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Tristan l'Hermite in his corner wore the surly look of a dog who has had a bone snatched away from him. Meanwhile, the king thrummed gayly with his fingers on the arm of his chair, the March of Pont-Audemer. He was a dissembling prince, but one who understood far better how to hide his troubles than his joys.
With a little cry, she snatched her hand from him, hiding it in the folds of her kirtle, regarding him with open terror. He softened somewhat at sight of her distress. "Well, it's none of my business if a lady chooses to be masquerading round the streets at night with a porter and a lackey. I don't know what your purpose is I don't ask to know. But I'm here to keep my gate, and I'll keep it.
He snatched a letter from his pocket and thrust it into the hands of the bewildered man. "Read that. It is signed by another Commissioner the Commissioner of Police." With amazement written all over him, the other obeyed. "You see," continued my friend, tersely "it is carte blanche. I wish to commandeer your car, sir, on a matter of life and death!". The other returned the letter.
Then the hush of silence out of which came the faint mutter of the stream. Giovanni trembled and the sweat on his body grew cold: less from reaction than from the thought that actual murder had been snatched from his hands. For several minutes he waited, dreading, but there was no further sound.
Benedek snatched the paper away from the man's fingers and read the little paragraph out aloud. For a moment she was deathly white. "What is it?" Selingman demanded. "Freddy Baring," she whispered "Captain Baring shot himself in his room at the Admiralty this afternoon! Some one telephoned to him. Five minutes later he was found dead a bullet wound through his temple!... Give me my chair, please.
He now felt the deepest loathing of all about him; and a passionate longing for the peaceful and pure home among sages, from which he had been snatched as a boy, came over him with increasing vehemence.
He made one or two whirlwinds; clove the press, and snatched away the Princess from the arms of the Queen-Mother, took her in his own, and whisked her out of the Hall. All the world followed; the carriages were waiting in the court; and the Princess in a moment found herself in hers.
She snatched it off, and taking out her scissors, she soon cut it into pieces, which Heinrich knotted one to the other, and lowered into the crevasse. "Can you reach it?" he cried, putting his head as far over the edge as possible, and peering into the green depths.
Don Andres held Dade's hand a shade longer than the most gracious hospitality demanded, while his eyes dwelt solicitously upon his face, browned near to the shade of a native son of those western slopes. "I heard of your brave deed, Señor of how you rode into the midst of the Vigilantes and snatched your friend from under the very shadow of the oak.
Just at that moment, the mother, to her horror, saw a deadly reptile coiled in the very path along which the child was rolling his "bushee," and with true frontier woman's pluck, ran and snatched up the bare-footed Fernando, when only within two feet of the deadly serpent, carried him to the house, and with the stout staff assailed and killed the rattlesnake.
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