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Dick slumped into a chair, at last beaten down by this cumulative revelation. He buried his face in his hands and his panting breath was convulsive with unuttered sobs. Maggie looked down upon the young boy, with pity, remorse, and an increasing recognition of the wide-spread suffering she had wrought. "To think that this has all been horrible make-believe!" he at last groaned.
The escorts themselves scarcely noticed the said pretty girls, for they were gazing down on the field the field about which were scattered eleven players in blue, and eleven in dull red, all motionless now, amazed or joyful, according to their color, over the feat of Andy Blair. On the Harvard stands there was glumness. The red banners slumped in nerveless hands. It had come as a shock.
Miss Blanche LeHaye had got into her kimono again. She was slumped in a dejected heap in a chair before the window. There was a tray, with a bottle and some glasses on the table by her side. "Gawd, ain't it hot!" she whined miserably. "Come on in a minute. I left the door open to catch the breeze, but there ain't any. You look like a peach just off the ice. Got a gent friend in town?"
Another projectile chose as its target the tall white campanile, which suddenly slumped into the street, a heap of brick and plaster. Now and again we caught glimpses of tiny figures Italian soldiers, most likely scuttling for shelter.
" ... Estimate the time it would take a 300-ton rocket ship with half-filled tanks, cruising at the most economical speed to make a trip from Titan to Venusport. He thought. He slumped in his chair. He stared at the ceiling. He chewed his pencil.... Five seats away, Tom stacked his examination sheets neatly, twisted them into a cylinder and inserted them in the tube.
The former good-naturedly tossed a cigarette over to the prisoner, with the remark: "Have a smoke, Windy it's the last you'll get for some time." Moran, slumped in a tipped-back chair, blew a whiff of smoke from a lop-sided mouth. "Six months!" chanted he lugubriously, "an' they call this a free country! free hell! "Oh, bury me out on th' lone prair-ee, Where th' wild ki-oot'll howl over me,
"Mind she's going to faint!" warned Mullinix. Both of them sprang forward and together they eased the limp shape down upon the rug. She lay there at their feet, a pitiable little bundle. But there was no compassion, no mercifulness in their faces as they looked down at her. Alongside the slumped form Miss Smith knelt down and felt for the clasp of the slender chain and undid it.
What is the supreme idea in the heart and mind of youth? To win fame and fortune: and particularly to enjoy them. Spurlock slumped in his chair, weak and empty. This was the bitterest hour he had ever known. From thoughts of fame to thoughts of mere bread and butter! It seemed to Spurlock that he had tumbled off the edge of Somewhere into the abyss of Nowhere.
While we were in there together, Rákóczi was sounding off in an effort to crack my nerve. Called me a lot of names, that sort of thing. But he also said, I'll try to repeat this exactly, No longer do you worry about locating the Sov-world underground and helping overthrow the Party, eh?" Armstrong slumped down into the bedside chair. "Dash it! That makes it definite.
Robert poured out with an eye trained to accurate measurements in the laboratory. It was his practice to do well everything that he had to do. Otherwise you lost tone you weakened your own fibre so that when the big thing came along you slumped. But he could not forget Francey Wilmot's nearness. It did not surprise him any more. But it charged him with unrest, and he and his unrest frightened him.
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