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She could not take her eyes from him. Something told her that he knew her secret, or part of it. Her heart was fluttering like a caged thrush. "Shall we begin at the beginning?" "If you like." "Or in the middle, say." "If only you'll begin anywhere," she said impatiently. "How will this do for a beginning, then?
There was a "boudoir" in the house which had a large, pleasant window, and was therefore thought to be agreeable enough to be used as a prison-house for Una and Julian when they were naughty. Julian conveyed his father into the boudoir, and shut the door on him adroitly. It had no handle on the inner side, purposely, and the astonished parent was caged.
"Sulking over the knife still, I imagine," sneered Parton; and then he and I retired to our room and prepared for bed. I do not suppose I had slept for more than an hour when I was awakened by Parton, who was pacing the floor like a caged tiger, his eyes all ablaze, and laboring under an intense nervous excitement. "What's the matter, Jack?" I asked, sitting up in bed.
"Oh, to think that you had that wolf caged and turned him loose again to prey on England and on us!" "I did but show mercy to the fallen, Nurse." "Mercy? I call it madness. Why, when Jeffrey and Thomas heard of it I thought they would burst with rage, especially Jeffrey, who loved your father well and loved not the infidel galleys," answered the fierce Emlyn.
Cadman was watching his hands. "You've got it, son," he said. "Got what?" "The good grey nerve. . . . Not a flicker in your hand. I wanted to know. . . . Say, cheer up " Skag was looking toward the tiger trap. "Ah, I see," said Cadman Sahib. "The circus is a hard life," Skag said. That was a kind of a feast day. . . . At noon the natives had the tiger up in sunlight, caged in bamboo.
I returned the greeting hilariously, upon which one of the British prisoners, who was remarkably agile, swarmed the bars, and poised thus above his comrades, was emulating the strange and amusing antics of a monkey at the Zoological Gardens, thereby conveying by his actions that he and his friends were caged after the manner of our simian prizes at home.
The head and support of a large family, he was almost penniless; if he should follow his convictions, he and they might be altogether so. In the period of choice and requiring room for experiment, he saw himself doomed to a fixed, inglorious career, and caged in a framework of unpropitious circumstance.
When bodily ailments held Stevenson as a captive in bonds, his keen sight pierced through the obstructions which held him caged. We are not left in doubt, when we read his books, as to whether his gaze was earthwards or to heaven's distant lamps.
He hath ordered thee to be caged; and caged thou art, and I am thy keeper. Thou canst not have air and liberty; but thou mayst have what are much better things food and wine. 'Proh Jupiter! cried the girl, wringing her hands; 'and why am I thus imprisoned? What can the great Arbaces want with so poor a thing as I am?
Gloom was the first impression; cold was the second. There, then, the prisoner found himself, alone, chilled, in this semi-darkness, being able to walk up and down the space of eight square feet like a caged wolf, or to remain seated on his chair like an idiot at Bicêtre.
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