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Another half-minute, and they arrived at the door of the stockade; they entered, shut the door, and then barricaded it with the cocoa-nut poles which they had fitted to the inner door-posts. The loud yells of the savages struck terror into the heart of Mrs Seagrave; it was well that she had not seen their painted bodies and fierce appearance, or she would have been much more alarmed.
Brandegee was too big, in mind as well as body, for any boy of their size to feel at all uneasy after the first half-minute of looking in his calm, broad, thoughtful face. Every member of that quartet began to feel a queer sort of impatience to tell all he knew about books.
The imagination recoiled from the thought of what he could be doing in another half-hour if he deteriorated at his present speed. A feeling of calm and content stole over me. I was not sorry for him. All the viciousness of my nature was uppermost in me. Once, when he missed the ball clean at the fifth tee, his eye met mine, and we stood staring at each other for a full half-minute without moving.
Neither of them looked at the young priest, who ten minutes before had welcomed them with a merry laugh and had placed them in the most comfortable chairs of his little bookish den, as cordially as if they were the best friends he had in the world. Now the young priest looked old and the half-minute had done it.
She had colored slippers, and was drinking tea from her mother's cup. Another child, named Broderick McGowan, represented Columbus, and joyfully shouted "Ki-yi!" every half-minute. One child was attired as a prominent admiral; another as a prominent general; and one stood in a boat and was Washington. As Mrs.
In that tense half-minute when she stared at the objects he held it seemed to him that her heart-strings must snap under the strain. Then she drew back from them, her eyes filled with horror, her hands raised as if to shut out the sight of them, and a panting, sobbing cry broke from between her pallid lips. "Oh, my God!" she breathed. "Take them away take them away!"
"Billy, Billy, I've been sketching," he cried. "My hand is almost steady. See, some of those lines are all right! I just picked up a crayon and " He stopped abruptly, his eyes on Billy's face. A vaguely troubled shadow crossed his own. "Did did you were you saying anything in in particular, when you came in?" he stammered. For a short half-minute Billy looked at her husband without speaking.
From that to the unhorsing and the binding had been merely a rough-and-tumble half-minute, inasmuch as he was unarmed and the surprise had been complete; but the grotesquery remained. Since his captors had as yet made no attempt to rob him, he could only surmise that some incredibly foolish mistake had been made.
Hilary Vance rose, folded his two big arms, and faced the door of the studio, his brow knitted in a dreadful frown. "Hadn't I better send him away?" said Pollyooly anxiously. Hilary Vance ground his teeth and scowled steadily at the studio door for a good half-minute.
There was a half-minute cessation of the baa and blat, and before it was resumed the tender had prodded the two herders into wakefulness. "Better sleep with one eye open," he advised. "There's a wolf in the hills. Just crossing through, mebbe but anyhow you better stay awake to hold the sheep while I fire a shot to scare him off if he comes too close.
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