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And once, or twice, or even three times perhaps, when some blinding daze of dizziness overwhelmed him, she climbed up with one foot into the roomy stirrup and steadied his swaying, unfeeling body against her own little harsh, reassuring, flannel-shirted breast. Mile after mile through the jet-black lattice-work of the tree-tops the August moon spotted brightly down on them.
Evidently the load was heavy, for it was well down in the water. The sail cloth was spread over all the boat, excepting one end where there was a small sheet-iron stove, with a pan of glowing wood coal underneath. The aroma of coffee came from a pot on the stove. As I steadied myself at the bow I touched a crumpled flag, Mexican, I thought, but I could not see.
"I can't afford to lose you, Babs: I love you too much." The tears were standing in his eyes, and the sight steadied her. Pillowing his head on her breast, she ran her fingers through his hair, caressing and soothing him like a child. "I've done this. . . . You must forgive me, Eric," she whispered.
In this way he is steadied and supported and his whole weight relieved, much more so than it would be with an ordinary walking-stick or with one in each hand. When he walks he keeps putting the staff, which he calls a bat, in front, and so poles himself along. There is an invalid boy in the yard, who walks with a similar stick.
They half felt that if they let themselves be influenced by Him it was all over, and so they set their teeth and steadied themselves in their antagonism. And that is what some of you are doing now.
The man suddenly stood up stared at him and said, "Hullo! is it you or your ghost?" His face was in shadow, but his voice answered for him. The man was Benjulia. "Have you come to see me?" he asked. "No." "Won't you shake hands?" "No." "What's wrong?" Ovid waited to answer until he had steadied his temper. "I have seen Carmina," he said. Benjulia went on with his smoking.
Withering glances were cast at the unlucky one, who seemed about to sink under the table, and the wind outside howled dismally, and rattled the windows in its rage. The situation was steadied somewhat by Senator Pennypacker.
Blake's hand fluttered. "You are aware what those wishes are?" said he. "I steadied his hand while he wrote," was her sad and earnest reply. Mr. Blake turned with a look of inexpressible deference to his wife.
Immediately the song ceased and he steadied himself, gazing incredulously after the form that had attracted his attention. "Hello!" he said. "Avast, my dear!" he called out.
Wiley was the heavier of the two, but indolence and dissipation had softened him and Thode was in the pink of condition. After the first blind onslaught he steadied himself and parried, waiting for the opening his opponent's uncontrolled rage would give him. It was soon forthcoming; a side-stepped lunge left Wiley's pallid face exposed and Thode caught him fairly on the point of the jaw.
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