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Suddenly she saw the tawny side of the panther directly before her seemingly it was at the end of the rifle barrel. The beast was crouching to leap. Ruth did not know where Reno then was; but she could hear him whimpering. The mastiff had been sorely hurt and the panther was about to finish him. And with this thought in her mind, Ruth steadied the rifle as best she could and pulled the trigger.
"But I do envy those clever chaps sometimes," Arthur remarked. "I don't suppose they ever . . ." He did not finish his sentence. "I can't see why you should envy them," said Susan, with great sincerity. "Odd things happen to one," said Arthur.
A Cabbage Butterfly far exceeds the capacity of the Empusa's stomach. The Ants will benefit by what is left. There is one other matter to be mentioned, before observing the metamorphosis. The position adopted by the young Empusae in the wire-gauze cage is invariably the same from start to finish.
Marco Polo says that in the province of Carazan "the rivers yield great quantities of washed gold, and also that which is solid, and on the mountains they find gold in the vein, and they give one pound of gold for six of silver." Workers in gold or silver usually employ one of two methods casting or beating, combined with delicacy of finish, chasing, and polishing.
One close thundery morning about a week later, Michael was sitting at his piano in his shirtsleeves, busy practising. He was aware that at the other end of the room the telephone was calling for him, but it seemed to be of far greater importance at the minute to finish the last page of one of the Bach fugues, than to attend to what anybody else might have to say to him.
Proud of his post, however, and satisfied with his lot, he applied himself faithfully to serve the government, believed he was useful to his country, and boasted of his indifference to politics, knowing none but those of the men in power. Monsieur Rabourdin pleased him highly whenever he asked him to stay half an hour longer to finish a piece of work.
That is why Nick Frim, a renowned out-hitter, good to finish a score brilliantly with a pair of threes, has taken to blocking, and Mr. Tom cuts with caution, though he loves to steal his runs, and is usually dismissed by his remarkable cunning.
It was distinctly not an aristocratic mouth. It suggested common speech and common tastes ruddy tastes tastes for quantity rather than for quality. His skin, his flesh were also plainly not aristocratic; they lacked that fineness of grain, that finish of surface which are got only by eating the costly, rare, best and best-prepared food.
"Could you get your Law Courts," he said, "to settle up the affairs of mankind for good and all by Wednesday?" "By Jove! Is it as bad as that? I thought, at any rate, he must be meaning to finish some day." "When men are brothers," said Hilary, "he will finish." Stephen whistled. "Look here, dear boy!" he said, "that ruffian comes out on Wednesday. The whole thing will begin over again."
A life which might have closed amid the reverence of a nation and the admiration of the world was destined to finish in exile, impotent and undignified.
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