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The wound was very sore and could not be healed, but tormented him day and night with grievous pains, making him groan and cry aloud.
"I heard you groan out in the street," said Gypsy, rushing to the point at once; "I came up to see what was the matter." "Matter?" said the old woman sharply, "I fell down stairs and broke my ankle, that's the matter, an'clock I wonder the whole town hain't heerd me holler, I can't sleep day nor night with the pain, an'clock it's matter enough, I think." "I'm real sorry," said Gypsy. Mrs.
He then stepped forward to announce that his horses were in readiness for the invalid and his daughter. But they were no longer necessary. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort of indignant anger, and when he sunk again upon his chair, he expired almost without a struggle or groan.
With a groan, and fortifying himself with chocolates, the detective sat down to write a long and full account of his failure to keep what had been confided to his care, for the space of one hour. In a couple of days he had an answer. Ashiel did not seem much perturbed at the loss of the cipher. "It is a nuisance, of course," he said.
It seemed to Gilbert that its two burning eyeballs penetrated even through the door, though they saw nothing which surrounded them; their vision seemed turned within, and the invisible object which fastened their gaze, a heart haunted by specters. Suddenly the lips of this nocturnal wanderer opened, and another groan more fearful than the first issued from them.
Directly after, as the lad looked down he could see the mate tap once more upon a case in the curious-looking hollow. "Now, then," he shouted, "where are you?" There was a silence that was painful in its intensity, and then plainly heard came a faint groan. "Hooray, my lads! he's here, and alive yet," cried the mate, and the men set up a hearty cheer. "Steady, steady! He's close here.
She says" with a groan "she is going to settle me! To to brush my hair! To make my tea. She says I'm her guardian, and insists on living with me. She doesn't understand! Hardinge," desperately, "what am I to do?" "Marry her!" suggests Hardinge, who, I regret to say is choking with laughter. "That is a jest!" says the professor haughtily.
Yet he loved and trusted completely. His confidence in God's justice could not be shaken; but it was with almost a groan that he said, "O my God, my God, justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne; mercy and truth shall go before thy face! But justice with mercy, justice first!" The snow fell all that night, but the day broke exquisitely clear upon a white and shining world.
"What have you done with her? If you hurt her, damn you, you'll be sorry! Where where is she?" No answer. It was evident that English speech conveyed no meaning to his captors. Stern relapsed with a groan of anguish and sheer pain. The boat rocked. Another man came creeping forward, holding to the gunwale to steady himself.
Two hours passed, and all the camp lay lifeless, motionless under the oppression of the deep, weird darkness, that was instinct with some dreadful horror as yet without a name. Out of the sea of blackness came stifled sighs and moans; from an invisible tent was heard something that sounded like the groan of a dying man, the fitful dream of some tired soldier.
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