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The girl looked from the aviator to Lanyard, then turned away from both and, trembling with fatigue and enforcing self-control by clenching her hands, stared aimlessly off into the mist. Painfully, Lanyard set himself to consider their position. The Parrott had come to rest in what seemed to be a wide, shallow, saucer-like depression, whose irregular bounds were cloaked in fog.
Yet, how dreadful to be told such things of his own father! Clenching her lips, she nodded. Soames spoke in a rapid, even voice: "He has always been a burden round your mother's neck. She has paid his debts over and over again; he has often been drunk, abused and threatened her; and now he is gone to Buenos Aires with a dancer."
Almost dead ahead was a big berg. He quickly shut off the engine, and narrowly avoided a collision. Then happening to glance back he saw, standing near the companionway leading down into the man-hole a ghostly white shape. "I'll find out what you are this time, or go overboard with you," said Jack to himself, clenching his teeth.
"He 'most keel Applegate," said the Mexican. "Aw, it's easy!" said Pringle eagerly. "There ain't one man in a thousand knows how to fight. It ain't cussin' and gritting your teeth, and swellin' up your biceps and clenching your fists up tight that does the trick. You want to hit like there wasn't anybody there. I'll show you sometime."
Once, when his eyelids sank heavily and closed, and the platter rested on his lap, and his right hand, still clenching the savoury bone, fell powerless at his side Ringwood, in his hard breathing, chanced to snuff up some ashes that caused him to sneeze.
For the time being she seemed hardly of a mind to. She sat staring at the kitchen clock on the wall in front of her, the only sign of any break in the funereal march of her thoughts being an occasional deep-drawn breath, or a shudder, or a clenching of the hands, or a bitter smile of irony.
"Secure me! secure Jeremiah Desborough?" exclaimed the settler, with rage manifest in the clenching of his teeth and the tension of every muscle of his iron frame, "and that for jist tryin' to save a countryman well, we'll see who'll have the best of it."
"Stop," cried Charlie, "let mother put her arm round my neck so, and Es, you hold the good hand. Now then, I'm all right fire away!" and clenching his lips hard, he waited for the doctor to commence the operation of setting his arm.
"That's what I'll do, and " clenching his fists "he'll be lucky if he escapes." "You ought to give him a lesson which he won't forget soon." "I ought to, still, when one comes to think of it, he might have me flung in prison for assault." "You wait till he is alone, then you can settle him." "If I were sentenced to a term of imprisonment, my reputation would be ruined.
"No," I replied, wondering at his manner more and more. "I only know him, as you do, to be a poet." "Poet, madman, or lover all three should be one and the same thing," muttered the Prince, clenching and unclenching that strong right hand of his on which sparkled a diamond like a star.
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