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"I think so," gasped Lady Casterley; and suddenly she found herself half-lifted from the ground, and, as it were, flying towards the stile. She heard a noise behind; then Barbara's voice: "We must stop. He's on us. Get behind me." She felt herself caught and pinioned by two arms that seemed set on the wrong way.
She moved away and began to gather up the dishes from the table, clearing it with swift jerks. She paused a moment and leaned over the platter in her hand half-lifted from its place. "She needs the air," she said, "and to run about she's sick shut up like that!" She lifted the platter and carried it to the sink, a troubled look in her eyes.
"Stop stroking her wrists, Swain," he said; "that does no good," and when Swain, without answering or seeming to hear, kept on stroking them, Godfrey drew the hands away, took Swain by the arm, and half-lifted him to his feet. "Listen to me," he said, more sternly, and shook him a little, for Swain's eyes were dull and vacant.
Still, the knots helped him, the distance was short, and, after a little exertion, he felt a couple of strong hands passed under his arms, when, after a bit of scuffling and plenty of hoist, he felt himself half-lifted in at the cabin-window, and the next instant clasped in a pair of softly-clinging arms. "My poor boy!" whispered Mrs Strong. "Hist! don't speak!
"Stab now, Fortunio!" The captain asked nothing better. He raised his weary sword-arm and brought his point to the level of Garnache's breast, but in that instant its weight became leaden. Imitating the Marquise, Valerie had been in time. She seized Fortunio's half-lifted arm and flung all her weight upon it.
But as he reached the door another stopped him: "John " He turned and stood trembling from head to foot, his brow fretted with an agony of doubt. "Oh, Barbara Garnet!" he cried, "why did you say that?" "Johanna told me," she murmured, smiling through her tears. He started with half-lifted arms, but stopped, turned, and with a hand on his brow, sighed, "My mother!"
The remainder of her remarks were lost to male ears as the tarpaulin dropped around her after Eva Hayward and Nellie had led, or half-lifted, her under its sheltering folds.
Flora sat in her crimson chair, her hands laid on her knee, her face grave, but serene, and half-lifted, like one who hearkens to some unseen call A secret consciousness struck Olive that in this world she should never more hear the voice, or see the face, of one who had been truly a saint on earth. It was indeed so. Coming home! coming home! In different ears how differently sound the words!
So deep was his earnestness that Mantel seemed to catch his enthusiasm and be convinced. But in another instant the old mocking smile had returned. "Would you be so tractable and obedient if the old beggar were in better health?" he said, opening and shutting the leaves of a book which was lying on the table, and looking out from under half-lifted eyelids.
"Don't you go too far, or maybe something you won't like will happen. If you've anything to say, say it straight out. Or there'll be trouble." Deede Dawson seemed a little surprised at the vehemence of the other's tone. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Don't you like the family, or what's upsetting you?" Dunn seemed almost choking with fury. He half-lifted one hand and let it fall again.
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