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He even had the impression that she was watching him while he slept, and sometimes he dreamed that she was fanged and clawed like a tigress. Langlade went away once, being gone a long time, and while he was absent the Dove redoubled her watchfulness. Robert's singular impression that her eyes were always on him was strengthened, and these eyes were increased to the hundred of Argus and more.
All the while I had been speaking, she had sat gazing silently into the bushes, but it seemed to me incredible that she should not now turn on me like a tigress, according to specifications. It beat me why she hadn't done it already.
'On the way downstairs, when Cecile was in front of us, I spoke my mind about this performance in the strongest way. But Louie only laughed at me. "It shall be quite plain that she is mine and not his! I don't run away from him; I keep him from dying on the streets like a dog; but his child and everyone else shall know what he is." 'It is a tigress passion.
I peer forward into the obscurity. My syce pats, and speaks soothingly to the trembling horse, while my peon with excited fingers fumbles at the straps of my gun-case. For a moment all is intensely still. I whisper to the boatmen to push out a little into the stream. Again the tigress calls, this time so close to us that we could almost fancy we could feel her breath. My gun is ready.
The girl's eyes rested on her mother's face, then went in swift appeal to her father's. Their consternation was too obvious to be ignored. "I wore my new dress home," she remarked casually. Then with sudden recklessness: "Do you like it?" "It's it's absurd," pronounced Annabel almost with a snarl. So a mother tigress might have corrected her offspring.
'Without our end? Coward! I'll speak to him. My own Alroy, sweetly whispered the Princess, as she advanced before him. 'What, has the fox left the tigress! Is't so, eh? Are there no judgments? Are the innocent only haunted? I am innocent! I did not strangle thee! He said rightly, "Beware, beware! they who did this may do even feller deeds." And here they are quick at their damned work.
The arms, body, paws, head, skull, claws, teeth, &c., of the female, are smaller. The tail of tigress longer; hind legs more lanky; the prints look smaller and more contracted, and the toes nearer together. It is said that though a large tiger may venture to attack a buffalo, the tigress refrains from doing so, but I have found this otherwise in my experience.
I've loved it minute by minute, and you've been well, I can't think in words, when it comes to that." The big fellow drowsed in the firelight, his four paws stretched evenly toward the man. In the morning and afternoon of the next two days Skag brought water to the tigress and bathed her shoulder long.
A brief scrutiny of the ground showed her the tracks of moccasins, and following them she soon ascertained that her children had been carried away by two Indians. Like the tigress robbed of her young, she followed the trail swiftly but cautiously and soon came up with the savages, whose speed had been retarded by the children.
"Aisy," said the others; "let them alone a little thing will do it now it's almost over she has given him his gruel an' divil's cure to him he knew well enough what she could do but he would have it." Faint convulsive movements were all now that could be noticed in the huge limbs of their brother, and still the savage tigress was at his throat, when her husband at length said:
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