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His light eyes held contempt. "Oh, I know that," he said, and there was in his slow voice a note of bitter humour that cut like a whip. "You are never in earnest. You were always the sort to make sport for yourself out of suffering, and then to toss the dregs of your amusement to those who are not sportsmen." Eustace was as white as he was himself. He held him in a grip of iron.
It smote his soul like a whip. Why should they not say it anyhow of the half-read country girl whom he slipped around by back roads to meet at night? Heretofore, he had been more the adventurer than criminal, but now he felt the brand of both.
If she should open up to you, maybe you'd see your way to say something kind of quieting." "But what's she got to worry about?" "That's what I say," said Mr. Hornblower, gesturing with his whip. "We're comf'table and prosperous, ain't we? Maybe there's a way to get more. I don't say there ain't. But what's the use of more, when you've got enough?
A swollen vein on the young nobleman's forehead went to confirm the idea at the Wythans' that he was capable of mischief. They were right; he was as capable of villany as of nobility. But he happened to be thanking Gower Woodseer's whip for the comfortable numbness he felt at Carinthia's behaviour, while detesting her for causing him to desire it and endure it, and exonerate his prosy castigator.
She thinks, if she could once marry him to the right wife, she and the wife between them could get the whip hand of him." "Does she care for him?" said Meadows, bluntly. Miss Field considered the question, and for the first time Meadows perceived a grain of seriousness in her expression. But she emerged from her meditations, smiling as usual. "She'd be hard hit if anything very bad happened!"
He received the whip from the hands of the soldier and he now advanced towards Bellecour, unwinding the lash as he came. Ombreval barred his way with an oath. "By Heaven: you shall not!" he cried. "Shall not?" echoed La Boulaye, his lips curling. "You had best stand aside you that are steeped in musk and fierceness."
He was tied on a colt of two years old, but managed the reins as if by instinct, and plied the whip with true Indian prodigality. Mr. Hunt inquired the age of this infant jockey, and was answered that "he had seen two winters."
"Get in, and let us hurry. Then you can explain." "All ready, Bill. Send 'em along," called Dale. He had to stoop to enter the stage, and, once in, he appeared to fill that side upon which he sat. Then the driver cracked his whip; the stage lurched and began to roll; the motley crowd was left behind.
By the time this cautious search is over, a stout iron-bound bucket, precisely like a well-bucket, has been attached to one end of the whip; while the other end, being stretched across the deck, is there held by two or three alert hands. These last now hoist the bucket within grasp of the Indian, to whom another person has reached up a very long pole.
'Well, said I, 'that debt's paid; but there's one debt we can never pay as long as we live. 'I know it, says she; 'but Dr. Singletary wants no better reward for his kindness than to see us live happily together, and do for others what he has done for us." "Pshaw!" said the Doctor, catching up his reins and whip. "You owe me nothing. But I must not forget my errand.
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