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I have only to open my arms and they flutter into them, and not to close them tight that, Margery, is too much to look for; yet is there but one true bliss, and but one Ann, and the best of all joys is to clasp her to my heart and kiss her lips. I will keep faith with her; I will have nought to say to the rest. But how shall I keep them away from me?
Closer and closer grew the fearful Python's constricting clasp, . . nearer and nearer swept the dancing battalion of destroying flames! ... For one fleeting breath of time Theos stared aghast at the horrid scene, . . then making a superhuman effort he raised Sah-luma's corpse entirely from the ground and staggered with his burden away, . . away from the burning Shrine, . . the funeral pyre, as it vaguely seemed to him, of a wasted Love and a dead passion!
And to clasp her knees, laying his head on her lap, and penetrate her in silence with the conviction that they belonged together in a manner that turned all the sensible things she said into folly, could not be done outside the world of dreams and fancies. He jumped to his feet. "I meant, you know, let's go back to Florence. I'm afraid it's high time.
You can also remember that there are people in the world, perhaps born a little lower than yourself, who love you and care for you." "Oh, you are good!" cried Pauline. "I will never forsake you, Nancy, or think myself better than you are." "Didn't I say she was a brick?" said Nancy. "Stoop your head, queen; I will clasp the necklace around your neck."
He returned the pressure of her clasp, and then the masculine dislike for effusiveness asserted itself. "I'm afraid I'm weaker than I thought," he said shamefacedly. "I'm almost hysterical." She glanced at him shrewdly, and smiling, rose. "For all that," she returned, "you are to get up. Dr. Murray says that it will be better, and you would get hopelessly tired of bed before to- morrow morning.
"For my sake," she pleaded, catching at my arm, and at that moment I heard a door slam underneath and heavy footsteps begin slowly to ascend the stairs. "No, madame," I answered, trying to release my arm from her clasp. Her face was full of fear, and I knew it was fear of the man below, not me. "Then for the sake of our love, Paul!" she gasped. I suffered her to lead me back into the room.
I know how you feel toward these good people, and your care for them shall be my care." Once more Telly hid her face behind her hands, the better to think, perhaps, or to hide rebellious tears. And now she felt herself gathered within strong arms and a hand making both hers prisoners, and as she yielded a little to his clasp he whispered: "Do not say 'no' again, Telly!
If this man is the murderer, I would say, from what we know of him, that he cannot rid himself of the feeling that the blood of his victim is still under his nails. And so, nursing that delusion, he goes daily to that manicure girl " He got no farther along than that. Mr. Cassidy extended his large right hand in a congratulatory clasp, and admiration was writ large upon his face.
So when our officer led the others out I stayed behind. A clear ray of late sunshine slanted through a broken window set high in a side wall, to stream full upon the face of the Virgin. Someone had crowned her with a wreath of fresh flowers, and had thrust a few white roses under the folded hands which seemed to clasp them lovingly, with a prayer for the peace of the world.
You are the nearest thing to Norah that there is in this whole German town, and goodness knows you're far from Irish." He came. The weather had turned suddenly cold and he was wearing a fur-lined coat with a collar of fur. He looked most amazingly handsome and blond and splendidly healthy. The clasp of his hands was just as big and sure as ever.
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