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When she had said this, Lucy swept out of the room, pale as a little fury, and feeling in her heart a savage female inclination to strike Jack Wentworth, who opened the door for her, with her little white clenched hand. Too much excited to remark whether her sister had followed her, Lucy ran up-stairs to her room, and there gave way to the inevitable tears.
"But, señor, Your Excellency, how did this Gringo devil, who was unarmed, take away your revolver and tie you?" Pasquale, teeth clenched, whirled upon him. "You dog of a peon let your prisoner walk away without a challenge and then dare to question me!" The old soldier's fist shot out like a pile-driver. The blow lifted the boy from his feet and flung him like a sack of meal against the wall.
Piet Vreiboom slunk a little back, his low brows working uneasily. Kelly swallowed an oath in his throat; his hands were clenched. But Kieff, in a voice smooth as oil, made ready, mocking answer. "Oh, not at you, madam! Heaven forbid! What could any man find to smile at in such a model of virtuous propriety as yourself?" He was baiting her openly, and she knew it.
"If it could only be altered! but it can't and the only thing to do is to give the money away to those who need it as quickly as possible " "Give it away!" answered Angus, bitterly "Good God! Why, to give away seven or eight millions of money in the right quarters would occupy one man's lifetime!" His voice was harsh, and his hand clenched itself involuntarily as he spoke.
"'Now, he says, more quiet than ever I can see him now, with his big eyes blazin' black out o' his white face and his little hands that seemed to me scarce more'n a baby's clenched tight at his side 'Now, I guess, I got to lick you! "An' he did!" "He beat him?" cried Mollie excitedly. "Oh, weren't you proud?" "I guess I was!" answered the little old woman, her eyes snapping with the memory.
Gently and without argument he alluded to the advantages of the English style in boxing, and showed himself a firm believer in Western institutions. The athlete's lips curled disdainfully, and without honouring his adversary with a formal denial, he exhibited, as if by accident, that peculiarly Russian object an enormous fist, clenched, muscular, and covered with red hairs!
Why did Bill Merrit's son die of the shakes in a saloon in Omaha? Why was Mr. Thomas's son, here, shot in a gambling-house? Why did young Adams burn his mill to beat the insurance companies and go to the pen?" The lawyer paused and unfolded his arms, laying one clenched fist quietly on the table. "I'll tell you why.
Of course, I thought the man had fallen in a fit. I rushed to him; he was lying, sort of crumpled up, where he had fallen. There was a street-lamp close by I saw that his face had turned a queer colour, and his eyes were already closed tightly. I noticed, too, that his teeth were clenched, and his fingers twisted into the palms of his hands."
Only a few of the prisoners had succeeded in controlling themselves; but they, too, shouted irritating words to their fellows, reviled the Egyptians in violent excitement, and shook their clenched fists at the disarmed foe. The fury with which the liberated serfs rushed upon their tormentors was as unprecedented as the cruelties they had suffered.
Guy was leaning one arm against the mantel-piece; the other was crossed over his chest: on that arm Flora was clinging, with both her hands clenched in the passion of her appeal. Her slight bonnet had fallen rather back, showing the masses of her glorious hair, and all her flushed cheeks, and her eyes that shone with a strange lustre, though there were tears still on their long, trailing lashes.
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