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The Greek put on the rich dress of a merchant captain of his own people, the black coat, thickly embroidered with gold, the breeches of dark blue cloth, the almost transparent linen shirt, open at the throat.
He was evidently undecided as regards his own course of proceeding, for his chin was pressed by thumb and forefinger hard into his throat, while his eyebrows were wrinkled up to their highest elevation.
For, if it came to that, any man might take the King by the throat, and make him cast away among the poor the money which he wanted sadly for Her Grace the Duchess, and the beautiful Countess, of this, and of that. Lizzie, of course, knew nothing about His Majesty's diversions, which were not fit for a young maid's thoughts; but I now put the form of the argument as it occurred to me.
"Now," said the soft voice of Barry, "we're equally armed. Down, Bart! "If you drop me, you can send your next shot into Bart. If I drop you, the teeth of Bart will be in your throat. Make your own terms; fight in the way you want; knives, if you like 'em better than guns, or " and here the yellow flamed terribly in Barry's eyes "bare hand to hand!"
Her throat swelled, her eyes filled with tears. She turned away her head, that he might not perceive her emotion, and opened the kitchen-door. "Come in, Claudet," said she, "we shall be more comfortable in the dining-room. We can talk there, and you will have some refreshment before you go, will you not?" He obeyed, and followed her into the house.
The recognition of my identity by a dog who whined and cowered, and then by a man, whose breath gurgled in his throat and whose skin turned white, are things that no man knows but me. I can see the Judge's face now. It looked upon me with the same accusing expression that I knew so well, and I slunk away believing that the worst had at last come.
The first one seemed in direct proximity to the hut; the last ones came faintly from the shore of the lake. When she saw the gun, Ann whitened to the ears, and the threat in Everett's eyes caused Lem to gurgle in his throat, as if he would speak but could not. "I told you," said Everett, with his lips close to Fledra's ear, "that I would use any means to get you.... Stand aside there you two!"
A dull, tawny devil, with a peculiar purplish sheen in some lights due to the longer hair on his short, hard coat, turning black on his throat, legs, and tail as if he had walked in black somewhere and finished off with patches of creamy white on head and ears.
I was watching, and caught the chance to wave my hand to her. "Come!" commanded mother, and we went back to where father was sitting. "What do you think!" said mother. "I found the child playing with one of the Bad Madigans. Isn't she a sight!" The lump in my throat swelled to a terrible size; something buzzed in my ears, and I heard some one weeping.
He lifted his hat once more and she flushed to her throat as she quickly drew back into the corner. How in the world could he have seen her through that abominable slit in the limousine? And why was he now grinning so broadly? Count Quinnox found him standing there a few minutes later, twirling his stick and smiling with his eyes.
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