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"I almost think you mean it," he said after a short pause. "Good," said Donnegan. "I do not wish to kill you unprepared." There was a strangled sound deep in the throat of Godwin; then he was able to speak again, but now his voice was made into a horrible jumble by fear. "Pal," he said, "you're dead wrong. George here he's a devil.
Mouth and lips and tongue, and all sensitive membranes, were a blaze of fire. He gasped and nearly coughed several times, while involuntary tears brimmed in his eyes and ran down his cheeks. An ordinary man would have coughed and strangled for half an hour. But old Koho's face was grimly composed.
Theobald did not lay so much stress on this as she did, but as she settled what he should have at dinner she could take care that he got no strangled fowls; as for black puddings, happily, he had seen them made when he was a boy, and had never got over his aversion for them.
Who has thought of depicting those violent governors of the provinces, who slaughtered the people recklessly, committed rapes and swept in gold, like D'Epernon, an atrocious tyrant in Provence and a perfumed courtier at the Louvre; like Montluc, who strangled Huguenots with his own hands, or Baligui, the king of Cambrai, who read Machiavel in order to copy the Valentinois, and whose wife went to war on horseback, wearing a helmet and a cuirass.
Short rope halters barely five feet long were stripped from the horses, knotted round the prisoners' necks, and fastened to the limb of a juniper tree. Taggart climbed to the high wagon seat, took a header and broke his neck. The wagon was then pulled away and Lee strangled. With Cleveland, Lee, and Taggart dead, Engineer Webster and La Fer were fairly well avenged.
"You come here into a respectable house, to boast that you have stolen letters, strangled this man, drugged that other? Why, sir, it is downright madness. I wished to hear you to the end, to see to what extent you would carry your audacity for none but a monstrous rascal would venture to plume himself on such infamous crimes. But I prefer believing, that they exist only in your imagination."
The search was continued between the base of the mountain and the river without finding any sign of Spencer's family, until about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when we discovered them between the upper and lower landing, in a small open space about a mile from the road, all dead strangled to death with bits of rope. The party consisted of the mother, two youths, three girls, and a baby.
Finally, as he came out of a hole two nimble dogs set upon him and strangled him at the first grip. Too many expedients may spoil the business. One loses time in choosing between them and in trying too many. Have only one; but let it be a good one. Bertrand was a monkey and Ratter was a cat. They shared the same dwelling and had the same master, and a pretty mischievous pair they were.
"Says I'm white-slavin' a girl, does he? I'll learn him to lie about me," he growled. Johnnie strangled and sputtered, fighting for breath to relieve his tortured lungs. "Gimme the word, an' I'll run him in for a drunk," the policeman suggested out of the corner of a whispering mouth. Jerry shook his head. "Nope. Let him go, Pete."
At a movement of Anthony he screamed in a strangled whisper. "Don't, sir! Don't touch it." The captain pushed aside Powell's extended arm, took up the glass and raised it slowly against the lamplight. The liquid, of very pale amber colour, was clear, and by a glance the captain seemed to call Powell's attention to the fact.
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