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Updated: August 31, 2025
"At night then I could get round him," said Slone, thinking hard and narrowing his gaze to scan the circle of wall and slope. "Why not? . . . No wind at night. That grass would burn slow till mornin' till the wind came up an' it's been west for days." Suddenly Slone began to pound the patient Nagger and to cry out to him in wild exultance. "Old horse, we've got him! We've got him!
Hardly had I reached it before Rador came hurrying up, in his manner a curious exultance mingled with what in anyone else I would have called a decided nervousness. "Come!" he commanded before I could speak. "The Council has made decision and Larree is awaiting you." "What has been decided?" I panted as we sped along the mosaic path that led to the house of Yolara. "And why is Larry awaiting me?"
He watched her now with a thrill of satisfaction with that suppressed exultance of a gambler holding a winning card. "There there," he said affectionately, smoothing with comforting little pats her trembling fingers.
From this center issues the violent little pride and lustiness which kicks with glee, or crows with tiny exultance in its own being, or which claws the breast with a savage little rapacity, and an incipient masterfulness of which every mother is aware.
Hollister heard her at the piano as he walked away, thundering out the rollicking air of the "Soldier's Chorus", its naive exultance of victory, it seemed to Hollister, expressing well her mood, a victory that might mean for him an abyss of sorrow and loneliness out of which he might never lift himself.
At once the melancholy in Lad's deep eyes gave place to puppy-like exultance. While, naturally, he did not understand one word in ten of the Master's frequent prosy homilies to him, or of the Mistress's more melodious speech, yet, from puppyhood, he had been talked to by both of them.
Tell me, when did you love me first?" She raised her hand to hide a tide of color. "Monsieur, it is my shame," she cried, with a little half sob of exultance. "It is my shame, but I will tell you. The night the night that we were married, I lay awake for hours beset by jealousy of the woman of the miniature. Oh, I am indeed shamed! But how could I help it?
He stood still a long while, surveying the hill-side. In his eyes was a curiosity, new-aroused and burning. There was an exultance about his bearing and a keenness like that of a hunting animal catching the fresh scent of game. He moved down the stream a few steps and took a second panful of dirt.
He could hardly exaggerate the peril he had incurred, and the touch of exultance with which he described his defeat of the murderer was quite pardonable in a tenderfoot. "Strange mighty strange. Can't understand it," commented the cowman when Ashton had finished his account. "It shore is, Mr. Knowles," added Gowan. "The only thirty-eight on the ranch is mine. That seems to clear our people."
An' how you goin' mak' big success? By Gar! I keeck you out dis cabin if you keep her waitin' some more!" With a cry, half of trepidation, half of exultance, Phillips crushed his cap upon his head. "I I've a notion to. I can ALMOST say it; anyhow, I can say enough so she'll understand. Gad! I will! I just needed you to stiffen me up."
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