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A thousand yearnings, inexplicable, hitherto unknown, deep mysteries of her soul, looked out of those great eyes. "Don't think," he said tensely, "that I was deceived. I saw the trick with the rose! You are as guilty as your villainous lover! Murderess!" He went out and closed the door.
Yu're a sneakin', thievin' liar, like all Gentiles. Yu're both o' yu liars. What's she?" And he spoke it, raving with insult. "But I'll tame her. She'll be snatched from yu an' yore kind. We'll settle naow. Yu're a liar, I say. Yu gonna draw on me? Draw, yu Gentile dog; for if I lay hands on yu once " "Look out!" she gasped tensely. But she had spoken late.
There was a strange, set look on his face the look of a man whose back is against the wall. Ten down on the morning's round, he had drawn on his reserves of courage and was determined to meet the inevitable bravely. Vincent Jopp nodded absently, then turned to me. "Keep those women away from me," he whispered tensely. "They'll put me off my stroke!" "Put you off your stroke!"
But aren't you wasting a good deal of time! These papers have all got to be picked up, you know; and the camp nicely policed. Get busy." Higham glowered on him in murderous hate; then at the tensely watching dog. Lad's upper lip curled. The man took a tentative step toward the beach. Lad crouched, panther-like; and a low growl parted still further his writhing lips.
The good of others is our true good; work for others; not for your salvation, but the salvation of the world." The audience gave a low uneasy groan and the minister in whose pulpit the stranger preached stirred uneasily. But he went on tensely, with flying words: "Unselfishness is sacrifice Jesus was supreme sacrifice." Sacrifice.
Five minutes after leaving the trail he caught his first glimpse of smoke and began to edge in toward the fire. The stillness oppressed him. He drew nearer and nearer, yet he heard no sound of voice or of the dogs. At last he reached a point where he could look out from behind a young ground spruce and see the fire. It was not more than thirty feet away. He held his breath tensely at what he saw.
For a long eternity it seemed that, strive as she would, she could not conquer herself. Then she sat erect; the victory was won. "I cannot; I cannot," she replied tensely, the last modicum of will summoned to resist what he sought and she desired. "The King" she began, bethinking her of her reason; "you know that he is not always prudent. Mine is a hot-headed though loyal people.
But Gustaf crawled up behind the box and peeped. And he saw what they did, and then he told us." "What did they do," asked Keith tensely, forgetting his usual reserve. "Oh, you know," replied Johan teasingly. "I don't," said Keith stoutly, realizing that it was a dreadful admission of inferiority. "And I want you to tell me." For a moment Johan hesitated.
They must be held tightly. When tensely enough constricted, of fire and smoke there is little, but at intervals out there pops an exceedingly luminous ball of flame. My Mary kept the pressure of pride upon her throat. There was no dribble of emotion. Only the facts popped out hard and dry, and to Miss Ram intensely illuminative. Mary did not mention George's name.
"Then don't think of it again, my ferocious, terrible Chancellor," she laughed a little but I knew, with a sob tearing at my throat, that her playful mood, intended as a tonic for my nerves, was the bravest thing she had yet done. "Look, Jack! They're doing something!" "They're spreading out," I said, tensely. Her excitement suddenly died.
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