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Celeste fairly exploded, and even La Catiche grinned broadly; while La Couteau caught up the child with her long claw-like hands and carried it away. Yet another gone, to be carted away yonder in one of those ever-recurring razzias which consigned the little babes to massacre! Mathieu alone had not laughed.
Betty saw his thin white hairs, his hard narrow face and tight mouth, the hands yellow and claw-like that gripped the thin vellum folio. "I suppose even he was young once," she said, "but I'm sure he doesn't remember it." He saw her go by, young and alert in the sunshine, and the May air stirred the curtains.
Toby's eyes with their dumb pleading were still anxiously raised to his. Saltash bent abruptly and put his hand very lightly over them. "All right. Don't hurt yourself!" he said kindly. "You're young enough to chuck the past and start again." Toby's claw-like hands came up and closed upon his wrist. "Wish I could, sir," he whispered with lips that quivered.
Framed in the circle of the port-hole were the head and shoulders of Tsang Foo. Not a muscle of the yellow face moved, not a tremor of the slanting eyelids showed surprise. The right hand, holding a bit of tow, mechanically continued polishing the brass around the port-hole, but the left long, thin, and with claw-like nails, shot stealthily forward and snatched the pistol.
I am told he burned very actively, and I believe it, for to my certain knowledge he was very dry, and not so green as some persons who had previously employed him affected to think. A cold chill came over me as my eye rested upon the horrid visitor and noted the greenish depths of his eyes and the claw-like formation of his fingers, and my flesh began to creep like an inch-worm.
Hope screamed, and out of the tail of my eye I saw both Vic and Hope struggling frantically to free themselves from an overwhelming number of guards. Vic tried to shout something, but a claw-like brown hand was immediately thrust over his mouth.
The man recoiled, bending his body and spreading his claw-like hands in a servile obeisance, quaint and not ungraceful; while he quavered out what was seemingly an explanation or apology in some jargon that was quite unintelligible to me, though I can speak most European languages. I judged it to be some Russian patois. I caught one word, a name that I knew, and interrupted his flow of eloquence.
But on this sunny morning the retired Professor of Edinburg University held sundry letters, dispatches, and legal papers clutched in his claw-like hands. His eye rested upon Justine Delande, in a semi-hostile glare, as he slowly said: "I've sent for ye, as in the place of your father's daughter, ye must know of the changes that come to us, with the chances of Life and the sair ways o' the world."
But his mind was far away with the gold-haired maiden in Hamilton's prison. He scarcely knew what he was saying. "Air ye expectin' to marry Alice Roussillon?" The three men were at the moment eating the well broiled venison. Oncle Jazon's puckered lips and chin were dripping with the fragrant grease and juice, which also flowed down his sinewy, claw-like fingers.
"Now," said Hugh, when his thirst was satisfied, "tell me, where is your master, Cattrina?" "God or the fiend can say alone. When he found that I was smitten with the plague he left me to perish, as did the others." "And as we shall do unless you tell me whither my enemy has gone," and Hugh made as though to leave the place. The priest clutched at him with his filthy, claw-like hand.
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