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But then his neglected wound was causing him infinite pain, and the loss of blood aggravated it by a feeling of utter weariness. The fire spluttered just beyond the door of the tent. Its cheerful light supported the efforts of the kerosene lamp within. Peigan Charley squatted over its friendly warmth, his lean hands outheld to its flickering blaze in truly Indian fashion.
But Eliot made no attempt to take the outheld hand. He did not appear to see it, and Mrs. Hilyard let it drop slowly down again on to her lap. "Forgotten Cara Daintree?" he said lightly. "Is it likely I should?" "Cara Hilyard, now." She corrected him a shade nervously. "Oh, yes. Hilyard, isn't it? Of course." His glance flashed over her face, searching and cold as a hawk's.
Moffat's sustaining arm, I did not need the startling picture of the prisoner, standing upright, with outheld and repellant hands, to realise that the impossible had happened, and that all which he, as well as I, had done and left undone, suffered and suppressed, had been in vain. Mr.
A train full of young soldiers was beside her train, and in the window opposite hers three boys' faces crowded to look at her. Three hands held out three handkerchiefs not very white certainly, but Betty smiling reached out the bottle and poured lavender water on each outheld handkerchief. "Ah, le bon souvenir!" said one.
I have told you a hundred times that he is brother and father and everything to me. I am so glad that he should come to-day of all days." He turned towards the stairs with a gesture of welcome, still with his two arms outheld, as if inviting the man, who came rather slowly upstairs, to come to his embrace and to the embrace of those who were now his relations.
His restless hands unceasingly wrung each other as if he had that moment made his own acquaintance and was trying to infuse a false geniality into the meeting. When he spoke he had a trick of opening his mouth for a word and holding it so, a not over-clean forefinger poised above an outheld palm. It seemed to the listener that the word when it came would mean much.
He had understood from her reply to his letter summoning her. There was no need for the confirmation he read now in her unsmiling eyes. "You sent for me?" she said. Nancy's voice was deep and rich for all her youth. Then with a display of some slight confusion, she suddenly realised the welcoming hand outheld.
"Tell me," she said. "Are you married, Garth?" He started. "Married! God forbid!" "And if you married me, would you be wronging any one?" "Only you yourself," he answered grimly. "Then nothing else matters. You are free and I'm free. And I love you!" She leaned towards him, her hands outheld, her mouth still touched with that little, mystic smile.
Finally Hanlon rose, and the toogan flew onto his outheld arm much as a falcon might ride. In that manner they returned to the main office where the others were still working. They were all amazed at this peculiar situation, but only Admiral Hawarden came even close to guessing what was going on.
I know that I cried out, hiccoughing. Assaulted by the horrible kiss and by the vile clasp that bruised the hand I had offered to the woman's beauty a hand still outheld sunk in whirling smoke and ashes and the dreadful noise now majestically ebbing, I found my way out of the place, between walls that reeled as I did. Bodily, the house collapsed behind me.
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