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The noise went away up the lane with the men, who staggered together in a tight knot, remonstrating with one another foolishly. "Speak, Susan. What is it? Speak!" entreated Madame Levaille, as soon as the door was shut. Susan pronounced some incomprehensible words, glaring at the table.
From it came a single mighty throb of force like a prodigious heart-beat. Under that pulse of power the Emperor staggered, spun and spinning, swept Norhala from her feet, swung her close to its flashing rose. A second throb pulsed from the cones, and mightier. A spasm shook the Disk a paroxysm.
No sooner had his drunken tongue uttered the sentence than she smote with all her might the face gazing into hers. The blow for a moment staggered the man and he released his hold; in that instant of freedom Elinor sprang toward the window, dashing the curtains aside.
Stukely was knocked down and trodden under foot, men locked together in the grip of deadly strife reeled and staggered and stumbled over him, and finally he received a kick in the temple which so nearly robbed him of his senses that he was only very vaguely conscious of what was happening during the next minute or two.
Our Amazon's purpose was staggered by this providential incident; the sound of her native language, so unexpectedly heard, and so pathetically delivered, had a surprising effect upon her imagination; and the faculty of reflection did not forsake her in such emergency.
The great doctor pulled up short on the fourth step, as though the familiarity of the address surprised and somewhat shocked his dignity. "Toddy Macfarlane!" repeated Fettes. The London man almost staggered. He stared for the swiftest of seconds at the man before him, glanced behind him with a sort of scare, and then in a startled whisper, "Fettes!" he said, "you!" "Ay," said the other, "me!
You give me fifty thousand pounds as my share of Hallam, and you can have the reversion and leave the estate to whom you wish." The squire fairly staggered. Break the entail! Sell Hallam! The young man was either mad, or he was the most wicked of sons. "Does ta know what thou is talking about! Hallam has been ours for a thousand years. O Antony! Antony!"
Godfrey, staggered by the return shock, stood in the midst of a rain of fire which showered around him. The lightning had ignited the dry branches above him. They were incandescent particles of carbon which crackled at his feet. Godfrey with a shout awoke his companion. "Fire! Fire!" "Fire!" answered Tartlet. "Blessed be Heaven which sends it to us!"
In the beautiful drawing-room he saw two maids leaning over the Oriental couch. They were trying to quiet his daughter. "Why, Sylvia, my child," he cried. "Oh, oh!" exclaimed the girl, forcing herself free from the restraining hands of the servants. She laughed shrilly as she staggered toward her father. Her eyes were wide and staring with the light of madness. "Here's father! Dear father!"
This parting speech was so well got up, and had so much the tone of conscious integrity unjustly suspected, that even Colonel Mannering was staggered in his bad opinion. Glossin left the house half pleased with the impression he had made, half mortified by the stern caution and proud reluctance with which he had been received. 'Colonel Mannering might have had more politeness, he said to himself.
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