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In the churchyard of the quiet little German town they laid the mortal remains of Friedrich Heinz, to await the resurrection morning. Tears rose to the eyes of many onlookers as Frida threw herself, sobbing, on the grave of her father.
Had the two batsmen been playing for their lives they could not have been more anxiously watched; even Pembury became silent. And now the last ball of the over is bowled in dead silence. Onlookers can even hear the whizz with which it leaves Wren's hand. It is almost wide, but Oliver steps out to it and just touches it. Webster is half across the wickets already ready for a bye.
Whilst I was in the storm of it, cursing the lawyer by every shouted epithet I could lay tongue to, a miracle was wrought and Richard Jennifer and Ephraim Yeates pushed their way through the ever-thickening ring of onlookers; the latter to range himself beside me with his brown-barreled rifle in the hollow of his arm, and my dear lad to fling himself upon me in a bear's hug of joyous recognition and greeting.
They moved on, and the onlookers, still canvassing the incident, scattered their various ways. It was Coxon who told Lady Eynesford about it afterwards, and her comment to the Governor that evening at dinner was, "There, Willie! Didn't I tell you something horrid would come of having those people?" No one answered her. The Governor knew better than to encourage a discussion.
"The Sheriff will clear the court," said the Judge sternly; but, alas! as the embarrassed and choking officials rushed hither and thither, a soft "Keeree" from the spectators at the window, OUTSIDE the court-house, was answered by a loud chorus of "Keerows" from the opposite windows, filled with onlookers.
I think he would have carried his extravagance to the point of summoning his four gypsy witches of partners, and committing them to my care, if the crowd had not at that moment parted before the remaining dancers, and left one of the onlookers, a tall, slender girl, calmly surveying them through gold-rimmed eyeglasses in complete critical absorption.
The players knew something that those upon the seats did not know, and thrilled with a keener joy than the onlookers dreamed of. If he could only be given another chance to do something for Marjory something that would bite into him, something that would twist his body and maul him! If he could not face some serious physical danger for her, then some great sacrifice
Again I was a Paul Pry, we have to be, you know, if we're to do anything worth doing, and I took him while he sat. But I dare say you'd better see it first." He took another and smaller picture and placed it on the easel, standing for a moment between it and the onlookers and studying it closely. Then he stepped aside in silence.
Then they were stripped naked and led, by order of the bishop of Puy and others, through all the nearby camps, and beaten in the cruellest fashion with whips, to the terror of the onlookers.
Leaden clouds went scudding from horizon to horizon, accentuating the chalky whiteness of the cliffs, and reflecting their sombre hue on the gray waters. A cold, raw wind swept through the old town, lashing the sea to milk-crested waves. It was an ugly day for cross-Channel passages, but the expectant onlookers sighted the black smoke of the Calais-Douvres fully twenty minutes before she was due.
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