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God forgive me, I quite lost myself that time, didn't I? It was foolish," he added, with heartbroken anxiety, "wasn't it, Elsa?" "Yes, Andor," she said simply. "It was foolish," he reiterated, still speaking calmly, even though his voice was half-choked with sobs, "it was foolish to think that you would turn your back on a fellow who had just lived these past five years for you."
'To tell you the truth, there's a difficulty about the books. He glanced furtively at me, and I saw he was trembling in all his nerves. 'As you see, my circumstances are not brilliant. He half-choked himself with a crow. 'The fact is we were offered a house in the country, on certain conditions, by a relative of Mrs.
When the great wave retired, and Martin, half-choked with water and half-dazed, struggled on to his feet, he saw that it was night, and a cloudy, black sky was above, and the black sea beneath him. He had not seen the light fade, and had perhaps fallen asleep and seen and talked with that old sea monster in a dream.
In another minute the party stood clustered upon the black and smoking ground which the fire they had kindled had swept clear. There, for five minutes, they remained without moving unscorched by the raging element around them, but half-choked with the smoke. Then Mr. Hardy spoke: "It is over now. You can look up."
The words struck like bullets on Iskender's heart, they so cruelly confirmed the tale of Asad son of Costantîn. Elias arrived, and asked him how he did. Iskender made known his tidings in a voice half-choked by grief. "Was any word said against me?" asked the dragoman eagerly. Iskender shook his head. "The praise to Allah! Take heart, O my soul! If I am still in favour, I can plead for thee."
They walked a minute, that might have been an hour, without a word; not round the Square, as he had walked with Oliver, but away from the house. At last she said in a half-choked voice: "I only want a little bit of you." And he answered dully: "In love, there are no little bits no standing still."
But the next moment, owing probably to Lubin having lost his equilibrium, the young rhapsodist found himself, spluttering and half-choked, nearer to the bed of the river than the surface, while his leg was held in chancery by a network of clinging water-weeds.
"I don't know what you mean, Stephen," she said, more gently than he had ever heard her speak. Was it an agony of mind or of body, or was it but a flickering of the shadows upon his face? A moment, and he gave a half-choked shriek and fell on the floor. His mother turned from him with disgust and rang the bell. "Send Tom here," she said. An elderly, hard-featured man came.
He saw the way her hands locked and twisted together and remembered with a heart-arresting pang, her half-choked cry, "Don't! Don't hurt them like that!" when his own had agonized in such a grip. But no caress of his could help her now. He held himself still in his chair and waited. "The whole truth of this story isn't any prettier than the brute fact. There weren't any extenuating circumstances."
By-and-by the little girl came up with a fresh load, and as she stooped to put it on the pile, the boys, who had all gathered round, pushed her over and covered her with a mass of old leaves; then, with a shout of laughter at their rough joke, they ran away. She struggled out and stood up half-choked with dust, her face covered with dirt, and dress and hair with the black half-rotten leaves.
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