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"To you, Jacques Collin, though it is degrading Justice, which ought never to condescend to such a compromise, I believe I may relax the rigidity of my office and refer the case to my superiors." "Will you grant me this life?" "Possibly." "Monsieur, I implore you to give me your word; it will be enough." Monsieur Granville drew himself up with offended pride.
"Rescue the Perishin'; Care for the Dyin'." Then Tess felt Andy's body relax and heard the faintest possible sigh. When Burnett came forth unsuccessful but cheerful, her fingers were toying with her curls, and she broke off her song, question him with her eyes. "There ain't a soul in there," laughed the man.
Celia Jane at that sat down on the floor and let her body relax into a limp bundle. "I won't go!" she sobbed. "I won't leave mother! What would I do without mother?"
His exterior created in the beholder the idea of strength, united with manly gracefulness. "His manners were rather reserved than free, though they partook nothing of that dryness and sternness which accompany reserve when carried to an extreme, and on all proper occasions he could relax sufficiently to show how highly he was gratified by the charms of conversation and the pleasures of society.
I am not convinced of his guilt. I don't believe any slave evidence given under torture. A tortured slave will say anything he thinks likely to relax his sufferings or please his questioners. And I see no proof of Calvaster's guilt in the other evidence. Everybody buys such drugs as he bought. And suppose he did joke about Pulfennia's tenacity to life, who wouldn't?
This proved to be so disastrous for their colonies that the French Government soon was forced to relax its restrictions. The British also made some concessions, and where their orders were not modified they were evaded. And so, in the course of a few years, the West India trade recovered. * Clive Day, "Encyclopedia of American Government," Vol. I, p. 340.
As his wrist went back by fractions of an inch, his fingers were forced to relax. I knew the trick. It was the scientific way to open a clenched fist. As the tendons refused to stretch any farther, his fingers straightened, and a murderous looking blackjack clattered to the floor. All was confusion. Money which was on the various tables disappeared as if by magic.
Nance saw her hero's face contract and then relax again at sight of it; and she thought that she knew why, for the sprawling, gross black characters of the address were easily distinguishable from the fine writing on the former letter that had so much disturbed him.
Great shoulders bulging with the effort, muscles standing in knots on his heavy arms, he nearly succeeded in breaking free. Denny felt the tie that bound him relax ever so little as the monster centered its attention on the stronger man. With a last effort, he tore his right arm free, and wriggled partly around in the thing's grip.
"I told her that jest's soon as the Panchronicle hed got rested and got its breath, we'd set off quick fer home you an' me. Thet's so, ain't it, Phoebe?" she concluded, with plaintive anxiety in her voice. "I'll take the letter right along," said Phoebe, with sudden determination. But Rebecca would not at once relax her hold on the envelope. "That's so, ain't it, dearie?" she insisted.
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