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Thorvald had stopped paddling at last, because that paddle had to be put to another use. Had Shann not released his hold on the log and gone under water, that crudely fashioned piece of wood might, have broken his skull. He saw only too clearly the paddle raised in both hands as an ugly weapon, and Thorvald's face, convulsed in a spasm of rage which made it as inhuman as a Throg's.
He missed you, sir, when you went away. Not that he'd say a word, but he moped. His books didn't seem to please him, nor anything else. I've just broke my heart over him this last year. There was silence a moment in the big room, hung round with the shapes of bygone Wendovers. The opiate had taken effect. The Squire's countenance was no longer convulsed.
Preferences of this kind are always to be remarked on such occasions. 'Second prize be hanged! growled the young man, as, with a flush of shame on his ruddy countenance, he set forth to receive the honour, leaving Mr. Warricombe convulsed with silent laughter. 'He would far rather have had nothing at all, murmured Sidwell, who shared her brother's pique and humiliation.
Only have a care to take or destroy him, for if you do not, by God, you shall be detailed to the batteaux and cool your heels in Fort Sullivan until we return!" We both laughed heartily, and Boyd added: "He said it to fright me for my impudence. Trust that man to know a man when he sees one!" "Meaning yourself?" said I, convulsed.
They had a merry little supper after they got home, and Polly gave them a burlesque opera that convulsed her hearers, for her spirits rose again and she was determined to get the last drop of fun before she went back to her humdrum life again. "I 've had a regularly splendid time, and thank you ever so much," she said when the "good-nights" were being exchanged.
"My good God! that ever I should ha' lived to say it, but I say it again, you little fool!" Tess was convulsed with weeping, the tension of so many days having relaxed at last. "I know it I know I know!" she gasped through her sobs. "But, O my mother, I could not help it! He was so good and I felt the wickedness of trying to blind him as to what had happened!
The doctor would have passed him by with a haughty nod, but with one leap Wilde was at his side, his strong hands closing around his throat, while he cried out, in a voice fairly convulsed with passion: "Aha! You have walked right into my net, and at the right moment. Where is Bernardine? She fled from me last night, and went directly to your arms, of course.
He departs at once with a cargo of tobacco, which he exchanges for sweet potatoes, and everybody is happy ever after. The girls were convulsed with mirth at this historical romance, and, as Mrs. Winship wiped the tears of merriment from her eyes, Polly seized the golden opportunity and dropped on her knees beside her. 'Please, Aunt Truth, we can't get the white mosquito-netting because Dr.
The bulky form was quivering and convulsed. The colonel had been dazed, it seemed, but not rendered entirely unconscious, for now with a groan he struggled to a sitting posture. Bart drew out his handkerchief and tried to clean the dirt from the military man's face. The colonel resisted, he swayed and mumbled. Then he groaned again as his eyes lit on the freight car.
"Now, let's see to your wound," he said, with his lips to the boy's ear; and he passed one hand under Punch's wounded shoulder to try and turn him over. This time, as Punch's lips parted and his face grew convulsed with pain, Pen's ears mastered the roar, and he heard the sufferer's cry. "Hurt you too much?" he said, as he once more put his lips to the boy's ear. The answer was a nod.
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