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The silence grew painful; she moved uneasily under his direct gaze and a dash of color swept into her cheeks. Then he spoke quietly. "You been seeing white savages?" "Yes!" venomously. "Not around here?" The hateful mockery of that drawl! "I am talking to one," she said, her eyes blazing with impotent anger. "I thought you was meaning me," he said, without resentment.
Amyas answered this rhapsody, which would have been then both fashionable and sincere, by a loyal chuckle. Eustace smiled meekly, but answered somewhat venomously nevertheless "I, at least, am certain that I speak the truth, when I call my patroness a virgin undefiled." Both the brothers' brows clouded at once.
"He's been doing palmistry reading it. All about ... what's going to happen to me. Wasn't it, Alf!" Emmy disregarded her, watching Alf's too-transparent uneasiness. "You always were a little lying beast," she said, venomously. "A trickster." "You see?" Jenny said, defiantly to Alf. "What my own sister says?" "So you were. With your sailor.... And playing the fool with Alf!" Emmy's voice rose.
"'What are you going to do? I asked. "'Ring for my maid, said she. "'Don't, said I, getting between her and the bell. 'Think; stop, I implore you. This is our last chance for a reconciliation. "She stepped back with a cruel smile. She had a small penknife in her hand. Her eyes glittered venomously. "'Reconciliation, she said, with a sneer. 'I don't want it; I don't want you.
The last one of the Seven got it. Look how it happens with old man Loony Honeycutt, clucking and chuckling and stepping up and down in his shadow all the time; gone nuts from just smelling of it! Look what happens to me, all stove up here." He paused and then spat out venomously: "Oh, it'll get Swen Brodie and it'll get you, too, Mark King. You'll see." "Another drink before I go?" demanded King.
Three times our pistols spat venomously after the flying figure... then we had crossed the hall below and were in the wilderness of the night with the rain descending upon us in sheets. Vaguely I saw the white shirt-sleeves of the fugitive near the corner of the stone fence. A moment he hesitated, then darted away inland, not toward Saul, but toward the moor and the cup of the inland bay.
In 1911 the revolution was necessary the peril had to be incurred, because nothing but arms could move the existing despotism; but none of the pretended principles of the revolution can now justify that peril when the man attacked is the legal, constitutional, duly elected President, overwhelmingly chosen by the people, and venomously turned upon immediately following his election without being given even an approach to a fair chance to prove himself.
He thought of tramping, barefooted and bare-legged, through fifteen miles of sage-covered Badlands to camp, with the sun beating down on his unprotected back, and groaned in anticipation. Not even his pessimism had ever pictured a thing so terrible. He gazed at the gray-blue river which had caused this trouble that he must face, and forgetting the luxury of its coolness, cursed it venomously.
These are indeed snares and nets, yea, real fiery darts which are shot most venomously into the heart, not by flesh and blood, but by the devil.
Chavis had severed his connection with the Flying W. He had ridden in to the ranchhouse some weeks ago, found Ruth sitting on the porch, announced that he was "quittin'" and wanted his "time." She did not ask him why he wanted to quit so pleased was she with his decision, but he advanced an explanation while she counted the money due him. "Things don't suit me here," he said venomously.
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