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And, save for the far shriek of trains, the less remote and more frequent clanging of passing tramcars along the road edged with the skeleton cottages, and, startlingly near, the vain munching and dull footfall of the old horse, all was still. Compared with home and Budge Street, it was the reposeful quiet of the tomb.
In vain: I cannot budge either hand or arm. Not a finger can I move; and I am forced to remain in horrid doubt as to whether the hair be still upon my head with more than a probability that it is gone! But how am I confined? and where? I am fast bound to something: every joint in my body is fixed and immobile, as if turned to stone!
And here's a glass of port wine, and you've got to drink it without a whimper. Mind what I told you; you don't budge a step to-morrow unless you eat a hearty supper to-night." "You are very good to me," Mrs. Denover repeated. "What would have become of me but for you?" She strove to eat and drink to please him and to sustain her feeble strength, but every morsel seemed to choke her.
The huge strength of Quade sufficed to budge the writhing mustang. Lowrie and Sandersen drew Sinclair's pinioned right leg clear and stretched him on the sand. It was Lowrie who shot the horse. "You've done a brown turn," said Sandersen fiercely to the prostrate figure of Sinclair. "Four men and three hosses. A fine partner you are, Sinclair!" "Shut up," said Hal.
I'm not asking you questions, so please don't shoot, but if you told me the truth, and you belong in the North, you're going back with me or I'm not going. I'll not budge an inch." She drew a deep breath, as if something had greatly relieved her. Again her violet eyes came out from the shadow into sunlight, and her trembling mouth suddenly broke into a smile. It was not apologetic.
Budge, her gray hair brushed back tighter than ever, donned her black silk which she had not worn since young Christopher's eighteenth birthday and took her place at the head of the line just a foot or two behind Harkness who, of course, had the honor of opening the door. Mrs. Budge, however, watched the service door at the end of the long hall with fretful eyes.
I had no control over it whatever. When it began to rain, which it did that season every alternate five minutes, I used to try and get the machine to open, but it would not budge; and then I used to stand and struggle with the wretched thing, and shake it, and swear at it, while the rain poured down in torrents.
"Not now," answered the Traveller; then, turning round to Dealtry, he said: "Are you landlord here?" "At your service," said Peter, with the indifference of a man well to do, and not ambitious of halfpence. "Come, then, quick budge," said the Traveller, tapping him on the back: "bring more glasses another jug of the October; and any thing or every thing your larder is able to produce d'ye hear?"
But when he was young, he could, and frequently did, whip twice his weight in bear-cats. Old as he is to-day, he's as sound as a man of forty; he wouldn't budge an inch for man or devil." Mrs. Daney carefully folded the Churchman, laid it aside, and placed her spectacles with it.
Said the house mistress, "Thy tale is indeed a rare; so rub thy head and wend thy ways;" but he replied, "I will not budge till I hear my companions' stories." Then came forward the third Kalandar, and said, "O illustrious lady! my history is not like that of these my comrades, but more wondrous and far more marvellous.
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