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And Plank liked him aside from gratitude; and they got on famously on the basis of such mutual recognition. Then, one day, very suddenly, Mortimer stumbled on something valuable a thread, a mere clew, so astonishing that for an instant it absolutely upset all his unadmitted theories and calculations.
I suppose the mating instinct is the one elemental thing left in the modern world." "It is the one dominant thing," answered Ainley, with such emphasis of conviction that the girl looked at him in quick surprise. "Why, Mr. Ainley, one would think that you that you " she hesitated, stumbled in her speech, and did not finish the sentence. Her companion had risen suddenly to his feet.
Indeed, at moments of the kind his discourse had assumed something of a literary vein, in that invariably he had stated that, being a worm of no account in the world, he was deserving of no consideration at the hands of his fellows; that in his time he had undergone many strange experiences; that subsequently he had suffered much in the cause of Truth; that he had many enemies seeking his life; and that, being desirous of rest, he was now engaged in searching for a spot wherein to dwell wherefore, having stumbled upon the town in which he now found himself, he had considered it his bounden duty to evince his respect for the chief authorities of the place.
This shooting scene was a fitting climax to a long and desperate chase over a difficult trail; so difficult that Pard stumbled and fell, supposedly with a broken leg, and Jean must run on and on afoot, and climb over rocks and spring across dangerous crevices. She was not supposed to know where her flight was taking her.
That streak of vanity which is in all of us came to the surface, as it does with the best of men at the best of times. I didn't see how I could possibly make a mistake, and the only thing that troubled me was the likelihood of some stray prospector having stumbled on the hoard by accident.
The night was cloudy at first, with sprinkling rain, but cleared up about midnight into a clear, cold autumn night. The cold kept me from getting sleepy, but when I got warm from walking my sleepiness grew overpowering. Ted was more wakeful than I, and took the lead, while I stumbled along behind, aching in every joint with sleepiness.
A soldier raised his rifle to fire, but Dick stumbled and fell against him and the bullet went high in the air. The moment had been long enough for Dick to recognize Victor Woodville. He did not know how he happened to be with Slade, but he did not intend that he should be shot there in the water, and his impulse was quick enough to save Victor's life.
One lion fell in his tracks, another stumbled to my very feet, and then I leaped within and slammed the portal to. A quick glance showed me that this was the only door to the small apartment in which we had found sanctuary, and, with a sigh of relief, I leaned for a moment against the panels of the stout barrier that separated us from the ramping demons without.
Then he added fiercely, "Go, girl, go at once, for if you stand there weeping before me any longer, I tell you that I shall change my mind, and as Nehushta says, imperil the safety of your soul, and of my own which does not matter." So Miriam stumbled from the room and through the curtained doorway. As Nehushta followed her Marcus caught her by the arm.
Finally, finding that he had gone pretty far, and with night closing in rapidly all around him, the boy had started to return. Becoming a little confused, he had stumbled one way and another, and in the end fallen over the edge of the shallow sink. Throwing out his hands even as he felt himself falling, he had caught hold of the projecting root.
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