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This adventure was serious; a bullet might drop him; the law might remove him: so he would leave here at once. He was about to open the window, when he heard a door shut below, and the thud of heavy steps outside the house. Drawing back, he waited until he heard the foot of Elise upon the stair. She came in without a light, and at first did not see him. He heard her gasp.
She was positively the oddest little piece of humanity Nan had ever met. Once Nan asked her if she had a doll. "Doll?" snarled Margaret with surprising energy. "A'nt Matildy give me one once't an' I throwed it as far as I could inter the river, so I did! Nasty thing! Its face was all painted and rough." Nan could only gasp. Drown a doll-baby!
He had come over with the first dawn, to bring the ladies food; had slipped upstairs to ask what news, found the door open, and entered in time to see the last gasp. Lucia kept her head still buried: and Tom, for the first time for many a year, knelt, as the old banker commended to God the soul of our dear brother just departing this life.
The traveller hears and shudders; he flings off his gay vestment. The waves gather up the silken folds. But the sacrifice is useless. A fell hand strikes down both traveller and sailor. As they gasp and die they are hurried to the ship's side; they are plunged overboard; a seething, foaming grave yawns to receive them. The ship glides on. Those who remain wash the deck with water.
His will is in the hands of his executor in London, and he leaves his wife and child well provided for. My next question succeeded better; it hit the mark: 'Have you something on your mind to do before you die which is not done yet? He gave a great gasp of relief, which said, as no words could have said it, Yes. 'Can I help you? 'Yes.
Hardly had the door closed behind the autocrat of the sick-room, when his patient turned softly. "You're crying," he accused. "I'm not!" The denial was the merest gasp. The long lashes quivered with tears. "Yes, you are. He was mean to you." "He's never mean to me." The words came in a sobbing rush. "But he he stopped loving me just for that minute.
Judy gave a little caught breath; it tickled her throat and she began to cough. Such terrible coughing, a paroxysm that shook her thin frame and made her gasp for breath. It lasted two or three minutes, though she put her handkerchief to her mouth to try to stop it. She was very pale when it ceased, and he noticed the hollows in her cheeks for the first time.
Himes gave a little gasp and sat down. "Now, I hadn't no thoughts of tradin' for a wife," continued Thomas, "especially in woollen goods and books; but when I considered and turned the matter over in my mind, and thought what a woman you was, and what a life there was afore me if I got you, I agreed to do it.
Now that they had been, they hurt. "Back to England?" The words came out breathlessly, and with a sort of gasp. "No, not there. I am going up country, into the interior." "Oh!" There was relief in the ejaculation. For the moment she lost sight of all that was involved by such a destination. They would still be in the same land. That was something or seemed so.
At the reassuring nod of Mary toward the front room, Elaine was overcome. "I I killed him!" she managed to gasp. "What?" cried Mary, starting up and trembling violently. "You killed him?" "Yes," sobbed Elaine, "he came at me I had the knife I struck at him " The two girls ran into the other room. There Mary looked at the motionless body on the floor and recoiled, horrified.
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