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It was, however, less sure than usual; an oar missed its hold and skittered impotently over the water, drenching Woolfolk with a brief, cold spray. Again the bow of the tender dipped into the point of land they were rounding, and John Woolfolk spoke more abruptly than before. He was seriously alarmed about Millie.
Her mind gripped at it, clung to it finally, and she felt herself calling again endlessly, impotently Kieth Kieth! Then out of a great stillness came a voice: "BLESSED BE GOD." With a gradual rumble sounded the response rolling heavily through the chapel: "Blessed be God." "Blessed be His Holy Name." "Blessed be His Holy Name." Everything blurred into a swinging mist.
He lifted her in his strong arms and brought her back, with her bright hair fluttering against his lips, and Van Alen, raging impotently, stood and watched him. It seemed to him that Otto's air was almost insultingly triumphant as he set the girl on her feet and smiled down at her. And as she smiled back, Van Alen turned on his heel and left them.
She explained this haltingly to Pleydon, who listened with a flattering interest. "I expect you're laughing at me inside," she ended impotently. "And the other, the Greek Victory," he added, "is the goddess of the other world, of the spirit. It's quaint a heathen woman should be that." Linda discovered that she liked Pleydon enormously.
Bob, very red about the ears, took refuge in a sulky silence. He was being guyed, and not by an inch did he propose to compromise the Cullison dignity. "From the way you go at it, I figure you an old hand at the hold-up game. Wonder if you didn't pull off the W. & S. raid yourself." Bob writhed impotently. At this sort of thing he was no match for the other.
Old Parlay groaned, moved one arm impotently, and opened his eyes. In them was the light of recognition. "My brave gentlemen," he whispered haltingly. "Don't forget... the auction... at ten o'clock... in hell." His eyes dropped shut and the lower jaw threatened to drop, but he mastered the qualms of dissolution long enough to omit one final, loud, derisive cackle.
Those who had flourished under the old system retired to their holes, impotently cursing the new regime. Their triumph over Denis Quirk had proved a veritable disaster to Ebenezer Brown and his companions in evil. It was a warm night, and Father Healy was entertaining his friends in the garden of the Presbytery. They sat together on the green lawn that faces the town and the distant ocean.
He glared at the ranchman impotently, turned away with a mumbled oath, and went back with jingling spurs to his horse. Beaudry Blows a Smoke Wreath Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy who had recently played so large a part in his life.
Almost any day one or other of the two men could be seen with Sheba on the street. Those who wanted to take a sporting chance on the issue knew that odds were offered sub rosa at the Pay Streak saloon of three to one on Mac. As for Sheba, she rebelled impotently at the situation. The mine-owner would not take "No" for an answer.
She knew she would soon be there, and I knew it too. And after the first sharp pang, after the arrow of conviction fastened in my heart, I pressed it there with a kind of stern, vindictive joy, triumphing in my capacity of suffering. I wonder if any one ever felt as I did, I wonder if any worm of the dust ever writhed so impotently under the foot of Almighty God! O kind and compassionate Father!
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