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Dawson's governess; he remembered the sick, half-shuddering sensation of regret and disappointment that had come over him then, and he felt as if it had in some manner dimly foreshadowed the agony of to-night.
Even when, as a little girl of eight, fresh from the gentle restraints and rare religious and social amenities of an aristocratic convent school in Paris, she had first encountered it, it struck her as strangely familiar a thing given back rather than newly discovered, making her mind and innocent body alike eager with absorbed yet half-shuddering recognition.
Evidently the plan had gone awry. Fear always stood near the fore, ready to rush out upon Delgado's timid spirit. "And being dead," resumed the Frenchman, "he is much safer." Louis gave a half-shuddering sigh of relief.
"Oh, please do," I cried half-shuddering, half-enraptured. "If the foundation of marriage depends on equality and agreement, it is likewise true that the greatest passions rise out of opposites. We are such opposites, almost enemies. That is why my love is part hate, part fear. In such a relation only one can be hammer and the other anvil. I wish to be the anvil.
Alf drew back, half-shuddering from the blackened clay pipe, filled with strong tobacco, which the cook passed him. "You're always itching to be a man," mocked the cook. "And now's your chance. A pipe is a man's smoke. Them cigs are fit only for 'sheeters." "I don't wanter smoke it," pleaded Alf, drawing back from the proffered pipe.
Then you go down to the bottom of the pool with a hand-line " "A hand-line!" murmured the listener, half-shuddering in feigned horror. "Yes, a hand-line," the speaker went on firmly, "a long, light hand-line, without a sinker, baited with a single, clean angle-worm, and loosely coiled in your left hand.
Caryll's sword; then, easily but irresistibly, it was lifted out of Rotherby's hand, and dropped on the turf a half-yard or so from his lordship's stockinged feet. A cold sweat of terror broke upon him. He caught his breath with a half-shuddering sob of fear, his eyes dilating wildly for Mr. Caryll's point was coming straight as an arrow at his throat.
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