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I was drawing my arm from under him to do so, when I noticed that he ceased to resist. But the knife now caught my eye. It was red, blade and haft, and so was the hand that clasped it. As we fell I had accidentally held it point upward. My antagonist had fallen upon the blade! I now thought of my betrothed, and, untwining myself from the lithe and nerveless limbs of the savage, I rose to my feet.
"Ma foil!" exclaimed Mademoiselle. She seized an end of the boa and drew Gwendolyn to her knee. "You make ze head buzz. Come!" She reached for a book on the school-room table. "Attendez!" "Mademoiselle," persisted Gwendolyn, twining and untwining, "if I do my French fast will you tell me something? What does nouveaux riches mean?" "Nouveaux riches," said Mademoiselle, "is not on ziss page.
Startled by the crackle and thud of his approach the two young figures in the summer house jumped precipitously to their feet, and limply untwining their arms from each other's necks stood surveying the Senior Surgeon in unspeakable consternation, the White Linen Nurse and a blue overalled lad most unconscionably mated in radiant youth and agonized confusion.
She sighed in a resigned, weary way, untwining her arm from about Val Beverley, and falling back upon her pillows. "It is all written here," she said; "every word of it, my friends, and signed at the bottom. I am a murderess, but it was a merciful deed. You see, I had a plan of which Juan knew nothing. This was my plan." She pointed to the heap of manuscript.
I remember that the first number on the programme was Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. This work, as is well known, is rather long, and so, at the end of the third movement, I turned and looked at Barber to see if he was asleep. But his eyes were wide open, feverish, almost glaring; he was twining and untwining his fingers and muttering excitedly.
Infinitely pathetic, therefore, is the moment when we separate for ever. Caillaud was unsettled for an instant, and then, slowly untwining the embrace, he made a sign to Pauline, who took Zachariah's hand and led him outside; the heavy well-oiled bolt of the lock shooting back under the key with a smooth strong thud between them.
Arnold could never unclasp her arms from about the form of her daughter. "God will bring me safely back to you, dear mother," urged Agnes, gently untwining those loving arms; "Good-by." "Good-by, darling, good-by." It was over the parting was over Agnes was gone. Mrs. Arnold was alone for evermore in this life. Mrs.
Untwining his gold chain from his neck, Balafre twisted off, with his firm and strong set teeth, about four inches from the one end of it, and said to his attendant, "Here, Andrew, carry this to my gossip, jolly Father Boniface, the monk of St. Martin's; greet him well from me, by the same token that he could not say God save ye when we last parted at midnight.
The mist had now so far collapsed that the tips of the trees and bushes around his house could just be discerned, as if boring upwards through a vast white cobweb which cloaked them from the day. There was no doubt that her mind was inclined thitherward; indefinitely, fancifully twining and untwining about him as the single object within her horizon on which dreams might crystallize.
Insensible to all Marian's attempts to soothe and amuse her, she sat, with her neglected drawing pushed away on the table, her eyes resolutely cast down, her fingers twining and untwining themselves restlessly in her lap.
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