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"No," Terry began, "he could have seen nothing; he must have " He broke off suddenly and gripping my arm whispered out, "What's that?" "Where?" I asked. "Up there; straight ahead." I looked up and saw two round eyes which glittered like a wild beast's, staring at us out of the darkness. A cold chill ran up my back and I instinctively huddled closer to the others.
"Well, I'm glad it wasn't my real one," and Bunny put his hand up to his face, while Charlie stooped over to pick up the pieces of the lobster claw, hoping there was enough left to make a little nose for the next time. And then suddenly Bunny, who was watching Charlie, gave a cry, and reached for something that glittered among the pieces of the red lobster claw.
After giving me a bad dinner, do you demand an explanation? Ha! you shall have it." Having delivered himself to this effect, he added action to words. Walking grandly to the door, he threw it open, and saluted Mountjoy with an ironical bow. Iris observed that act of insolence; her colour rose, her eyes glittered. "Do you see what he has just done?" she said to Mrs. Vimpany.
The other's face darkened, and his eyes glittered as he peered in through the bars. "What's your breed?" he asked sneeringly. "I don't have to tell you that, Carlisle. You know!" said Rathburn with a taunting laugh. Carlisle struggled with his anger for a brief spell. Then he shrugged his shoulders.
Now, my girl, you either climb those rocks with me, or I shall kill you where you are. It is that, or the Sioux torture. I have two shots left in this gun, one for you, the other for myself. The time has come for deciding which of these alternatives you prefer." The gleam of a star glittered along the steel of his revolver, and she realized that he meant what he threatened.
Graeme found his candle, and lit it and looked at his prisoner. Johnnie was covered with mould from the potato patch, but his black eyes gleamed through it as brightly as ever, and, as far as Graeme could distinguish through its masking, his face showed no sign of confusion. "Do you know what we do with naughty little ghosts in England, Johnnie?" Johnnie's eyes glittered like a snake's.
But it appeared to be still far off, and all the country between, partly vailed in silvery mists, glittered with lakes and streams of water. As he pressed on, Bokwewa came in sight of innumerable herds of stately deer, moose, and other animals which walked near his path, and they appeared to have no fear of man.
But all at once the woman's face became transformed; her plaintive wail was changed to a hard, shrill scream; she turned pale, her lips trembled, she clenched her hands, a few locks of her disordered hair fell over her forehead, her eyes glittered, dried by the heat of the anger that glowed in her breast; she rose from her seat and, not like a woman, but like a harpy, cried: "I am going away from here!
Such immense wealth would enable him to redeem the property mortgaged to the priests, and put an end at once and forever to their meddling." The prince's eyes glittered, and Hiram continued, "Today the army depends on Herhor, and therefore on the priests; remove the foreign regiments, and the pharaoh, in case of war, could not depend on his warriors.
Multitudes were very busy in the pursuit of bubbles, that glittered in their eyes and danced before them; but often, when they thought themselves within the reach of them, their footing failed, and down they sunk.
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