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I saw him expire with an anguish, unaccountable even to myself, the spasm was as the wrenching of some limb in agonizing torture, but it was brief as it was intolerable. I forgot him, as I swiftly darted through the open portal, and up the majestic stairs of this castle of victories heard Adrian's voice O fool!
"That's right," agreed Henry. He knocked, and, after waiting a moment, tried the latch. The door swung open, showing the place to be deserted. "Betty Amy!" called Allen. There was no answer. Then with a quick motion Henry darted forward and picked up something from the floor. It was a handkerchief. "It's my sister's," he said. "They they've been here!" He and Allen looked at each other strangely.
With a bound a spring that sent Mr. Plimmins sprawling in the kennel, he darted across the road, and fled down an opposite lane. "Stop him! stop!" cried the bookseller, and the officer rushed after him with almost equal speed.
With half a dozen men ready to do his work, Aldous knew that Quade would not redden his own hands or place himself in any conspicuous risk. During the next hour he visited the places where Quade was most frequently seen. He had made up his mind to walk over to the engineers' camp, when a small figure darted after him out of the gloom of the trees. It was Stevens' boy.
At length it darted into the pavilion, where the lady and her companions were seated, fluttered around her head, and at length rested upon her shoulder, giving at the same time a cry of exultation, stretching its neck, and flapping its wings.
Scarcely, however, had Bessie reached the hall on her way to answer the ring, when her aunt, who, it seemed to her, was everywhere present, darted out from some quarter, and seizing her by the shoulder said, quickly: "Go back to your room. I'll let her in myself." Was she angry, and if so, at what?
Whereupon she begged very urgently that we would delay and not get to the mills till she had been there; and darted away as you saw. 'Impressive power of peaches! said Hazel, with a laugh. 'Commend my penetration. I wish all our waste baskets of fruit could be emptied out in that Hollow, and so be of some use. It would be fun to send Mr. Morton's own grapes' but there she stopped.
A brave spirit had been brutally blotted out by an outlaw who relied confidently on the usual exoneration. With an exclamation Keith darted into the engine house to where hung the rope ready for an alarm. An instant later the heavy booming of the Monumental's bell smote the air. Having given this alarm.
A pair of stallions ran away within twenty paces of a precipice; the doctor, appearing from behind a thicket, darted to the heads of the horses and hung on to them by their nostrils, which he held in an iron grip. You have the whole scene from these windows.
One day, in the heart of a natural clearing, she saw a tree. Its blossoms and leaves were as scarlet as the seeds of a pomegranate. "Oh, how beautiful! What is it, Rao?" "The flame of the jungle, Mem-sahib. It is good luck to see it on a journey." About the tree darted gay parrakeets and fat green parrots.
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