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She put her hand on her side and her convulsive sobbing soon ceased. After a moment or two she said quietly: "You can trust me now, Mr. Van Berg; I won't fail you." "Do you think you could bring me a little water before you go?" he asked.
The empress felt that her hands were now powerless to restrain him, and she was so much the feebler, that Kaunitz openly espoused the side of the ambitious emperor. With convulsive weeping Maria Theresa saw her son assume his command, and when Joseph bade her farewell, she sank insensible from his arms to the floor. The Emperor Joseph was pacing the floor of his cabinet.
"Go! go!" stamping my foot, and the door closed without a sound. For a moment we stood, transfixed in an isolation which separated us from all the world beside. "Now Charles, we" a convulsive sob choked me, a strange taste filled my mouth, I put my handkerchief to my lips and wiped away streaks of blood. I showed it to him. "It is nothing, by God!" snatching the handkerchief.
He succeeded, but as he landed, and half fell amid his comrades, a gun barked, somewhere out in the ambush, and by the convulsive movement of his body Snake gave evidence of having been hit. "Are you hurt?" cried Bud, as he caught the reeling cowboy. "Guess not much!" grunted Snake, but his voice was labored. "Where was it?" snapped out one of the cowboys. "Let's have a look." "Here!"
If Peggy's convulsive movement had not been sufficient to account for the startled question, the expression of her face was abundant ground for the inquiry. "Why, Peggy," Priscilla repeated in real consternation, "what is it? What has happened?" "I never thought of it till this minute. She's spoiled everything." "Who? Claire? What has she spoiled?" "Our play," groaned Peggy.
Then suddenly, because he wasn't a man, because he couldn't do what he wanted to do, he began to cry, not as a boy cries, but more as a man cries, in shame and bitterness, his shoulders shaken by great convulsive sobs, his head buried in his hands, his fingers running through his tangled mop of hair. "Davy, Davy!" The sewing and the scissors slipped to the floor.
Dinah's hand was clasped in hers under the fur rug, and she felt the thin fingers close with a convulsive hold. Scott leaned forward. "Heaven is nearer to us than that, Isabel," he said gently. She looked at him for a moment, but her eyes at once passed beyond. "No, no, Stumpy! You never understand," she said restlessly. "I must reach the mountain-tops or die. I am tired I am tired of my prison.
O woman nurtured, effeminate and contemptible being I heard his voice, and answered it with convulsive shrieks; I rushed into the Hall of Hercules, where he stood surrounded by a crowd, whose eyes, turned in wonder on me, reminded me that on the stage of the world, a man must repress such girlish extacies.
I can't afford to give you boats.... Come, don't plague me any more with your toy," she said, pushing it away, and then in a moment of convulsive passion she threw the boat across the room. It struck the opposite wall, its mast was broken, and the sails and cords made a tangled little heap. Jackie ran to his toy, he picked it up, and his face showed his grief.
Gertrude had seen Margaret's sudden pallor and heard the convulsive catching of her breath, Margaret rising Undine-like out of a filmy, pale green frock, with her eyes set a little more deeply in the shadows than usual. Her quick instinct to the rescue was her own salvation. David was on his feet. "On behalf of my coadjutors," he said, "I thank you.
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