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"I know it, I know it," she admitted, chokingly, wiping her eyes with a soaked handkerchief. "I shan't, Rachel, only this once, I promise you. You see I can't. I just can't on Zelotes's account. I've got to bear up for his sake." The housekeeper was surprised and a little indignant. "For his sake!" she repeated. "For mercy sakes why for his sake? Is it any worse for him than 'tis for you."
The smoke was unusually persistent to-night. He tossed in his bunk, and buried his face in the blanket that answered for a pillow. The smoke reached him even there, and he sneezed chokingly. In that instant the girl's face disappeared. He sneezed again and awoke. A startled gasp broke from his lips, and the handcuffs about his wrists clanked as he raised his hands to his face.
It reminds me " And then the colonel broke down with a great sob, and a dash of his sleeve across his eyes, and recovered himself, and cried out, chokingly, "No, I'll be damned if it reminds me of anything I've ever seen or heard of, for I've never seen a man like you, Eben!"
"'You love Axel Larson! I cried chokingly, as I thought of all the insults he had heaped upon her in her presence, all the sneers and vile jocosities of which she had been the butt behind her back, in return for the care she had lavished upon his comfort, for her pinching to make both ends meet without the money he should have contributed. "She did not reply.
After a long, long time, she took a slow, sinuous step toward him then another.... He stepped back, still looking at her, his eyes still on hers.... He was back to the great cliff the sheer cliff at the base of which the huge seas ever beat in sullen, unceasing impotence.... Yet, another step she took, toward him.... His breath came chokingly, gaspingly.
"Livery weather," the doctor called it, putting down his existing lapse from philosophic tolerance to insufficient secretions of the biliary duct. Before him stood Clara sometime Dickie Calmady's devoted nurse and playfellow her eyes very bright and moist, the reds and whites of her fresh complexion in lamentable disarray. "I'd never have believed it of Sir Richard," she assented, chokingly.
"I'll take nothing back!" sneered the other boy. "Then you'll take this!" retorted Dick, very quietly, in a cold, low voice. Prescott's fist flew out. It was not a hard blow, but it landed on the tip of Bert Dodge's nose. "You cur!" cried Dodge chokingly. "Wait until I get my coat off." "No; keep it on; I'm going to keep mine on," retorted Prescott. "Guard yourself, man!" "Jump in, Bayliss!
And I'll get 'em to take me in and send a tel'gram to Daddy and Mother to come save me. To the astonishment of both his hearers, Cyril broke off chokingly in his yelled tirade; caught up a bibelot from the table, hurled it with all his puny force at Lad, the innocent cause of the fracas; and then rushed from the room and from the house.
There was no embarrassment certainly about his hunger, nor any affectation at all connected with his thirst. Chokingly from the battered silver cup he gulped down the scorching vodka. Ravenously he attacked the salty meat, the sweet, cloying dates. Watching him solemn-eyed above her own intermittent nibbles, the girl spoke out quite simply the thought that was uppermost in her mind.
"Nobody thinks of me," she would say, chokingly; "nobody cares for me; nobody seems to imagine that I've got a heart, too!"
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