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Barstow took out his watch and squatting nearer him studied him with interest. Suddenly the dog's legs crumpled beneath him. He tried to stand, to make his way to his master, but instantly toppled over on his side. Donaldson reached for him. That which he lifted was like a limp glove. He drew back from it in horror, glancing up at Barstow.
"And, sir," said he, "you may thank the young man who lives next door to you Mr. Brice, I believe for saving your son's life." "Stephen Brice!" exclaimed Mr, Brinsmade, in astonishment. Virginia felt Anne's hand tighten But her own was limp. A hot wave swept over her, Was she never to hear the end of this man. "Yes, sir, Stephen Brice," answered Mr. Sherman.
Whatever he still lacked in mere physical strength, he was the same buoyant, cheerful Tom, with only a slight limp in his walk, and a touch of haunting wistfulness in his gray eyes as a reminder of his terrible experience. At home once more and surrounded by every luxury and with every consideration that those who loved him could offer, health came back with a rush.
If people laugh in your face, it's no use explainin'. I took a roan from Weigall's, and they got after me. 'Bout six miles up they shot at me an' hurt me." She saw that one arm hung limp at his side and that his wrist was wound with a red bandana. She started forward. "Are you hurt bad? Can I bind it up or wash it for you? I've got plenty of hot water here, and it's bad letting a wound get stale."
Briley often made his seven-mile journey in entire solitude, except for the limp leather mail-bag, which he held firmly to the floor of the carriage with his heavily shod left foot. The mail-bag had almost a personality to him, born of long association. Mr.
He stood in the room near the sideboard, tremblingly listening. For again there was a step on the stairs. When he saw the door begin to open his knees knocked together, but there entered, not the dread apparition he expected, but Alva Dale, with the limp form of a woman in his arms! The sudden breaking of the tension, and astonishment over what he saw, made Maison's voice hoarse.
And I will not be content merely to sit here and wait for clients that may never come. I am going to do something." A year passed by. Caruthers dozed with his cob pipe between the fingers of his limp hand, waiting for clients whose step was not heard upon the stairs. But the office had not been wholly without business.
A few rods behind, Tim and Charlie had upset, Tim falling head over heels into the snow at the side of the road and Charlie tumbling almost directly into the path of a coming sled. The boy steering, however, managed to swing out and avoid the limp and flattened Charles.
"Then we shall have to carry her," said Madame De Lacy, and she turned to her son. "I fear I can offer no assistance," said the lieutenant, pointing to his arm which was hanging limp at his side. "Why, Albert, are you hurt? What is the matter? You are hurt!" cried his mother, anxiously. "Not much, but I fear my arm is useless. You might feel it," he said to Ranald.
The limp wobbling skeleton that only a moment before had sat there as in a faint and let himself be raised up by the physician and the Philosopher, suddenly jumped up with a jerk, and tore his arms away so violently that the two men who were about to assist him were sent tumbling up against the others. He bent over with crooked knees, staggering like a man carrying a heavy load on his back.
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