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As soon as he reached the farmhouse he leaped from the gig and had no further trouble in finding the regiment. Jean addressed him in amazement: "What, is it you? What is the meaning of this? I thought you were to wait until we came along." Maurice's tone and manner told of his rage and sorrow.
During the first three days after the terrible news had been flashed over the world the relief fund from the nation had leaped beyond the $5,000,000 mark. New York took the lead in the most generous giving that the world has ever seen.
Then suddenly, even as she drew back from him, hurt to the heart, some trick of moonlight on his half-hidden face, linked to swift memory, showed her another moonlight night, a canoe, a story told and in a flash the miracle had happened. Intuition had leaped the gulf of his enforced silence Esther knew. A great wonder grew in her eyes, an immense relief.
I was to the wheel and knew the second the anchor was clear of the bottom by the way she leaped under me. "Don't stop to cat-head that anchor," I calls, "but cut her hawser."
"There is a stream four paces from here," said his companion. "I will get some water in my cap," and he leaped away. In a few moments he came back holding his cap tenderly, and the Philosopher took this and drank the water. "I want nothing more in the world," said he, "except to talk with you. The sun is shining, the wind is pleasant, and the grass is soft.
The helm went up as he spoke, and the men leaped to their feet, raining arrows round the two men who were at the helm, and down on the Viking we swept with a great cheer.
I walked quickly to the outer door. Little Pete switched on his engine as I leaped into the car. My "Let her go!" wasn't needed to make him throw in his clutch, and give me a flying start straight ahead down the broad plank way of the Embarcadero.
It appeared almost certain that both must have perished; but in a few seconds the man was seen to descend the lower stair with the woman in his arms, and in another moment a wild enthusiastic cheer burst from the vast multitude as he leaped into the street. Laying Martha gently down on a doorstep, Sparks bent over her, and whispered in her ear.
Behind him, as a clown, beating a bass drum, extraordinarily happy and noisy, was Babbitt. Warren Whitby leaped on the platform, made merry play with his baton, and observed, "Boyses and girlses, the time has came to get down to cases.
Shells not merely whistled and screamed overhead, they leaped from the ground beneath one's feet with a flame that burned, a roar that deafened, and a displacement of air that swept one away.
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