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Jack felt that the time for action had arrived. He dropped his papers temporarily on the sidewalk, and, lowering his head, butted against his young enemy with such force as to double him up, and seat him, gasping for breath, on the sidewalk. Tom Rafferty, for this was his name, looked up in astonishment at the unexpected form of the attack. "Well done, my lad!" said a hearty voice.
The rivers were patched and barred with sun-dried pebbles; the logs and loggers were drought-bound somewhere up the Connecticut; and the grass at the side of the track was burned in a hundred places by the sparks from locomotives. Men hatless, coatless, and gasping lay in the shade of that station where only a few months ago the glass stood at 30 below zero.
When she had ended there was silence for a time, broken only by one quick gasping sob from Gaston. The girl sat still as death, her eyes on him intently. "Poor Andree! Poor girl!" he said at last. She sighed pitifully. "What shall we do?" she asked. He scarcely spoke above a whisper: "There must be time to think. I will go to London." "You will come back?" "Yes in five days, if I live."
The slope grew steep and steeper; but on and on he held in the darkness, gasping painfully, yet running still, until the face of the Fall blocked his way too. There he paused a moment, and whistled a low call. Could he but dispatch the old dog up the one path to the Scoop, while he took the other, the murderer's one road to safety would be blocked.
This horrible announcement, uttered with a fierce earnestness that proved the sincerity of the speaker, froze Roland's blood in his veins, and he stood speechless and gasping; until Nathan, noting his agitation, and recovering in part from his own ferment of spirits, exclaimed, even more hastily than before "Truly, I have told thee what is false thee kinswoman is safe, a prisoner, but alive and safe."
Some weeks afterward some friends dropped in to take a cup of tea and talk over the last piece of gossip. Among other things the wine was mentioned, and the maid sent to get some from the cellar. She soon returned, and gasping for breath, rushed into the room, exclaiming, "'Tis all gone, ma'am;" and sure enough it was all gone.
In being hearing something she was being one who had been gasping. In being hearing something she was one who would be completing telling. In being hearing something she was one expecting to not be hearing everything. In being hearing something she was one having been one not hearing any such thing.
"Is it not a strange thing, Mrs. Bunting, that people who have all day in which to amuse themselves should carry their revels far into the night?" "Oh, I wasn't thinking of revellers, sir; I was thinking" she hesitated, then, with a gasping effort Mrs. Bunting brought out the words, "of the police." "The police?"
Then Miss Nugent, sobbing piteously, rose from the puddle into which she had fallen and surveyed her garments. Mr. Wilks surveyed them, too, and a very cursory glance was sufficient to show him that the case was beyond his powers. He took the outraged damsel by the hand, and led her, howling lustily, in to the horrified Ann. "My word," said she, gasping. "Look at your gloves! Look at your frock!"
Inside was a note: I am very sorry you are sick. This is to put your gloves in when you travel. Please excuse the work. I have done it in a hurry. Suddenly the Countess laughed, choking hysterical laughter that alarmed Minna; horrible laughter, which left her paler than ever, and gasping. The old castle of the Loscheks looked grim and inhospitable when she reached it that, night.
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