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But Ventnor himself, the consciousness that was Ventnor was gone; had withdrawn into that subjective void in which he had said he floated a lonely sentient atom, his one line of communication with us cut; severed from us as completely as though he were, as he had described it, outside space.
But the brambles now lay scattered around like severed bits of rope, the stones had been thrown some distance away, and the breach itself seemed to have been enlarged by some furious hand. 'Ah! I felt sure of it, cried Albine, in accents of supreme despair. 'I begged you to take me away Serge, I beseech you, don't look through it.
Often it happened that the moment they sank to the ground the lower extremities became paralyzed; soon after that, a few drops of blood from the nose indicated the moribund condition. Severed were all bonds of brotherly love, extinguished all human feeling toward those who, from exhaustion, had fallen on the road.
Oh, I shall never forget the shock I had when I saw my poor dear mistress lying dead at the foot of her bed, steeped in blood, and with such a horrible gash in her throat that for a moment I thought her head was severed from the trunk." The police sergeant corroborated the steward's story. "The murder certainly was committed with peculiarly horrible violence, sir," he remarked.
He was but a child when we parted, and he has felt embarrassment in resuming connections which for a long interval had been inevitably severed. Remember what a change his life had to endure; few, after such an interval, would have returned with feelings so kind and so pure! 'He was always a favourite of yours, mamma!
Could he indulge the unholy thought that the Italian had cast her off, and supplied her place with the younger beauty? Away with such a thought! It was not jealousy of that younger lady that Dacres perceived; it was the cry of a loving, yearning heart that clung to that other one, from whom the Italian had violently severed her. There was no mistake as to the source of this sorrow.
"He's cut his wind-pipe and all he can do is gaggle!" cried Mr. Hicks, excitedly, and made a frenzied attack on the door that strained the lock to the utmost. If the noise he made was any criterion it was judged that Pinkey's head must be nearly severed from his body which made the resistance he displayed all the more remarkable.
If Eva entered the cloister before him, the only strong tie which united him to the world would be severed, and nothing save the thought of his mother would prevent his following his vocation. Yet vehement indignation seized him when he heard from Biberli that the slanderer's malice would force Eva to seek refuge with the Sisters. No, a thousand times no!
The leader had reached the door and Billy was frantically imploring old Sikaso to let him shoot when an appalling shriek rent the air. The old Krooman's axe flashed once in the moonlight and the leader of the attacking party lay dead at the tent door, severed almost to the chest. There was not a second's time, however, to take in what had happened.
"I have severed one bar," said Willis, "and the other is nearly through at one end, so keep your minds perfectly at ease." "Your patience and equanimity, Willis, does you infinite credit," said the missionary.
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