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Being very anxious to preserve his skin entire, and not wishing to have recourse to my rifle, I cut a stout and tough stick about eight feet long, and having lightened myself of my shooting-belt, I commenced the attack. Seizing him by the tail, I tried to get him out of his place of refuge; but I hauled in vain; he only drew his large folds firmer together; I could not move him.
And as Panine in a firmer voice answered again, "Yes!" the young girl took two rapid steps and brought her flushed face close to him. "And I, then?" she cried with a violence she could no longer restrain. Serge made a sign. The drawing-room window was still open, and from outside they could be heard. "Jeanne, in mercy calm yourself," replied he. "You are in a state of excitement."
He was conscious of a curious thrill and a certain stirring of his blood, but this, he decided, must be sternly ignored. His task was not an easy one, and he stumbled once or twice, but he accomplished it and set the girl down safely on firmer ground. "Now," he said, "there's only the drop to the dale, but we must endeavor to keep out of the beck."
He persisted in sifting the steward's statement, with the conviction growing firmer and firmer in his mind that the statement was a lie, and that his wife was concerned in it. "Is the major in Norfolk?" he asked, "or is he near his daughter in London?" "In Norfolk," said Mr. Bashwood.
"There's nothing to thank me for, Monsieur: it is I, rather " M. Riviere broke off, as if speech for him too were difficult. "I should like, though," he continued in a firmer voice, "to add one thing. You asked me if I was in Count Olenski's employ.
Esther's a lady." "Ladies are just like anybody else," said Lydia sulkily. She thought she might have to consider that when she was alone, but at this moment the world was against her and she had to catch up the first generality she could find. "And for a necklace to be so valuable," said Anne, "valuable enough for Jeff to risk everything he had to try to pay for it " Lydia felt firmer ground.
Tell me now all tell me every thing," he continued with energy, "that can infuse a portion of the hatred which fills your soul into mine, that my hand may be firmer my heart more hardened to the deed.
A crumb of reflection such as this could brace him, adding its modest maravedi to his prized storehouse of gain, fortifying with assurances of his having a concrete basis for his business in life. His great youthful ambition had descended to it, but had sunk to climb on a firmer footing. Arthur Abner had his next adieu.
After long confinement to the bed from disease, the joints have wasted ligaments, thin cartilages, and the bones are of smaller proportions. Duly exercised muscles influence the size of the bones upon which they act. Thus the bones of a well-developed man are stronger, firmer, and larger than those of a feeble person.
But as these words left my lips, nay, before I had stumbled through them, I perceived by the set look of his features, which were as if cast in bronze, that I might falter, but that he was firm as ever, firmer, it seemed to me, and less easy to be entreated. Yet what of that? At the worst, what had I to fear?
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