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Suddenly the answer occurred to him. "It's Withers!" he thought, at first only half-credulous. "He's going to put it on Withers; he's going to try to put it on Withers." He paused, thinking "wild" for a moment, so great was his surprise. "It was Withers he was after from the start, was it?"
Not until then did he stop to marvel at the strength which had returned to him. He stretched his arms above his head and breathed deeply of the cold air. It seemed as though something had loosened inside of him, that a crushing weight had lifted itself from his eyes. Kazan had followed him, and he stared down at the dog. "It's gone, Kazan," he cried, in a low, half-credulous voice.
The assistant looked at him with a grim, half-credulous, half-scornful smile. "Have it your own way," he said, "but I oughter tell ye, old man, that I'm the warehouse clerk, and I remember YOU. I'm here for that purpose. But as that thar valise is bought and paid for by somebody else and given to you, it's nothing more to me. Take it or leave it."
Bentley standing beside them until they heard his voice. "What she says is true," he told them. "Her place is in there. Let her go." Kate Marcy raised her head at the words, and looked at him a strange, half-comprehending, half-credulous gaze.
Bentley standing beside them until they heard his voice. "What she says is true," he told them. "Her place is in there. Let her go." Kate Marcy raised her head at the words, and looked at him a strange, half-comprehending, half-credulous gaze.
Bentley standing beside them until they heard his voice. "What she says is true," he told them. "Her place is in there. Let her go." Kate Marcy raised her head at the words, and looked at him a strange, half-comprehending, half-credulous gaze.
"A man of his reputed passions and ferocity may well have sought to revenge defeat by violence!" A second and a louder murmur denoted the effect this suggestion had produced. "Eccellenza, Jacopo deals in the stiletto!" observed the half-credulous but still doubting fisherman. "That is as may be necessary. A man of his art and character may have recourse to other means to gratify his malice.
As, for instance, at the great New Year Festival, called by us 'The Sailing-Forth of the Ship of the Sun, which takes place at the commencement of the Spring solstice, a fire is kindled on the summit of the highest tower, and a Ship of gold rises from the centre of the flames, carrying the body of a slain virgin eastwards, . . 'tis wondrously performed! ... and I, like others, have gaped upon the splendor of the scene half-credulous, and wholly dazzled!
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