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Don't suppose it will hurt my vanity; but it will touch deeper things in me, and I shall never, never forget your kindness. I can by no possibility do more than I have done. Good-bye, dear Margaret; I am more than sorry that I have given you all this trouble." As Betty spoke she unclasped the little silver true-lover's knot from the bosom of her dress and put it into Margaret's hand.
In order that he might awaken early he did not close the shutters, but contented himself with bolting the door and placing on the table an unclasped and long-pointed knife, whose temper he well knew, and which was never absent from him. About seven in the morning Andrea was awakened by a ray of sunlight, which played, warm and brilliant, upon his face.
Musing on these strange things, she unclasped, scarcely conscious of the act, a gold necklace, which Huldbrand had lately purchased for her of a travelling trader; half dreamingly she drew it along the surface of the water, enjoying the light glimmer it cast upon the evening-tinted stream.
He lighted the big oil lamp and even offered to burn papers in the stove to "kill the chill," but the girls insisted they would be perfectly comfortable without the heat. "And Captain Dave, do you know about Kitty?" Grace plunged quickly as politeness would permit. "Know Kitty? Well, I should, seein' as how I unclasped her from her dead mother's arms," replied the seaman, almost reverently.
"Don't, Barbara. Give it up, girl. You can't stand this." Her hands unclasped. Her eyes grew normal. She relaxed, sighingly. I leaned closer while she whispered to me the last addition in that problem of two and two the full solution. Armed, I faced Vandeman once more.
He unclasped her hand from the knob, and, using more of his great strength than he knew, led her to a chair and brought another for himself. The touch of command in Dic's manner sent a strange thrill to the girl's heart, and she learned in one brief moment that all her sophistry had been in vain; that her love was not dead, and could not be killed.
A few strokes brought him to the shore, dragging his senseless burden with him. He unclasped the arms that held him so closely encircled, and laid the slender form of the youth he had almost died to save gently upon the grass. It was as if dead. He loosed the ribbon that was round the neck, he tore open the checked shirt
It's just some stupid hop-and-go-spring thing at the base of our brains that makes us jump at mice and rats." But the hands interlocking at her back twitched and clasped and unclasped in a way that showed the automatic brain-spring was still active. "It's getting worse every day. I can't stand it much longer, looking and looking till I'm half blind and no one but Indian riders all day long.
He went on in cold, deliberate accents. "You were unprepared for the strange compensation you have received? the sudden fame of your deserted daughter?" Her hands clasped and unclasped themselves nervously. "I knew nothing of it! Armitage is not an uncommon name, and I did not connect it with her. She has no right to wear it."
But the force of his disappointment and rage was something before which mere human horror was swept aside. With another rapid movement, he stooped over the bed and unclasped the thin gold chain that hung round the dead man's neck, letting the metal symbol and the long, thin key slip from it into his hand.
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