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At length the thought crossed my mind with horror: "Can it be possible that the Ash is looking for me? or that, in his nightly wanderings, his path is gradually verging towards mine?"
The day after our arrival I happened to hand some tobacco to Toby over the head of a native who sat between us. He started up as if stung by an adder; while the whole company, manifesting an equal degree of horror, simultaneously screamed out "Taboo!"
Two nurses, not very well trained as nurses go nor very well-educated women, were snatching a little sea air upon the front after an eventful night. They were too excited still to sleep. They were talking of the horror of the moment when they saw the nasty thing "up there," and felt helpless as it dropped its bombs. They had both hated it. "There didn't ought to be such things," said one.
Three times already had been heard the heavy thud of the instrument which broke the victim's limbs, and a loud cry escaped the sufferer which made all who heard it shudder with horror, One man only, who, in spite of all his efforts, could not get through the crowd and cross the square, remained unmoved, and looking contemptuously towards the criminal, muttered, "Idiot! he was unable to deceive anyone!"
"Is she did you where is her home?" she stammered. A great light broke in on Dr. Eben's mind. "Good God!" he cried. "Hetty, it is not possible that you thought I loved Rachel?" "No," said Hetty. "I only thought you could love her, if it were right; and if I were dead it would be." A look of horror deepened on the doctor's face. The idea thus suggested to his mind was terrible.
She's a bit of a sentimentalist, and an exquisite flirt, but the most genuine little creature, too. If she wouldn't flirt, she'd be too good for this world. 'Flirt! cried Paul, in so much horror that Ralston laughed aloud. 'I have taken advantage of my demi-semi-clerical dignity, he said, 'to preach many sermons to her on that particular.
I hesitated a few moments, and then with the reality of the horror impressed more and more by the shouting, yelling, and rapid firing going on, I told him about Morgan and the other men, even to finding the opened keg and loose powder. "Great heavens!" he muttered as I finished; and I looked at him to hear what more he would say, but he remained silent. "Shall I send Morgan to you, father?"
A white bearskin and walrus tusk told of an early venture into the frozen North, when bold men were first drawn to its darkness and mystery; while the Buddha from an Eastern temple, squatting shut-eyed on a shelf, roused good old Brother Bart into holy horror. "I never thought to be under the same roof with a haythen idol.
The voice expressed astonishment and indignation and a sort of gruff horror, but the man who listened could hear only the tones, not the words that were spoken. The Irishman came quickly into the room. He glanced once toward the bed where Ste.
As he recovered his balance from the effort that had thrown Wash, Young Matt heard her cry, saw the girl's look of horror, and her outstretched hand pointing. Like a flash he whirled just as the knife was lifted high for the murderous blow. It was over in an instant.
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