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It seemed to Myrtle Hazard, that evening, that she felt the bracelet on her wrist glow with a strange, unaccustomed warmth. It was as if it had just been unclasped from the arm of a yohng woman full of red blood and tingling all over with swift nerve-currents. Life had never looked to her as it did that evening.
"You want me to go away," she inferred swiftly. He flung down his spade. "It is certainly up to me to obey orders," he said. "Pardon me, if I seem to have forgotten the fact. Shall we make the list now?" Inwardly he was cursing himself for his stupidity. Perhaps he had been mistaken the night before. His fancy had taken a swift leap in the dark and landed where?
But first I will show you that I am a man of my word." He swung round upon his heel to leave her. But in that instant the warning voice cried out again in Olga's soul, compelling her to swift action. She sprang after him, caught his arm, clinging to it with all her failing strength. "You will not!" she gasped out in an agony of entreaty. "You could not! You shall not!"
The boy John was sitting on the wharf, watching the ebb of the tide. The current was swift, for there had been heavy rains within a few days; the river was full of drifting logs, bits of bark, odds and ends of various kinds; the water, usually so blue, looked brown and thick.
This feminine flight was too swift for Austin Turold to follow. "What has that to do with what we are talking about?" he demanded. "When we reached the door last night it was Thalassa who let us in, with his hat and coat on, ready to go out. There was something strange and furtive about his manner, too, for I never took my eyes off him, and I'm sure he had something on his mind.
A trip up a large and swift river, totally unknown to maps in its upper portions, for three hundred miles, equal to the distance from Brunswick, Me., to New York City, in open fifteen feet boats, is of itself an achievement worthy of remark.
Runners came from three of the other villages, and they were the flower of the tribe lithe, sinewy, swift and splendid specimens of manly beauty, symmetry and grace.
When she came out, a half-hour later, with elation in her carriage, and tears of joy running down her face, she did not look about her; she did not care whether or not any one saw her: she was possessed with only one thought her child! She passed like a swift wind down the street, making for home and for her departure to the hiding-place of her child.
"I do not doubt that there will come a day when we'll walk over the plains of the sun the flesh of our body then as gauze, moved at will where we please and swift as thought inner and outer motion keeping time with the beat and rhythm of that where we are " "The young do not speak the auld tongue." "Tongues alter with the rest."
"Perhaps I can guess enough to satisfy myself." She gave him a swift, sidelong look of challenge, instinctively on the defensive. "Why," she almost gasped "what do you think ?" "Does it matter what I think?" "It does, to me: I wish to know!"
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