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Tolerant of errors, which she lamented, and violences in which she had no share, she had a touch of their common family pride, most conspicuous in an almost cat-like clinging to their ancestral home.
The duke actually endeavored to read the gray-blue eyes of Marianne; but so strange a flash darted from them, that he recoiled, withdrawing his hands from the pressure of those fingers. "Come, come!" she said, "I see that my cat-like eyes still make you afraid. Are they, then, very dreadful?" She changed their expression to one of sweetness, humility, timidity and winsomeness.
He darted in again, in his quick, cat-like way, and received a blow that dazed him. This time he held to his feet. "Bah, this is like striking a baby!" exclaimed Dixon. "What are you fighting about, Gravois? Is it a crime up here to kiss a pretty girl?" "I am going to kill you!" said Jean as coolly as before. There was something terribly calm and decisive in his voice. He was not excited.
His master gave him his head, and, with eyes to the ground, the sure-footed beast moved along with almost cat-like certainty. At last the soft soil of the valley was reached again, and once more the deepening woods swallowed them up. The end of Buck's journey lay across Yellow Creek, where a few miserable hovels sheltered a small community of starving gold-seekers, and thither he now hastened.
The world stands reversed, and, taking for granted his own uprightness, the stranger unhesitatingly imputes to them an obliquity of vision, a state of mind outwardly typified by the cat-like obliqueness of their eyes. If the inversion be not precisely of the kind he expected, it is none the less striking, and impressibly more real.
It was a cat-like advance, slow and wary. He wondered if the creature could see him there in the dark, wondered if he were a fool to remain but decided to do so and take his chances. Max Wyndham's belief in his own particular lucky star was profound. Nearer and nearer drew the unseen one, came close to him, seemed to pause, and passed. Max was holding his breath. His hands were clenched.
"There seems to be somebody moving below; and if the skipper sees you, you're done. He's a regular Tartar, and he's got a brother what's a sergeant-major in the army. He'd give you up d'rectly if he spotted you." "I'm off," said Smith; and with long, cat-like strides he disappeared swiftly below.
"You are right, Jacques," said the frenzied cripple. "We Frochards come of a race that kills!" The adversaries feinted around each other in circles, in the Latin mode of fighting that was their heritage. Coats or sidesteps parried or evaded blows. The knives gleamed, but did not go quickly home. If Jacques had the superior strength, Pierre was the more cat-like.
For a moment the mother of heroes felt, or pretended to feel, mere boredom; but as the Master turned away to look at some distant object a diplomatic move upon his part this Tara smiled broadly, stretched out her fore-legs on the ground, exactly as a cat will when about to play, and, again in cat-like fashion, began to spring about, around, and over the half-fearful but wholly delighted puppies.
This combined suggestion of the rabbit and the tiger was peculiarly daunting in its effect. The strange beast's head was round and cat-like, but with high, tufted ears, and a curious, back-brushed muffle of whiskers under the throat. Its eyes, wide and pale, shone with a cold ferocity and unconquerable wildness.
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