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Though frequently struck, we received less damage than I had anticipated, while we soon perceived that the ill-constructed walls of the castle and fortifications were crumbling away from the effect of our shot. Night coming on put an end to the attack, and we retired out of range of the enemy's guns. But our admiral had no intention of desisting.
"I am sorry," cried Jenks, desisting from further efforts, "that I have not recently read one of Bret Harte's novels, or I would speak to you in the language of the mining camp. But in plain Cockney, Miss Deane, we are on to a good thing if only we can keep it." They came back into the external glare. Iris was now so serious that she forgot to extinguish the little lamp.
He got out of the buggy and carefully scanned the ground, flashing the same electric torch which had played a part here once before; smiling, despite his soberness, when he came to a patch of violently torn up sod ten feet from the spot where, evidently, Jane's horse had fallen. Here, he knew, Mac had made his gallant stand, desisting only after his instinct told him Jane had fled to safety.
Over the thunderstorm of blows the cry of a sentinel was heard; it was followed by another; shouts ran along the battlements, shouts answered out of the wood. In the first moment of alarm it sounded as if the foresters were carrying the Moat House by assault. And Sir Daniel and his men, desisting instantly from their attack upon Dick's chamber, hurried to defend the walls.
Pickwick into hands across, when there was a general clapping of hands, and a cry of 'Stop, stop! 'What's the matter? said Mr. Pickwick, who was only brought to, by the fiddles and harp desisting, and could have been stopped by no other earthly power, if the house had been on fire. 'Where's Arabella Allen? cried a dozen voices. 'And Winkle?'added Mr. Tupman.
The task proved more difficult and of longer duration than he had anticipated; and before success rewarded his efforts his wife rejoined him, in tears. "Well," he said nervously, and without desisting a moment from his occupation, "how have you managed?" "Oh, Duncan!" sobbed Mrs Henderson, "it was dreadful!
"No; those wretches in uncle's stables did not half buckle the girth, and, as I was going in a hard gallop up the steep, it flew apart and gave me a tumble; that's all," said Cap, desisting a moment from her occupation to take breath. "You were not hurt?" inquired Craven, with deep interest in his tone.
Three times she tried to move him, so he might lie more easy, but his dead weight was too much, and desisting, she sat close and raised his head to let it rest against her. Thus she saw the blood that was running from in front of the shoulder also; but she said no more about fainting.
That was the process going on in poor Rosamond, while she arranged all objects around her with the same nicety as ever, only with more slowness or sat down to the piano, meaning to play, and then desisting, yet lingering on the music stool with her white fingers suspended on the wooden front, and looking before her in dreamy ennui.
And Arbaces felt the voice leave his lips, without an impulse of his own; and the voice asked: 'Who art thou, and what is thy task? 'I am That which thou hast acknowledged, answered, without desisting from its work, the mighty phantom. 'My name is NATURE! These are the wheels of the world, and my hand guides them for the life of all things.
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