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This time she laughed softly, and Mike thought dizzily of the gay chiming of silver bells. He clamped down firmly on the romantic wanderings of his mind as she started her explanation. "I'm a specialist in child psychology, Mike. Actually, I was hired as an experiment or, rather, as the result of a wild guess that happened to work.
All this was so sudden all flashed so rapidly upon the Earl, whose natural intellect, however great, was, as we have often seen, more deliberate than prompt so thoroughly was the bold heart, which no siege could have sapped, taken by surprise and guile so paramount through all the whirl and tumult of his mind, rose the thought of England irrevocably lost, if he who alone could save her was in the Norman dungeons so darkly did all Haco's fears, and his own just suspicions, quell and master him, that mechanically, dizzily, dreamily, he laid his hand on the reliquaire, and repeated, with automaton lips: "If I live, and if God aid me to it!"
"Now, see if you can stand on your feet," urged Midshipman Tyson. By this time Farley's wits had returned sufficiently for him to have a very fair idea of what had passed. There he stood, dizzily, until his late seconds gave him stronger support. "You can't go back to Bancroft while you are in this condition, mister," hinted Tyson decidedly.
Gregory turned from the mercy that could no longer save him. He rose dizzily, and tried to get himself away. "You mustn't go!" she interposed. "I don't believe you made him do it. Mr. Hinkle will be back soon, and he will " "If he should bring word that it was true?" Gregory asked. "Well," said Clementina, "then we should have to bear it."
Raffin by the collar of his coat, and swung him round and round and over his head. Mr. Raffin streamed almost straight out, like the imitation airplanes that whirl dizzily about the tower in an amusement park. Suddenly there was a rending of cloth, and Dominique shot through the air to encounter the wall with a soul-satisfying thump.
Temple looming ever vaster before them, its mass of rock, of wind-blown, wind-carved peaks lifted in sombre defiance against the stars. It brooded darkly over the lower slopes, like an incubus it dominated the other spines and ridges, its gorges filled with shadow and mystery, its precipices making the sense reel dizzily.
Young Joe Bemis, of The Star, was the first to leave, whirling madly and precariously down the street on his wheel, which was dizzily tall in those days. Mrs. Zelotes, hailing him from her open window, might as well have hailed the wind.
If there were dark things or troubled things to deal with, they were kept well below the shining surface; on the surface one always glided. It was charming, indeed, and yet Althea looked a little dizzily from side to side, as if at familiar but unattainable shores, and wondered if some solid foothold on solid earth were not preferable.
If there were living charioteer skilful enough to guide the wheels of state, whirling now more dizzily than ever through "confusum chaos," Alexander Farnese was the charioteer to guide his hand the only one which could control. He was now in his thirty-third year his uncle Don John, his cousin Don Carlos, and himself, having all been born within a few months of each other.
Unless our whole system of identification is wrong and that is incredible that man who lies dead there is not Robert Grell." Lomont reeled dizzily, and his hand sought the support of the wall. To him Foyle's voice sounded unreal. He stared at the detective as though doubtful of his sanity. His life had been hitherto ordered, placid.
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