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There was a tramp and clatter at the door a swaying and parting of the crowd. "Here are the sergents de ville!" cried a trembling waiter. "He attacked me first," gasped Müller. "He has half strangled me." "Qu'est ce que ça me fait!" shouted the enraged proprietor. "You are a couple of canaille! You have made a scandal in my Café. Sergents, arrest both these gentlemen!"
"'T is my cold heart," murmured Barbara with a little smile strangled in its birth. "Nay," replied her cousin thoughtfully as he pulled at his moustache and gazed upon the ground at his feet. "Nay, I call thee not so much heartless as fancy-free. Thou 'rt kind and gentle, ay, and loving as my dear mother knew. I'm well content with thy heart for such as it is, Barbara, if thou 'lt but give it me."
"He has spent the evening talking of nothing but himself, his journey, his wonderful book the strongest thing he has done yet, etc., etc., etc.; till I could have risen up and strangled him with my two hands. Oh, Helen my lovely one he is altogether unworthy of you! I saw a letter of yours long ago, in which you said he was like a young sun-god. Handsome he is, I admit.
Her two breasts, already nearly full-developed, fell over her chest, relaxed by death. The doctor lightly drew away the handkerchief which covered her face. It looked black, frightful, the tongue protruding, the eyes bloodshot. He went on: "Faith, she was strangled the moment the deed was done."
He confessed everything, where the king was, where you were. They are again hunting through the city for you. For the present you must hide with me." "The white woman must die," said Umballa in a voice like one being strangled. To this the priests agreed without hesitation. This white woman whom the people were calling a goddess was a deadly menace to that scepter of theirs, superstition.
He went up to the bedside and touched her timidly: "Leila, what is it? You're overtired. What's the matter? I couldn't help the child's being here. Why do you let it upset you? She's gone. It's all right. Things are just as they were." "Yes!" came the strangled echo; "just!" He knelt down and stroked her arm.
"No, my princess," answered Aladdin, with emotion, "I have not killed Fatima, but a villain who would have assassinated me, if I had not prevented him. This wicked man," added he, uncovering his face, "is the brother of the magician who attempted our ruin. He has strangled the true Fatima, and disguised himself in her clothes with intent to murder me."
People talked of a colossal wolf with gray fur, almost white, who had eaten two children, gnawed off a woman's arm, strangled all the watch dogs in the district, and even come without fear into the farmyards. The people in the houses affirmed that they had felt his breath, and that it made the flame of the lights flicker. And soon a panic ran through all the province.
'Was the child born? asks father. 'Yes, I reply, 'and she had strangled it. It was lying dead beside her. 'But she couldn't have been in her right mind. 'Oh, she knew well enough what she vas about! I say. 'She did it to get even with me for forcing myself upon her. Still she would never have done this thing had I married her.
A correspondent of Aubrey's vouches for a second-sighted man who babbled too much 'about the phairie, and 'was suddenly removed to the farther end of the house, and was there almost strangled'. This implies that spirits or 'Phairies' lifted him, as they did to a seer spoken of by Kirk, and do to the tribal medicine-men of the Australians, and of course, to 'mediums'.
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