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The blade descended, and it was only by a display of surprising agility that the large man escaped, with only a bruised shoulder, the glancing weapon. He was drawing his pistol as he sprang, and the next instant he shot the admiral down. Don Sabas stooped over him, and rose again. "In the heart," he said briefly. "Senores, the navy is abolished."
The northern komatik trail crossed twenty miles seaward, where the calm, wide expanse made the ice much safer in the early winter than near the swift current at the river mouth. But as he stooped to clear the trunk for his own axe, he noticed that, though disguised as a break, a cut had been first made to weaken the bough. "Some one's been here, that's sure," he said to himself. "Who can it be?"
He stooped forward in order to take off the handkerchief which covered her face, then paused, with outstretched hand, restrained by an idea that occurred to him. Had he the right to disarrange anything in the condition of the corpse before the official investigation?
Colonel Arran's eyes opened as she stooped at his bedside and laid her lips lightly on his forehead. "Is there another chair?" he asked wearily. Ailsa's glance just rested on Berkley, measuring him in expressionless disdain. Then, as he brought another chair, she seated herself. "You, too, Philip," murmured the wounded man.
Sure enough there was Johnson's, no doubt, that had been shot from its socket by the clapping to of the door, and afterwards kicked aside by the warder in his convulsive struggles. I stooped, only too thankful for the respite, and drew it forth. I had seen it but once before, yet I recognised it at a glance.
The Queen of England stooped to urge her servants to murder her kinswoman; when they refused, she was mean enough to contrive so as to throw the responsibility upon her secretary, Davison. After Mary's death, she wrote to King James and expressed her sincere regret at having cut off the head of his mother by accident.
A little urchin, not above six years old, but who was lame, began to cry; he could not run, he should be left behind. Margrave stooped. "Climb on my shoulder, little one, and I'll be your horse." The child dried its tears, and delightedly obeyed. "Certainly," said I to myself, "Margrave, after all, must have a nature as gentle as it is simple.
"I meant it as my gift to the Church, monsieur le Cure to Pontiac, where I was born again. I waked up here to what I might do in sculpture, and you you all were so ready to suspect! Take it, it is my last gift." He went to the statue, touched the hands of it lovingly, and stooped and kissed the feet. Then, without more words, he turned and left the shed and the house.
"Did you not hear my father?" said Vaninka, smiling, but nevertheless possessing sufficient self-control to prevent the emotion she was feeling from appearing in her voice. Foedor stooped to kiss Vaninka, and as he held her hands it seemed to him that she lightly pressed his own with a nervous, involuntary movement.
She wheeled about and rubbed her cheeks. Gwynne stooped suddenly and kissed the little black mole on her shoulder. "This is all I ask in return for the baubles," he murmured; and then as he met a blazing eye: "Could I do less than restore your lovely color? But I must fly and get into my togs."
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