to see his face again! My Harold."
I gave up my hold of the fishing-line most unwillingly, for the little adventure was intensely exciting, and every jerk and drag made by the creature that had seized my fish sent a thrill through my arms to my very heart. "It is some kind of sea-snake that has taken your fish, Nat, and is regularly constricting it.
Like the python, which grips its native rock by the tail in order to gain its full constricting power, so Bonaparte ever needed a groundwork of fact for the due exercise of his mental force. One of a group of generals, whom he had assembled about him near Montechiaro, proposed that they should ascend the hill which dominated the plain. Even from its ridge no Austrians were to be seen.
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