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Updated: May 17, 2025
"You must stay with me, or we must go together, Joeboy!" There was no reply, and in alarm I stretched out my left hand to seize hold of him; but he had gone. I half-fancied I heard a faint rustle some distance off as of a great serpent gliding across in front of my head; but I dared not raise my voice to stop him.
Still he had some moments, brief but brilliant, when, forgetting the iron race amongst whom he was thrown, he plunged into scholastic reveries of the worshipped Past, and half-fancied that he was of a People worthy of his genius and his devotion.
Twice over, after tremendous efforts that he half-fancied loosened his teeth, he gave up what seemed to be an impossibility; but he was roused upon each occasion by an impatient movement on the part of Punch. "It's of no use," he thought.
If I had wanted her, I would have married her you can bet on that." He hated himself for lying in this way, but he felt for the time being that he had to do it. He did not care to stand in the rôle of a jilted lover. He half-fancied that he could have married Christina if he had really tried. "Anyhow," he said, "I'm not going to argue that point with you.
He and Turner were talking together at one of the windows. "Did you hear a gun?" I asked them. "No. Was there one?" "I'm not sure. I half-fancied I heard one, but no other followed. There will be a good many fired to-night, though, along this awful coast." "I suppose they keep the life-boat always ready," said Turner.
He told Presley in a few words what had happened during the first night he had spent in the garden of the old Mission, of the Answer, half-fancied, half-real, that had come to him. "To no other person but you would I speak of this," he said, "but you, I think, will understand will be sympathetic, at least, and I feel the need of unburdening myself of it to some one.
Had the call been from a well-to-do patient who fostered a half-fancied illness, he might have been more put out than he certainly was when, upon turning into the street, he felt the keen east wind nipping his ears; but it was from a poor house lying in the midst of a very labyrinth of squalid back streets and foul courts, and yet but a mere stone's-throw from his own comfortable dwelling.
She knew the Farlows would be awfully upset, and she wanted more time to prepare them." Darrow heard himself speak as though the words had proceeded from other lips. His explanation sounded plausible enough, and he half-fancied Anna's look grew lighter.
I next thought it advisable to try and slip my anchor, and let the ship drift, for I still half-fancied that perhaps I might come across my companions somewhere.
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