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"He's come back!" cried Mrs. Boxer, hysterically. "Thank goodness," said Mrs. Gimpson, after a moment's deliberation. "He's alive!" cried Mrs. Boxer. "He's alive !" She half-dragged and half-led him into the small parlour, and thrusting him into the easy-chair lately vacated by Mrs.
Muriel advanced fiercely upon the woman. She almost felt as if she could have choked her. She seized her by the shoulders without ceremony. The ayah ceased her wailing for a moment, then recommenced in a lower key. Muriel pulled her to her feet, half-dragged, half-led her to her own room, thrust her within, and locked the door upon her. Then she returned to Daisy.
Between them they half-led, half-carried the wanderer to the canoe and lifted him into it, where he sank exhausted. Then they dipped their paddles and the boat shot homeward, racing with death. Angelique was still on the beach and still complaining of their foolhardiness, but one word from her master silenced that. "Lend a hand, woman! Here's something real to worry about.
Seton still leant over the table, striving with all his resolution to force Merefleet's attention away from her. But Merefleet would not allow it. He saw what Seton did not stop to see; and it was he, not Seton, who lifted her to her feet a moment later and half-led, half-carried her out of the stifling room.
Hartmann saw that her resistance was as yet unbroken. "Take her arm, Mayer," he called out, as he seized her by one wrist. "Come along now. We'll see if a closer view will have any effect." He snatched up a broad leather strap from a shelf along the wall, then, with Mayer's assistance, half-led, half dragged her to the iron stairway in the corner.
He had half-led, half-pushed the other to a chair near one of the pillars of the rotunda. "I am going to tell her," said the wreck. "What are you doing with her?" he demanded fiercely. "That is no business of yours," replied van Heerden sharply. "No business of mine, eh! I'll show you it's some business of mine. I am going to tell her all I know about you.
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