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I was on my feet, and, in spite of the bloodhounds, making for the spot and among the crew. The old woman cowered in the corner, the two brothers held the girl, the old man towered over her, his great eyes blazing in his ashen face. I can't tell you what they were doing. Sometimes I have thought old Raynier was burning her with a hot iron he held " "Oh, horrible! horrible!"
There was nothing romantic about this. Must proposals be either grotesque or horrible? Could she ever forget Gilbert's face? "Is there anybody else?" he asked at last in a low voice. "No no," said Anne eagerly. "I don't care for any one like THAT and I LIKE you better than anybody else in the world, Gilbert. And we must we must go on being friends, Gilbert." Gilbert gave a bitter little laugh.
And instead there was a horrible aching void. For the whole afternoon and evening, and for the following forenoon, poor Lilla's loneliness grew to be a positive agony. For the first time she began to realise the sense of her loss, as though all the previous suffering had been merely a preparation. Everything she looked at, everything she remembered or thought of, became laden with poignant memory.
"A whole lifetime of humility and submission " "A whole lifetime of humil No, I can not!" she exclaimed, springing to her feet with the agility of a deer; and, wresting herself from Risler's grasp, through that open door which had tempted her from the beginning of this horrible scene, luring her out into the darkness of the night to the liberty obtainable by flight, she rushed from the house, braving the falling snow and the wind that stung her bare shoulders.
What's the matter? Has your old enemy the headache " He put his arm about her tenderly. "No, no! I'm sick of this place I wish I'd never seen it! How could those dreadful men fight about me? It's horrible!" The Major whistled. "Oh, ho! that's got around to you, has it? I didn't know it myself until yesterday; I was hoping it wouldn't reach you at all. I wouldn't mind it, my dear.
I felt assured that no imaginary danger and no emergency save the last would have induced her to stoop so low; and this consideration, taken with the fear I felt that she had fallen into the hands of Fresnoy, whom I believed to be the person who had robbed me of the gold coin, filled me with a horrible doubt which way my duty lay. I was pulled, as it were, both ways.
It actually floated nearly fifteen, as a matter of fact, and I had some horrible moments!" "Smith!" I said, "how could you submit me ...?" He clapped his hands on my shoulders. "My dear old chap there was no other way, believe me. From that boat I could see right into his stateroom, but, once in, I dare not leave it except late at night, stealthily!
"Just there it do, sir, but that's only the doorway; it may be ever so high inside. P'raps I'm wrong, though. You've tried it, then?" "What, tried to get under that horrible dark arch? Oh, no!" "Why not?" said the man coolly. "I don't see nothing horrid. Dessay it'll be dark, but we've a lanthorn." "But we should have to wade, and in the darkness we might go down some horrible hole."
And yet I am bound to say that they fall short of indicating the horrible cruelties constantly practiced in the slave states. I admit that there are individual slaveholders less cruel and barbarous than is allowed by law; but these form the exception.
The moonlight glistened on their steely scales, and on their golden wings, which drooped idly over the sand. Their brazen claws, horrible to look at, were thrust out, and clutched the wave-beaten fragments of rock, while the sleeping Gorgons dreamed of tearing some poor mortal all to pieces.
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