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Stooping down, he loosened the stirrup-straps, bound his knees tightly to his saddle-flaps, twisted his hands in the bridle, and then, putting the gallant horse's head for the mountain path, he dashed the spurs in and fell forward fainting with his face buried in the coarse, black mane. Little could he ever remember of that wild ride.
"Cass, bring three men over here, and carry this officer to the same wagon you did the others," he commanded briefly. "Fix him comfortably, but be in a hurry about it." They lifted me in the blanket, one holding tightly at either corner, and bore me tenderly out into the night.
Keep your rifles ready for use; there is no saying but what some prowling Indian may not have caught sight of us as we came along." The boys unslung their rifles, which were strapped tightly to their backs they were already loaded and started up the valley. In a quarter of a mile they passed through the low wood which filled the bottom of the valley.
He believed the machinery was in some way so damaged by the crash that the front compartments failed to close tightly, although the rear ones were secure. Whiteman's manner of escape was unique. He was blown off the deck by the second of the two explosions of the boilers, and was in the water more than two hours before he was picked up by a raft.
She turned to the right and found that Droop had found a couch on the floor under the table and chairs at the rear of the room, also against the south wall. In the kitchen Rebecca had crouched down as she found herself forced outward, and she now sat dazed on the kitchen floor surrounded by the fragments of their breakfast all glued to the wall as tightly as herself.
She paid for it by the exposure it brought with it the danger that people would, as I had said to Mrs. Peck, enter into her affairs. She wore a blue veil drawn tightly over her face, so that if the smile with which she greeted me was dim I could account for it partly by that. 'Well, we are getting on we are getting on, I said, cheerfully, looking at the friendly, twinkling sea.
At the same time, four slaves, strong, muscular young men, were brought up, and when the posts were placed upright in the holes, a slave was made to descend into each of them, and as I looked in, I saw them clinging tightly round the posts.
The white thin hands were tightly held, one in her father's, the other in her mother's, as though they would detain her; but the angels heeded not and went on with the preparations for her flight. These were almost complete when I arrived; Issie alone knew that they were of God's providing, for the face she turned to me was full of childish sweetness, and her smile was touched with other light.
Griswold sent for him, you see I buried my fingers in HIS hair, so," and she was about to clutch her own golden locks when Edith shudderingly caught her hands and held them tightly lest they should harm the tresses she thought so beautiful. "Arthur cried," continued Nina "cried so hard that my brain grew cool at once. It's dreadful to see a man cry, Miggie a great, strong man like Arthur.
She turned slightly towards him, and became conscious at once of the fumes of wine and strong tobacco with which her son had made her only too familiar. She looked at him for a moment, then clasped her hands tightly together and resumed her former position, with her sad face turned to the window.
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