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I held on so tight that I squeezed the hair out of the cushions." When they reached the railroad station, and Sam had finally fought his way to the station master, that half-crazed official informed him he had missed the departure of Mrs. Taylor Holbrooke's car by just ten minutes. Brother Sam reported this state of affairs to his companions.
Hardly had this tidings been related before two more runners, half dead with fatigue, half-crazed with horror, came panting in from Bryan's to tell how Caldwell and Girty and their hordes of savages had surprised and surrounded that garrison.
Here they relax the labors of the day with every distraction known to human dissipation. Staggering out broken-hearted, in the dark midnight, dozens of ruined gamesters have wandered from these fatal doors into the plaza. The nearest alley gives a shelter; a pistol ball crashes into the half-crazed brain. Suicide! the gambler's end! Already the Potter's Field claims many of these victims.
I have been trying to soothe and to comfort a distracted girl, a half-crazed old man, a bereft and horribly smitten family. I have been doing all in my power to put hope and courage into the heart of a despairing and most unhappy lover." "Meaning Captain Morford?" "Yes. He has been almost beside himself.
And there, with her half-crazed brain and breaking heart like one acting or forced to act in a ghastly dream, she began to arrange her evidence collect the letters, the list of witnesses and all, preparatory to setting forth upon her fatal mission in the morning. With the earliest dawn of morning, Miriam left her room. In passing the door of Mr.
She seized him by the sleeve with her good hand, panting wildly, "No, no, Jurgis! Stop!" "What do you mean?" he gasped. "You mustn't go up," she cried. Jurgis was half-crazed with bewilderment and fright. "What's the matter?" he shouted. "What is it?" Marija clung to him tightly; he could hear Ona sobbing and moaning above, and he fought to get away and climb up, without waiting for her reply.
Headley too, I'll say it to your faces, I'll speak the truth to any man, gentle or simple; and that ain't enough for you, but you must come over that poor half-crazed girl, to set her plaguing honest people, with telling 'em they'll all be dead in a month, till nobody can eat their suppers in peace: and that again ain't enough for you, but you must go to my lord with your "
Oh, Luxembourg must have been stricken mad to have urged them to go thither! And once there, who or what could have prevented that tipsy royalist enthusiasm, the wild burst of sympathy, the trampling of the tri-color cockade? They say the Queen moved among the half-crazed soldiers shining and beautiful as a star, boy.
He could only feel that some dark deed lay either at the door of the girl who had paid him to masquerade as her husband, or the half-crazed inventor down the street. And the toils lay closer to Dorothy, he felt, than they did to Scott. "You have been very helpful, I am sure," he said to Mrs. Wilson. He bade her good-by and left the house, feeling thoroughly depressed in all his being.
The hour has already passed when my daughter should be before the altar. For God's sake, name your price. I will pay, I will pay," sobbed the half-crazed woman "Sir, do you know what you are doing?" demanded the quaking old man, finding his voice at last. "You must listen to reason. Think of yourself, if not of us. What will become of you when you are caught? Pause in this awful crime and think "
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