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His ruddy face became pallid and he lifted one hand with a bewildered gesture to his brow. Harrison and Meegan sprang with a common impulse to his side. As they helped him to a chair, his step was unsteady. "It will pass," Malone assured them. "It is an attack of indigestion." Yet within the half-hour his powerful frame was being racked by convulsions and two hours later specialists at St.
The ground being so favourable, I crossed this low plain at a swinging gallop, and in about thirty minutes' time. In that half-hour I saw a vast number of snakes, all of one kind, and a species new to me; but my anxiety to reach my destination before the oppressive heat of the afternoon made me hurry on.
But one half-hour told another tale: just about that time came a broad sheet of lightning, which, through the darkness of evening, revealed the boat in the very act of mounting like a horse upon an inner reef, instantly filling, and throwing out the crew, every man of whom disappeared amongst the breakers. The night which succeeded was gloomy for both the representatives of his Catholic Majesty.
There would be a time when the earth's greatest artists should contribute paintings for his walls, and palaces give up to him their bronzes and tapestries. When a half-hour later Ham Burton was alone with the stranger he found himself asking and answering many questions.
She was alone; and though she would have been very unwilling to confess it, the half-hour she passed there was as sorrowful a half-hour as she had ever passed in her life. For Effie was by no means so wise and courageous as Christie, in her sisterly admiration, was inclined to consider her.
I fully expected that an outburst of anger would follow on this pleasantry of mine which was, I confess, rather in the taste best suited to Mme. Delhasse than in the best as judged by an abstract standard but to my surprise the old creature did nothing worse than bestow on me a sour grin. Apparently, if I were well-pleased with the last half-hour, she had found time pass no less pleasantly.
I lashed Huldricksson fast in the berth and ran up on deck. The long, peaceful swells had changed into angry, choppy waves from the tops of which the spindrift streamed in long stinging lashes. A half-hour passed; the squall died as quickly as it had arisen. The sea quieted.
"I've heard him say that certain fish won't bite when the tide's running out, and that you can catch others only when it's coming in. Maybe he is hanging around for that." "Then he ought to be back soon," declared Jack, "for the tide turned a half-hour ago." "If he's far out in the bay it will take him a long while to come in. His boat doesn't make very good time," observed Walter.
The carriage is off like a flash; it turns the corner at a gallop. Too cool to leave the fort unguarded, Peyton enters the salon. He finds Josephine moaning over Louise, who has fainted. In a half-hour, Pere Francois and the young men are a bodyguard on duty. Peyton drives to the bank, and telegraphs Woods at London: "Come instantly! Attempt to abduct, prevented by me! Danger!
Had he waited many minutes longer it is probable that the treacherous Aristotle would have passed a comfortless half-hour with his former comrade.
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