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Blanched herself, Monica saw that her lover's face turned to ghastly pallor. 'Who can that be? he whispered hoarsely. 'I expect no one. 'Need you answer? 'Can it be ? Have you been followed? Does any one suspect ? They stared at each other, still half-paralysed, and stood waiting thus until the knock was repeated impatiently.
For, as if it had scented an easy prey close at hand, a deep-voiced tiger had startled him from his watch about an hour before midnight by a deep-toned roar which had made the young subaltern stand half-paralysed for a few minutes, feeling as he did that there was nothing but the partly woven, fence-like wall of the big stable between him and the most savage beast that ranges the Eastern jungles.
Amazed at having learnt so much in such a short time, I took from my pocket the paper on which the dying nobleman had attempted to write with his half-paralysed hand. The chief constable had given the document to me, and I sat on the stair head, spread it out on the floor and scrutinised it. It was all but meaningless. Apparently two words and the initial letter of a third had been attempted.
Throughout the early weeks of her widowhood Fay remained as one stunned. Even Magdalen, who hurried out to her, supposed at first that she was stunned by grief. "Then Andrea knew all the time." That was the constant refrain of her bewildered, half-paralysed mind. Gradually in the quiet monotonous life at Priesthope the question made itself felt. "How did he know?"
Remember, I am alone and so frightened. Oh! do be quick. Here, take hold of my hands." This time her words went home, and the boy, half-paralysed with cold and completely worn out, remembered his responsibility. "Come along, Harry hold hard!
The left arm felt half-paralysed, the left nostril was choked with mucus, and on the centre of the left shoulder blade I felt a pain as if some one was branding me with a hot iron.
It learns not, neither can it forget; and though, at present, bewildered and afraid to move, it is as willing as ever to insist that the first chapter of Genesis contains the beginning and the end of sound science; and to visit, with such petty thunderbolts as its half-paralysed hands can hurl, those who refuse to degrade Nature to the level of primitive Judaism.
Then there was impatient thundering at the knocker, and wild ringing of the bell. "Fire!" gasped the half-petrified Mrs Rigonda. "No smell!" said her half-paralysed spouse. Loud voices in the passage; stumbling feet on the stairs; suppressed female shrieks; bass masculine exclamations; room door burst open; old couple, in alarm, on their feet; cat, in horror, on the top of the bookcase!
He took one of the oysters, laid it in a particular way upon the rock, gave it a smart blow over the muscular hinge, and then, taking advantage of the half-paralysed mollusc, he managed to get the edge of the axe between the shells, wriggled it about a little, and then, mastering the opposition offered by the singular creature within, he wrenched the two shells apart and used his knife to scrape out the flesh of the oyster, felt it well over and then thrust it into the bucket, which he half filled with the clear water.
"He's an awful brute, isn't he?" continued the young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady's champion. "The very worst; I knew him at Nice," said Lawrence Lefferts with authority. "A half-paralysed white sneering fellow rather handsome head, but eyes with a lot of lashes.
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