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And what is this prize that the trembling Venetia holds almost convulsively in her grasp, apparently without daring even to examine it? Is this the serene and light-hearted girl, whose face was like the cloudless splendour of a sunny day? Why is she so pallid and perturbed? What strong impulse fills her frame? She clutches in her hand a key!
The messenger appeared a rough country lad, of about eighteen or twenty. "You brought this note?" "I did, your honour." "From whom?" "Why, a sort of a strange lady as is lying at the 'Chequers, and not expected to live. She be mortal bad, sir, and do run on awesome." Godolphin pressed his hands convulsively together. "And how long has she been there?"
What have you to say, Luc Michee?" The woman in the gallery was weeping silently behind her thick veil, and her worn hand clutched the desk in front of her convulsively. Presently she arose and made her way down the stair, almost unnoticed. Two or three times Luc tried to speak, but could not. "Lift me up," he said brokenly, at last.
"Dear Grandpapa, and when the masters give a Christmas tree, take a golden walnut and hide it in my green box. Ask the young lady, Olga Ignatyevna, for it, say it's for Vanka." Vanka sighed convulsively, and again stared at the window. He remembered that his grandfather always went to the forest for the Christmas tree, and took his grandson with him. What happy times!
Ashby's fate she had regarded with mild pity, but the fate of Rivers seemed to crush her down into the dust. She clutched the arm of Lopez convulsively with both her hands; she raised up her face white with horror; she gasped for breath. "Oh, señor! oh, señor!" she cried, "what is it that you mean? A spy! Harry a spy, and arrested! Oh, you cannot mean it! Say that you do not mean it!
At this very moment her countenance betrayed inexpressible sorrow. Her look was fixed, her head resting on her bosom. She had let her right hand, which held a small account-book, fall upon her lap, while the other hand grasped convulsively a long tress of jet-black hair, which she bore about her neck.
The sack rose and fell as if something under it was squirming about convulsively. But to Blake's surprise it did not fall aside and disclose that which was making the violent movement. The squirming lessened. He grasped an outer corner of the sack and jerked it upward. It failed to flip into the air. The lower part sagged heavily. The squirmer was inside and the mouth of the sack was tied fast.
De Peyster slipped her other arm about Mary, and daringly she kissed Mary's fresh young cheek, and she drew the two tightly, almost convulsively, to her. "Mother!" cried Jack; and the next instant the two pairs of arms were about her. And thus they stood for several moments; until
"That's all very fine now, dear, when you're what shall I say? a little bit exaltée; but how do you think you'll feel when they've when they've" he continued to speak with his eyes shut convulsively "when they've arrested me and tried me and sentenced me and locked me up for ten or fifteen years?" "I shall feel as if the bitterness of death were past.
But you'll have to 'come through, clean, if I'm to help you. Now, if you've got anything to say " He paused, invitingly. Milo gaped at him, the big bearded face working convulsively. Nerves wrenched, easily dominated by a stronger nature, the giant was struggling in vain to resume his pose of not understanding Brice's allusions.
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