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Leaves rustled faintly outside the window at my back: I construed their sibilant whispers into the dreaded name Fu-Manchu Fu-Manchu Fu-Manchu! So wore on the night; and, when the ticking clock hollowly boomed the hour of one, I almost leapt out of my chair, so highly strung were my nerves, and so appallingly did the sudden clangour beat upon them. Smith, like a man of stone, showed no sign.
The country all round was under the sway of a brigand leader, and sorely the villagers suffered at his hands now that he had leapt into unexpected power.
He's all right again, I believe." "We have heard nothing of it. There's your whistle. Good-bye!" Jacks leapt into his train, waved a hand from the window, and was whirled away. For the rest of her journey, Irene seemed occupied with an alternation of grave and amusing thoughts. At moments she looked seriously troubled.
At the head of the wharf vague figures with rifles leapt to the head of his horse; others closed upon him cargadores of the company posted by Captain Mitchell on the watch. At a word from him they fell back with subservient murmurs, recognizing his voice. At the other end of the jetty, near a cargo crane, in a dark group with glowing cigars, his name was pronounced in a tone of relief.
It was the Baron himself. 'Who's there? he inquired. 'James Hayward! replied the young man fiercely, 'and he demands his wife. The Baron leapt out, and told the coachman to drive back out of sight and wait for him. 'I was hastening to find you, he said to Jim. 'Your wife is where she ought to be, and where you ought to be also by your own fireside. Where's the other woman?
All big things there, and somewhere sailing with those clouds, on the storm, the spirit of his mother ... that little black coffin standing, surely, for nothing that mattered. But, strangely enough, when the black box had been lowered, at the sharp rattling of the sods upon the lid, his sorrow leapt to his eyes. Suddenly the sense of his loss drove down upon him.
One of the special events of the voyage was the two days' sports, and here Shafto distinguished himself by winning a severe obstacle race; he was a nimble, muscular youth, who, thanks to school games and the gymnasium, climbed, ran, and leapt with inspirited agility, and when at last he touched the winning tape, breathless but exultant, there was a spontaneous outburst of clapping and cheers.
It was true; for when we paused from our labours for a moment to verify the statement I counted four separate points of light, and while we still stood looking, another and another leapt out of the darkness. "The alarm is given and the men are being roused!" I exclaimed.
He was trembling, aware that the crisis had suddenly leapt at him. "Oh!" She had read the opening phrase; she had received the first shock. But the tone of her exclamation gave no clue at all to her attitude. It might mean anything anything. She shut her eyes; then glanced at him, terror-struck, appealing, wistful, implacable. "Not at once?" "Yes, at once."
Helpless wretch thy frail canoe has leapt that dizzy water-cliff, Niagara! But if, in doing that fell deed, madness raged upon the minutes, now that it was done all still, all calm, all quiet, Terror held the hour-glass of Time. There lay the corpse, motionless, though coiled and cramped in the attitude of struggling agony; and the murderer gazed upon his victim with a horror most intense.
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