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Let me get at you let me get at you " She brandished the poker so menacingly that Mrs. Cross turned and fled. Martha pursued, yelling abuse and threats. The mistress vainly tried to shut the sitting-room door against her; in broke the furious maid, and for a moment so handled her weapon that Mrs. Cross with difficulty escaped a dangerous blow.
"I'm afraid, much as I desire not to prolong this unexpected interview, that I must ask you to explain just what it is that I must keep my hands off of, as you say. We will go into the wherefore of it later." Carlis glanced back of him into the empty hallway, then closed the door and came forward menacingly. "What's the good of beating about the bush?" he demanded, in a fierce undertone.
Only the squirrels, the mice and the rabbits seemed to possess cheerful and merry natures; yet would the boy laugh when the panther growled, and stroke the bear's glossy coat while the creature snarled and bared its teeth menacingly. The growls and snarls were not for Claus, he well knew, so what did they matter?
"What do you mean by that, sir?" exclaimed Haley, his eyes lighting up fiercely, as he strode to the spot where Robert stood, and frowned upon him, menacingly. "You asked my opinion, and I gave it," said Robert, not flinching. "I have a great mind to have you flogged, too!" said Haley. "I am not one of your crew, Captain Haley," said Robert, coolly; "and you have no right to lay a hand on me."
Akim stood as though struck by a thunderbolt. "Robber," he moaned at last, "robber.... Heigh, Fedka, Mitka, wife, wife, seize him, seize him hold him." He lost his head completely. "Mind now, old man," said Naum menacingly, "mind what you are about, don't play the fool...." "Beat him, wife, beat him!" Akim kept repeating in a tearful voice, trying helplessly and in vain to get up.
Only the heavy breathing of the tired boys gave evidence of life aboard the Fortuna as she rode to her anchor, swinging with the currents and wavelets. Her riding lights were burning brightly, fed from the storage batteries below decks, and everything to the passer by betokened peace. Once Rowdy lifted a watchful eye and growled menacingly.
"Are you not afraid?" she said, menacingly. "Do you not think that I have the power to hurt as I have hurt you before the power, and, still more, the will?" "I am not afraid." "Not afraid! You are hatefully quiet and impassive, just like ah, like all your race! Are you always so cold and still? Have you no blood in your veins?"
Everything seemed to grow cold, as if she had become enveloped in one of those fogs that suddenly blow down menacingly from hidden icebergs. Fortunately the inquiring eyes of the padre were not directed at her. He was here, not a dozen yards away, coming toward her, her father's arm in his! After what had passed he had dared!
"That he shall not," said his new friend. "Who is to prevent it?" demanded Jack, fiercely. "I will." "Then I'll pour a glass down your throat, too," returned Jack, menacingly. "No need of that. I am ready enough to drink. But the boy shan't drink, if he don't want to." "He shall!" retorted the first sailor, with an oath.
Then, raising her little clinched hand menacingly, she muttered through her set teeth: "Let him try even to touch my veil with his fingers! If I had not been obliged to go away, this would not have happened to my Taus and luckless Gula." "Scarcely," replied Bias calmly. "If the chicken runs into the water, the hen can not save it.