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He saw, too, man of the world as he was, that she was casting about in her mind for some way in which she could regain for herself her old position without too much humiliation. "Don't say another word, little woman," he said in his kindest tone. "You didn't mean a word of it; you haven't been well lately, and I oughtn't to have left you. Tighten up your reins; we'll drive on if you don't mind."

He tries to be flippant, as he has seen the officers of the great corporation flippant about such matters, but in spite of himself his heartstrings tighten. Harvey Trueman is acting a lie, and his heart knows it, though his brain has not yet found it out. The office door swings open. A man of fifty-five enters a short man with a stubby red beard, a round face, and hair well sprinkled with gray.

She was dancing suddenly with Gordon; one of his arms was around her; she felt it tighten spasmodically; felt his hand on her back with the fingers spread. Her hand holding the little lace handkerchief was crushed in his. "Why Gordon," she began breathlessly. "Hello, Edith." She slipped again was tossed forward by her recovery until her face touched the black cloth of his dinner coat.

Then they began to fight, and Jack was getting the worst of it. "Help, hound!" he cried out, then "Squeeze hair," cried out the old woman, and the rib of hair that was about the hound's neck squeezed him to death. "Help, horse!" Jack called out, then, "Squeeze hair," called out the old woman, and the rib of hair that was about the horse's neck began to tighten and squeeze him to death.

She saw, at once, all the advantages she would derive, personally, from the union of Therese and Laurent. The marriage would tighten the bonds already connecting her and her niece with the friend of her son, with that good-natured fellow who came to amuse them in the evening. In this manner, she would not be introducing a stranger into her home, she would not run the risk of unhappiness.

He sprang to her, caught her hands in his. For a moment, half frightened it seemed, she considered him. "Dick," I heard her whisper. "Dick come back safe to me!" I saw his arms close about her, hers tighten around his neck; black hair touched the silken brown curls, their lips met, clung. I turned away. In a little time he joined me; head down, silent, he strode along beside me, utterly dejected.

Must your dearest Annabel obey you about the chair, Miss Chantry?" "I said I would suggest that you sit on a chair by yourself." "I will, dear. You know I always follow your suggestions." I felt the hand that held mine tighten its grip in a despairing squeeze.

His boots seemed to shrivel up and tighten round his feet. "He's gone! No, he's not!" gasped some of the crowd, as the tall smoke and flame encompassed him, and he was seen for a moment to waver.

Georgia made Sevier a brigadier-general in her militia, for the district she claimed in the bend of the Tennessee; and her branch of the Society of the Cincinnati elected him to membership. In return Sevier, hoping to tighten the loosening bonds of his authority by a successful Indian war, entered into arrangements with Georgia for a combined campaign against the Creeks.

"Oh, but he was well called 'The Wonderful. I could see the heads of the tribesmen lifting like wolves taking a new scent, and mothers tighten their clutch on their children. Also I saw Opata. Him I watched, for he smelt of mischief. His water-basket was beside him, and as the people turned from baiting Taku-Wakin to believing him, I saw Opata push the bottle secretly with his spear-butt.