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Only as they left her own, she turned her face aside. Very strangely that savage lapse of his had given her strength. "Physically perhaps but only for a little while," she said gaspingly. "And in spirit, never never again!" "What do you mean?" he said, his arms tightening about her. She kept her face averted. "I mean that some forms of torture are worse than death.
Slowly, like the agonizingly slow plastic creep of metal under great pressure, the gorilla-faced giant was yielding. His dark skin became mottled. His breath came gaspingly. His rope-knotted arms slipped a little. But it was not in him to surrender, which might still have saved his life.
With a joyful exclamation she rushed out of the room, darted down the stair, through the hall, into the porch, and had greeted Maurice before any one but the old gardener knew that he had arrived. "You have heard from her?" were her cousin's first words, gaspingly uttered. "No, not a line. She will never write; she will never come back! O Maurice! I have lost all hope," sighed Bertha.
"You will please lift your veil for the final benediction," said the aged pastor, pausing, book in hand, and gazing at the slim, silent, dark-robed figure, who had made her responses faintly, gaspingly, almost inaudibly.
"It might as well be now!" he paraphrased, to the tune of the age-whitened sextette from "Floradora." "And look at the sparkler! Look at it!" Fairchild could do very little else but look. He knew the value, even in spite of flaws and bad coloring. And he knew something else, that Harry had confessed to having little more than five hundred dollars. "But but how did you do it?" came gaspingly.
He drew a struggling breath with pain and difficulty. "You see, Jim, I've killed a man!" he went on, gaspingly "And and I've no money we all share and share alike in camp it won't be worth any one's while to find excuses for me. They'd shut me up in prison if I lived but now God's my judge! And He's merciful He's giving me my liberty!"
Benton gaspingly breathed the exclamation. "But, man, think of it the women the children the utterly innocent people the Queen!" The Spaniard leaned back, balancing his chair on two legs, his hands spread on the table. "Si, Señor, it is regrettable. Yet nothing on earth appears so easy to supply as Kings except Queens. And after all, what is it to us an American millionaire a Cadiz toreador?"
I tried to read, to write, to do anything but think. I fought, resisted; refused to face what I did not want to see, to listen to what I did not want to hear; and not until the dawn of a new day did I fall asleep. In my dream Lillie was in front of me, the bit of wall-flower in her hands, and gaspingly she cried out that something should be done.
"Did -these -young men frighten -you so badly -that you -made such a commotion -and caused me nearly to breathe -my last in running to -your aid?" demanded the good doctor gaspingly, his eyes twinkling. "No, sir; we came, like yourself, when we heard the girls scream," Dick Prescott explained.
With difficulty Mex turned the man upon his back. A while he lay still. His breathing was labored and he twitched convulsively. The entire nervous system was suddenly depressed. Mex stood motionless beside the pallet, her eyes riveted upon him. Presently his livid lips opened, and he spoke gaspingly, "I'm done for." His hand fumbled about his heart. He was falling into syncope.
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