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The door at the rear opened suddenly, and a girl stood upon the threshold. She was tall and slender, and her face showed traces of positive beauty, although it was bloated and distorted with weeping and dissipation, and her big black eyes glittered feverishly. "What's that you're sayin' about Charley?" she demanded half-hysterically. "He's gone! He's left me!
Then Joe went sick ... weak ... trembling, and he disgraced himself by half-hysterically grabbing Sally and demanding to know if she was hurt, and raging at her for exposing herself to fire, while his throat tried to close and shut off his breath from horror. There came loud pop-pop-popping noises.
"Go away and leave me alone!" "I won't!" she cried back to him half-hysterically. "I won't! If if you're going to do that, you'll take me with you!" He turned round then and moved back to the path. "Who said I was going to do anything?" he demanded in a voice that sounded half-angry and half-ashamed. She answered him with absolute candour. "I saw your face just now. I couldn't help knowing.
"It means," said Sarah, half-hysterically, "oh, can't you see what it means? It just means that Peter is going to South Africa, whether you like it or not." "There must be some mistake, of course," said Mrs. Hewel, in distressed tones. "And yet George's letter was so very clear." Dr. Blundell touched the canon's arm. "Shall I must I " whispered the canon, nervously.
Macdonald returned with the liquor, and a small portion of it, forced between Flora's teeth, quickly brought her round. She insisted on rising, and clung to me for support. "Has he escaped?" she asked eagerly. "No, there he is!" she pointed to Captain Rudstone. "Liar, thief, impostor!" she said, half-hysterically. "You are unmasked at last and by a woman! Denzil, the papers!" "See, I have them!"
Her lover tells her the story of his own life, how he had been brought to his present ideals a story of exceeding great pathos, which utterly overcomes the sensitive, shrinking girl by his side but it was the end. Half-hysterically she falls into his arms, and Helbeck almost believes the great renunciation is to follow. "His heart beat with a happiness he had never known before."
Do you girls mind if I sit up and read a little? That always makes me drowsy, and I've got a book that needs finishing." Only Aunt Kate was slumbering. "Got any chocolates that need eating?" asked Mollie, with a laugh, in which they all joined, half-hysterically. "Yes, I have!" with emphasis. "But, just for that you won't get any." "I don't want them!
And it was only just in time, for when Betty, who insisted on being the last to leave the boat, landed, the cake split in half, and the Spider was partly submerged. "What luck!" cried Will, as he clasped his sister's hand. "Whatever possessed you girls to go out on a day like this?" "Never mind asking questions now," replied Grace half-hysterically. "We're safe! Better get your boat ashore boys."
Harrison's embraces filled her now with a perfect spasm of shame and loathing. "I sold myself to him for money!" she panted. "Oh, God, for money!" But then suddenly she raised herself up and stared about her, crying out, half-hysterically, "No, no, it is not true! It is not true! I could never have done it I should have gone mad!" And a moment later Helen had staggered to her feet.
At the sight of it Grace, who with Amy was leaning breathlessly over the side of the boat, uttered a cry. "It's Will!" she screamed, half-hysterically. "It's my brother Will!" Betty and Mollie started back, and nearly let the limp body slip off the raft. "What what!" cried Betty, for the figure of the youth bore no resemblance to Will; nor did the features.
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