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I will torture Monte-Cristo's son, but not in a way that the law can reach! "'Let him be tortured! Let him pay for all the agony his father has inflicted on me! "'You shall be satisfied! "The two men then walked away still talking, but in such low voices that I could not hear. I rushed from my hiding-place and hastened to my room.
Suddenly he starts, turns his head, and listens eagerly, and with a strange agitation. Some one had tried the door. For a few moments he stood in an attitude of the most profound attention. But the trial was not repeated. How audibly, to his own ears, throbbed his heart! How oppressed was his bosom! How, in a current of fire, rushed the blood to his over-excited brain!
The enemy opened fire as soon as the scouts appeared; but these, with the Houssa company of Russell's regiment, rushed impetuously into the village, and the Ashantis at once bolted. Two of them were killed and five taken prisoners. The next halting places of the advance troops were Kiang Bossu and Ditchiassie.
There was no chance of dodging unpopular jobs, for they worked out on an absolutely fair system. For instance, the first time the telephone bell went after 8 a.m. She rushed out to her car, but before going "warned" B. that when the bell next went it would be her job, and so on throughout the day.
Meanwhile the mate, clamped to the wheel, ready to die rather than leave it, was directing the boat in zigzags so as not to offer a fixed point to the submarine. All the crew were watching from the rail the distant and insignificant upright periscope. The third officer had rushed out of his stateroom, almost naked, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
Music is the true narcotic for excitable brains. My harp! my harp!" He rushed away in his chair to the far end of the room, passing Mrs. Macallan as she returned to me, bent on hastening our departure. "Come!" said the old lady, irritably. "You have seen him, and he has made a good show of himself. More of him might be tiresome. Come away." The chair returned to us more slowly.
"I'll run down now be back in a second." And Papa Claude rushed impetuously from the room. Eleanor and Harold stood facing each other where he had left them, he with an air of apologetic amusement, and she with an angry dignity that rested incongruously on her childish prettiness. "Will you please go down and tell Mr.
At length the murmurers gained head, and the men broke into open mutiny. A body of them rushed one day on to the quarter-deck, and demanded that the voyage should be relinquished. Phipps, however, was not a man to be intimidated; he seized the ringleaders, and sent the others back to their duty.
There was no time to be lost, faster and faster they were being driven into the harbour. Captain Wylie rushed downstairs; and here confusion and terror reigned, for bad news travels fast, and a panic had seized the poor fellows who were still weak from recent illness. They were dragging themselves out of their berths. "Get her ready, here are two belts," he cried, and, throwing them to Mr.
"I can still remember very well how at one of the great Dionysiac festivals, fired by the power of the god, you rushed through the streets with a deer-skin over your shoulders." "That was delightful lovely!" cried Doris with sparkling eyes. "But thirty years since it was all different, very different.
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