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In his heart," she added, dropping her voice, "he must know that I am going to die." Her eyes seemed to have stiffened in their sockets, to have become dilated. Her lips trembled, but her eyes remained steadfast. "Oh! madame," she sobbed, "is it not cruel that one should die like this! I am so young. I have seen so little of life. It is not just, madame it is not just!"
The gang leader began to sweat blood. Had some one bungled after all the care with which he had laid his plans? A door slammed below. Hurried footsteps sounded on the stair treads. Into the room burst a man. "'Slim' 's been croaked," he blurted. "What!" Durand's eyes dilated. "At Maddock's." "Who did it?" "De guy he was to gun." "Lindsay." "Dat's de fellow." "Did the bulls get Lindsay?"
He passed the cigar under his nose, drew in his breath, and smiled at it with a kind of partially chastened affection. "Do you think could we not have dinner put on a little earlier, eh?" A cry from the open door startled them. The sympathetic widow, her black eyes dilated, was gazing at the patient.
The reptile was nearly two feet long, and of a grayish color, and gaped with formidable jaws, more than usually dilated by the blows, I suppose, which l'Encuerado had given it. Sumichrast, with infinite precaution, showed to his pupil the tubular fangs, by means of which serpents inoculate the terrible venom with which some of them have been endowed by nature.
'Yes, said he, rubbing his hands, 'excellent! making due allowances for the emphatically commoner's mind we have to deal with. And then to change the subject he dilated on that strange story of the man who, an enormous number of years back in the date of the world's history, carried his little son on his shoulders one night when the winds were not so boisterous, though we were deeper in Winter, along the identical road we traversed, between the gorsemounds, across the heaths, with yonder remembered fir-tree clump in sight and the waste-water visible to footfarers rounding under the firs.
When old goody Liu heard the mention made by lady Feng of their hardships, she imagined that there was no hope; but upon hearing her again speak of giving her twenty taels, she was exceedingly delighted, so much so that her eyebrows dilated and her eyes gleamed with smiles.
Her eyes grew dilated and wild, her face was pale and drawn; her hand trembled as she held it out. "Ye see, Ben, he's close enough ter view it all an' mebbe he does an' he knows now who he hev got ter thank fur it all an' I wisht he war hyar, whar I am, an' I war thar, whar he is." Her brother thought for the moment that she was raving.
Still later similar horrid scenes were reported from Dahomey. Sir Richard Burton, who was an old acquaintance of mine, spent two months with the King of Dahomey, and dilated to me on the benevolence and enlightenment of that excellent monarch. I asked why, if the King was so benevolent, he did not alter the customs. Burton looked at me with consternation. 'Alter the customs! he said.
At that sight, his eyes became dilated, but without any appearance of consciousness in them.
Upon this occasion, his lordship courageously drew his sword upon my woman, who attempted to defend me from his insults, and, in all probability, would have intimidated him from proceeding; for he looked pale and aghast, his knees knocked together, and he breathed thick and hard, with his nostrils dilated, as if he had seen a ghost; but he was encouraged by his mercenary associate, who, for the five-and-twenty pounds, stood by him in the day of trouble, and spirited him on to this gallant enterprise.
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