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She grasped him frantically his wrist his shoulder nay, stretching over, linked her arms round his neck. Something in her touch seemed to impart strength to him. He whispered, half gasping, "Hold me firm, and I'll do it yet, Agatha." She did not then notice, or recollect till long afterwards, how he had called her by her Christian name, nor the tone in which he had said it.
The audience realizes that the great Keystone State has not been heard from. The uproar increases. Men stand on their chairs and wave their hats, shouting themselves hoarse. "Pennsylvania, what's the matter with Pennsylvania? She's all right!" The man in the gallery draws a flag from beneath his coat and waves it frantically. "Trueman, Trueman! Speech!" The cry changes instantly.
All in all, she was a figure to awaken interest in the nightly performance at the Palace Garden, and to cause men customers to forget their change. "Miss Knight! I'm SO glad to see you again," she burbled. "How SWEET you look!" The poodle pawed frantically and yelped a shrill appreciation of the meeting. "I hoped we'd meet again; but where HAVE you been? I Hush, Francois!
For a moment it seemed that they must upset. Then, by a miracle, the car righted itself. For a moment it seemed about to straighten itself out and resume its flight. And then, together, Fred and Boris saw what lay before them, and Boris tried frantically to swing the car out. In the road lay the wreck of a huge van. It was too much for Boris. He did swerve the car, but it struck the wreck.
Out of a cut in the hillside, half screened by a clump of bushes at the side on which Jane was riding, a great gray motor shot out just as they were passing. Jane caught just one glimpse of the man on the driver's seat. It was Frederic Hoff, frantically twisting at the wheel in an effort to avert the threatened collision.
At last the dark courthouse loomed up ahead of them, and Phineas rounding a curb by a fraction, dashed for the open square. "Morley case gone to the jury?" he hung half out of the wagon to shout to a man coming down the wide steps. "Not yet." Miss Lady was already frantically pulling the blankets from the submerged Chick. "Wait for Mr.
Frantically he worked, and like Trojans Clay and the negroes labored under him. All that drunken doctor's limp laissez faire was gone now. The blood of some fighting ancestor had warmed up inside him. He might be physically weak and unhandy, but the lust of battle filled him up like new drink, and he forgot his disgraceful past, and lived only for the thrill of the present moment.
Emerging from the lethargy which had enthralled me for a moment, I struggled frantically to free myself, but in vain.
They really start now, and the dead looks of all the throng come to life immediately. The man who has been frantically hauling in a rope that bade fair to have no end ceases his labours, and they glide down the serpentine bends of the Thames. Anything anywhere was a mine of interest to Elfride, and so was this. 'It is well enough now, said Mrs.
His long, gaunt body, frantically gesticulating, his skull-like face, with its mobile features twisted into an eternal grin, its piercing eyes sparkling and darting all this suggested the appearance of a corpse galvanized into an incredible animation. But in truth it was no dead ghost that inhabited this strange tenement, but the fierce and powerful spirit of an intensely living man.
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