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I noted with a dissolving heart the strange look of awe on her face. From my first glance at my mother I discerned the light of death upon her countenance. I fell upon my knees beside the bed and, burying my face in the sheets, sobbed convulsively. She died with the fingers of her left hand entwined in my hair.
A few seconds later our anticipation was realized. From the direction of the stairs it came a low wailing in a woman's voice; and the sweetness of the tones added to the terror of the sound. I clutched at Smith's arm convulsively whilst that uncanny cry rose and fell rose and fell and died away. Neither of us moved immediately.
Durade's jaw worked convulsively, as if he had difficulty in holding it firm enough for utterance. What he would not sell for any price he would risk on a gambler's strange faith in chance. "All my winnings against this girl," went on Hough, relentlessly. Scorn and a taunting dare and an insidious persuasion mingled with the passion of his offer. He knew how to inflame.
Usually Keith submitted with what grace he could muster; but to-day he was in a persistent mood that would not be denied. "Dad, WHY won't you tell me about my brothers? Please, what were their names, and how old were they, and why did they die?" "God knows why they died I don't!" The man's arm about the boy's shoulder tightened convulsively. "But how old were they?"
The breast beneath the blue coat heaved convulsively. The match dropped from his fingers, and, as darkness fell again, it hid the soldier in the strong arms of the fugitive not a soldier bold, but a gasping, blushing, unresisting coward.
The sob came again, and this time it was echoed from the pew where sat the members of the dead man's family. Mrs. Lloyd began weeping convulsively. Her state of mind had raised her above natural emotion, and yet her nerves weakly yielded to it when given such an impetus.
I grasped the shaft and pulled and twisted it about until it finally was jerked forth. From the opening it had made there issued a black stream. Suddenly the body of the reptile quivered convulsively. The head rolled from side to side. There was a quick tightening of the tentacle round my body until my bones felt as though they were being crushed into shapelessness; and as suddenly it loosened.
She clutched convulsively at the arms of her chair. "He told me!" she said in a very low voice. Then, looking up pitifully: "Do you know?" she asked in her quaint way. "It was a mock marriage. He had done it and thought no shame, because it was so with my mother. Oh!"
His father waited in observant comprehension. Convulsively, Jack straightened with desperation and all the impassioned pleading to Mary on the pass was in his eyes. "But the thing that I cannot help the transcendent thing, not of logic, not of Little Rivers' difficulties how am I to give that up?" he cried. "Miss Ewold, you mean?" "Yes!" "Jack, I know! I understand!
"You see, M. l'Abbe," the bosom friend of Jacques Ferrand hastened to say, "he has continually these nervous spasms, and he will do nothing for them. He worries me, he is his own executioner, my poor friend!" At these words of Polidori, the notary shuddered still more convulsively, but he composed himself again.
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