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The neighbourhood was a dreary one at that time; as oppressive, sad, and solitary by night, as any about London. There were neither wharves nor houses on the melancholy waste of road near the great blank Prison. A sluggish ditch deposited its mud at the prison walls. Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity.
His voice, blank and forced as though he were talking through hard-set teeth, seemed to flow away on all sides into the darkness, deepening again upon the sea. "I had the wheel relieved. Hackett began to sing out that he was done. He's lying in there alongside the steering-gear with a face like death. At first I couldn't get anybody to crawl out and relieve the poor devil.
In his bedroom, though excitement banished sleep in spite of the lateness of the hour, he was too exhausted to make any effective attempt to reduce the confusion of his mind to order. For the first time in his life the diary-page for the day remained blank. For a long time he sat before it with his pencil then sighed and put it away.
Her heart bled for her boy, and she was ready to cry aloud, "Must that woman always be the destroyer of my sons' peace?" When Frank returned, it was with a face that appalled her by its blank despair, as he again flung himself down beside her. "She is gone," he said. "Gone!" "Gone, and with the Strangeways. I saw her." "Spoke to her?" "Oh no. The carriage turned the corner as I crossed the road.
For in all that room always excepting the photograph of James Allerdyke there was not a single object, a scrap of paper, anything whatever, which connected the Miss Slade of the Pompadour with the Mrs. Marlow of Fullaway's or bore reference to the matter in hand. The searchers finally retired utterly baffled. "Drawn blank," murmured the chief good-humouredly. He turned to the lookers-on.
Without waiting to rise he whipped a revolver from his pocket, firing point blank at the great mountain of muscle towering before him; but, quick as he was, John Clayton was almost as quick, so that the bullet which was intended for the sailor's heart lodged in the sailor's leg instead, for Lord Greystoke had struck down the captain's arm as he had seen the weapon flash in the sun.
Surely, if the goddesses decide among themselves the question of the golden apple, Paris himself must vacate the judgment-seat. Gentlemen, your hearts, I doubt not, have already bid you, as my unworthy lips do now, to drink 'The Rose of Torridge." If the Rose of Torridge herself had walked into the room, she could hardly have caused more blank astonishment than Frank's bold speech.
Blank your cursed soul for a liar!" cried Carroll, in a tone of agony. "Man, man!" said Shock, in a stern, solemn voice, "would you provoke the Almighty to anger with your oaths? You ought rather to beseech His mercy for your own soul. Why should He give your child to the care of such a man as you? Give me the lad."
The dice rolled on the table. "Ace and three." "It's my turn now. Six and five." "Pass it over. Five and two." "We're equal. Four and two." "Now let me. Ace and blank." "Double six." "You have won." "And I'm off at once," said Jeannin, rising, and muffling himself in his mantle, "It's now half-past seven. We shall see each other again at eight, so I won't say good-bye." "Good luck to you!"
He sat down by the oak tree, in the sun; square and upright, with one hand stretched out, resting on the nob of his cane, the other planted on his knee; his fur coat thrown open, his hat, roofing with its flat top the pale square of his face; his stare, very blank, fixed on the landscape. He nodded to them as they went off down through the fields.
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