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He could scarcely realize it was he actually he! who, after another pause, followed the officer, with scant interest, hardly any at all, to some inferno where flames leaped and hissed. He could not but be aware of them, although the voice telling him that he would remain here, make himself useful, and, incidentally, work his way among the stokers, sounded very far off.

Groa had just taken the skin down off the nail on the wall. Now she brandished it and looked at Arni with fury in her gaze. But he did not wait. He rushed at her, gave her such a shove that she fell, and, snatching the skin from her, ran. A safe distance away, he turned and stood panting for several seconds. At last, exhausted and trembling with rage, he hissed: I tell you, Groa.

To complete their stupefaction I stepped out of my cubicle. "What sort of a game is this?" Rodwell muttered, though he was pale to the lips. "Blanche " He turned toward her with sudden fierceness. She sat there, wringing her hands. "Mr. Bundercombe!" she exclaimed feebly. "Mr. Bundercombe!" "So this is your silly old fool, is it?" Rodwell hissed.

"If he ever comes, I will murder him!" hissed Strozzi. "You will try, but you will not succeed. God protects him, and he wears the invisible armor of my love to shield him from your hate." "Very well. Pray for him if you will; but, as sure as I live, I will find his vulnerable heel!" As he said this, Laura turned pale, and Strozzi remarked her pallor with a malicious pleasure.

The stealthy, whispering individual, who spoke with a hiss and scrutinized Richard as he took his card with a jealous intensity which might have distinguished a hawk in a state of half alarm and whole suspicion, presently returned. His air was altered to one of confidence. "You are to come in, please!" he hissed like a respectful snake.

It was indeed high time, for all efforts to extinguish the flames had proved vain; every part of the castle was on fire; the fiery element streamed from the lower windows, and curled upwards around the towers; it crackled and hissed in its fury, and the atmosphere became unfit to breathe; it was like inhaling flame. Sparks flew about in all directions, dense stifling smoke filled every room.

"But Harry and I will prove to these real men every word that we've been saying." "You have robbed me!" hissed Don Luis, now believing. His hand flew to a rear pocket. He drew a pistol. But two soldiers had crept up behind Montez at a sign from Senor Honda. Now, one of the barefooted soldados struck the weapon down. It clattered on the porch, and the other soldier picked it up.

The municipal authority throws the bowing alguacil a key, which he catches in his hat, or is hissed if he misses it. With this he unlocks the door through which the bull is to enter, and then scampers off with undignified haste through the opposite entrance.

"He is a very good doctor. And I will leave you some money for medicine." Madame Tchalikov was hastening to wipe the table. "It's messy here! What are you doing?" hissed Tchalikov, looking at her wrathfully. "Take her to the lodger's room! I make bold to ask you, madam, to step into the lodger's room," he said, addressing Anna Akimovna. "It's clean there."

They faced each other in a silence perilously akin to hate. "Are you a Christian?" hissed Adam Craig between his teeth. "Or are you a heartless pagan?" "I'm a pagan," said Kenny. "Orthodoxy, Adam," he added bitterly with thoughts of Joan, "I leave for such compassionate hearts as yours." "I don't want it!" said Adam instantly. "It's churchiology, not Christianity.