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The way over the shifting sands was toilsome enough to all the rest of the party; but Berenger scarcely seemed to feel the deep plunge at every step as they almost ploughed their way along for the weary two miles, before a few green bushes and half-choked trees showed that they were reaching the confines of the sandy waste.
The inn was large, with a floor of clay, and a black ceiling resting on walls out of the perpendicular; these had lost their whitewash, and were pierced by two small windows half-choked up with straw. Directly opposite the latter, behind a wooden railing, stood a cask resting on other barrels, above which smoked the red glare of a naphtha lamp.
Pyecroft was again in the second maid's room. Mary eagerly sprang forward and caught his hand. "I waited to thank you you were simply superb!" she cried enthusiastically. "I've been telling your sister how wonderful you are. She's got to forgive you I'll make her! And Jack will die laughing when I tell him." She herself burst into excited merriment that half-choked her.
There was a dreadful half-choked, whimper and then silence. "Tommy stood regarding the still form with a bleached face. He then bent over him, but without touching, looked up at me. "'Saved a firing party the trouble, he said. 'He's dead all right. "He straightened himself up. "'What the devil shall we do with it, McNab?
Here, by some evil chance, the child awoke, and, between cold and hunger and fear, began one of those long and loud shrieks that no power can stop this side of strangulation. In vain Hitty kissed, and coaxed, and half-choked her boy, in hope to stop the uproar; still he screamed more and more loudly.
The fading grey light fell dimly on the walls decorated with guns, whips, and foxes' brushes, on coats and hats flung on the chairs, on tankards sending forth a scent of flat ale, and on a half-choked fire, with pipes propped up in the chimney-corners: signs of a domestic life destitute of any hallowing charm, with which the look of gloomy vexation on Godfrey's blond face was in sad accordance.
A half-choked cry followed the plunge, then ugly sounds of a scuffle under the ditch-bank men breathing hard, sighing and snorting; and somebody gasped as if he were being held down till his breath was gone. "Get in there, you old muskrat! You shall stop your own breaks if it takes your cursed carcass to do it! Now then, have you got your breath?"
"He's a brick, every inch of him," said Walter, in a voice half-choked with tears; "and much more than a brick too he's a great square block of marble, or Scotch granite, as fine a one as ever Freemason tapped with a trowel there. And now, auntie, for the historical examples." "My first," said Miss Huntingdon, "is that of a very remarkable man John Wesley, the father of the Methodists.
For a moment they were blinded and half-choked by the force and fury of the spray and wind, and crouched down behind their shelter to recover themselves. Then, with a hearty laugh at their drenched appearance, they made their way to the mainmast, and then, holding on by the belaying pins, they were able to look fairly out on the gale.
He was driven out of his new paradise after a tantalizing glimpse at it. And he could not understand why. So his tears must needs flow freely and his throat contracted convulsively with half-choked sobs, and the final result of it was that he was ordered to bed at once. That ended his last chance of abstracting a few more thrills from the borrowed treasure.
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