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His business was to stir up the people in Madras with a long pole as you stir up stench in a pond and the people had to come up out of their comfortable old ways and gasp: "This is Enlightenment and progress. Isn't it fine!" Then they gave Mellishe statues and jasmine garlands, in the hope of getting rid of him. Mellishe came up to Simla "to confer with the Viceroy."
"I told him all," she said with a gasp; then gave a wild little cry, and, with subdued exultation, added, "and he loves me yet! He has taken the girl without a name to his heart!" "No wonder," said Malcolm, "when she brought it with her." "Yes," said Lenorme, "I but took the diamond casket that held my bliss, and now I could dare the angel Gabriel to match happinesses with me."
"Lieutenant!" he stammered, "that man the nigger that officer shot he's dead!" Aintree gave a gasp that was partly a groan, partly a cry of protest, and Bullard, as though for the first time aware of his presence, sprang back to the open door and placed himself between it and Aintree. "It's murder!" he said.
After that devil, and a thousand pounds to the man that gets him!" he managed to gasp as they rushed to him and ripped loose the gag. "He was here when we came! He has been in the house for hours. Get him! get him! get him!"
All things were still. I kindled a fire near a fountain of sweet water, and feasted on the loin of a buck, which a few hours before I had killed. The sullen shades of night soon overspread the whole hemisphere, and the earth seemed to gasp after the hovering moisture. My roving excursion this day had fatigued my body, and diverted my imagination.
Then they changed clothes altogether, which made Morano gasp: and after that nothing remained but to cut off the delicate black moustachios of Rodriguez and to stick them to the face of Morano with the juice of another flower that he knew where to find. Rodriguez sighed when he saw them go.
" broke in Alf, with a rippling laugh; "it's a very good dress-material; silk one way, and wool the other; and it's mostly black, or maroon, or" he stopped with a gasp. "Why don't you sit down?" he continued, in an altered tone. "And that reminds me, my day's work's not done yet." He cleared the table, and placed upon it his half-dissected turkey, in a milk-dish.
'Faith now has but little time to speak to the conscience it is now struggling for life it is now fighting with angels with infernals all it can do now is to cry, groan, sweat, fear, fight, and gasp for life. How desperate the conflict the mouth of hell yawning to swallow him man cannot aid the poor warrior, all his help is in God.
He sank back upon his seat with a gasp, clutching at his hat with both hands. He also disbelieved. "Wash!" he exclaimed weakly. "Lord, no! Lord, no! Not Wash! Wash, he's in North Cal-lina. Lord, no!" "He is up-stairs," returned Clélie, "and Mademoiselle is with him."
"Out of the way," said Horrocks, with a gasp, as the train came rattling by, and they stood panting by the gate into the ironworks. "I did not see it coming," said Raut, still, even in spite of his own apprehensions, trying to keep up an appearance of ordinary intercourse. Horrocks answered with a grunt. "The cone," he said, and then, as one who recovers himself, "I thought you did not hear."
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