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The broad shoulders and the lancelike carriage proclaimed Von Ritz even before the downcast face was raised. At Cara's door the European wheeled uncertainly and paused. Because something vague and subconscious in Benton's mind had catalogued this man as a harbinger of trouble and branded him with distrust, his own eyes contracted and the rose ceased twirling.
It is one who comes from the north who finds a marvel in the bigness and softness of southern stars. Now you have been away and have come home, dearest." She was standing very lancelike and straight by the slender bole of a silver birch. A golden sun flooded richly through the greenery.
The cheers, the roars, mounted in deafening volume. The Heathflower thing answered them by going down, down, till it seemed she lay quite flat on earth. And then she came up, up, with a leap so long, so lancelike, it recovered all she had lost. Again she thrust herself forward the horses either side of her thrust as far.
Toward the close of the second day corrugations began to appear in the level. Little ridges and valleys broke the monotony of travel; rocks began to dot the earth; the gray grass disappeared, the barren stretches grew larger and more frequent, and the yucca and the lancelike octilla began to appear here and there.
Denny Bolton felt her body shudder violently as he leaned over, dumb with bewilderment, and put his hands on her bowed head. "Thank God," he heard her whispering, "thank God thank God!" But far more swiftly than his half numbed brain could follow she was on her feet the next instant, tense and straight and lancelike in the gloom. "Damn 'em," she hissed. "Damn 'em damn 'em damn 'em!"
Cactus and yucca dotted the slopes, thorny, lancelike, repellent; lava, dull, hinting of volcanic fire, filled crevices and depressions, and huge blocks of stone, detached in the progress of disintegration, were scattered about. "It has taken ages for this to happen!" the Judge heard himself murmuring. Trevison laughed lowly. "So it has, Judge. Makes you think of your school days, doesn't it?
He snorted, leaped, and plunged forward, the clatter of his hoofs bringing lancelike streaks of fire out of the surrounding blackness. Behind him Trevison heard Corrigan raging impotently, profanely. There came another scattering volley. Trevison reeled, caught himself, and then hung hard to the saddle-horn, as Nigger fled into the night, running as a coyote runs from the daylight.
Gomes stabbed the radio-detonator button in front of him. Out on the rolling skyline, fifty miles away, a lancelike ray of blue-white light shot up into the gathering dusk a clump of five rays, really, from five deep shafts in an irregular pentagon half a mile across, blended into one by the distance.
She stood lancelike in her straightness and her eyes blazed, too, but her voice lost neither its control nor its dignity. "I mean," she said, "that this gentleman who needs no apologist and no defense, has honored me by telling me that he loves me and that I love him." "And his high courage has prevented him from admitting this to me and facing my just wrath?"
Hour after hour, as the scows rushed northward, Chloe watched the shores glide past; watched the swirling, boiling water of the river; watched the solemn-faced scowmen, and the silent, vigilant pilot; but most of all she watched the pilot, whose quick eye picked out the devious channel, and whose clear, alert brain directed, with a movement of the lancelike pole, the labours of the men at the sweeps.
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