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Updated: May 7, 2025
Behind them the growling of the maddened beast reverberated against the walls of the little room. The boy paled, but no other sign of fear or panic showed upon his countenance. He was the son of Tarzan. The fingers tightened their grip upon his throat. It was with difficulty that he breathed, gaspingly. The ape lunged against the stout cord that held him.
"'It is strange, said the first voice; 'he is pale and delicate, but with no evidences of heavier afflictions. "'You do not know him, murmured the other; 'wait and see! "A face bent down to mine, and the lips of a woman touched my cheek. I started in my sleep, caught my breath gaspingly, and quivered like an aspen.
Oh, beloved child, bow to the hand that smites thee, for the stubborn will must be broken. Wait not, like me, till it be ground into dust." She paused breathless and exhausted, but I answered not. Low sobs came gaspingly from my bosom, on which a mountain of ice seemed freezing.
She reached Scott, flushed and breathless and quivering still with the wonder of it. He greeted her courteously. "Are you having a good time, Miss Bathurst?" She answered him gaspingly. Somehow it was an immense relief to find herself by his side. "Yes; a glorious time. But I am coming off now. Have you have you seen anything of Lady Grace or the Colonel?"
Drake was by this time dreadfully out of breath, and gaspingly protested that he had come to the end of his tether; nevertheless he managed to muster sufficient strength to jog along close behind his friend.
Only in the last bitter instant did I confess my disability with the best grace I could assume. "My friends," I said, gaspingly, "this is my first appearance in your country, and I am but just convalescent; my head is a little weak. Will you kindly bear with me a moment while the janitor gets me a glass of water?" A hearty burst of applause took the sting from my mortification.
Correspondents did their best, and after they had squeezed the rhetorical sponge of its last drop of ink distilled to frenzy of adjectives in inadequate effort, they gaspingly laid their copy on the table of the censor, who minded not "word pictures" which contained no military secrets.
"You'll have to hold both of us for a minute!" she cried. "Go ahead! I understand!" he returned, swaying his body back as he clung to the stout cord, and digging his heels into the bank. Nancy hung over the swift current and stretched her right hand down to the boy. "Get hold! Grab me!" she called, gaspingly. "I I'll pull you in," he replied, in a strangled tone.
Don Carlos released her at once, and she rose to her feet, pressing her hands instinctively to her heaving bosom, as if to try to still the wild throbbing of her heart. Her lovely face was flushed, her breath was coming and going in sobbing gasps, her eyes, dark with emotion, were feverishly bright, and her whole body seemed afire. "Let me go now, please," she added gaspingly. "I can bear no more.
Ask that woman how much she gets for her work, and she will tell you six cents for making coarse shirts and find her own thread. Years ago, one Sabbath night in the vestibule of this church, after service, a woman fell in convulsions. The doctor said she needed medicine not so much as something to eat. As she began to revive, in her delirium she said, gaspingly: "Eight cents! Eight cents!
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