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Thereupon Jenny, placing the towel on a linen-horse, took the handle of the pump with both hands and pumped over my head as handmaid had never pumped before; so that the water poured in torrents from my head, my face, and my hair down upon the brick floor. And, after the lapse of somewhat more than a minute, I called out with a half-strangled voice, 'Hold, Jenny! and Jenny desisted.
Presently the two happening to come together in their saunterings up and down the platform the Major's interest was aroused by observing that within the bag went on a persistent wriggling; and his interest was quickened into characteristic action when he heard from its interior, faintly but quite distinctly, a very pitiful half-strangled little mew!
Twice she tried to speak, and twice she failed. Then with a little half-strangled gasp she turned away. . . . "You brute," she said, and her voice was shaking, "you brute. . . ." And as their host came down the stairs to join them, Vane laughed a short, triumphant laugh. . . .
Parent, half-strangled and choked, loosened his hold on Limousin, in order to shake off his wife, who was hanging onto his neck; and putting his arms around her waist, he flung her also to the other end of the drawing-room.
Overwhelmed again and again by the waves, each time he emerged with her tight against his breast; half-strangled, he continued to fight on. But at length even his dogged obstinacy and determination began to flag; he felt his strength going, when raising his eyes he saw one of the small craft from the lost vessel bearing directly down upon him.
The dog lifted his forepaws a little clear of the ground, and, as it were, barked without noise, making an eager, half-strangled noise in his throat to show he understood. "Jean!" Stair repeated. "A-owch!" whispered the dog, his tail wagging violently and his eyes fairly blazing. "Go!" said Stair, and the next moment the tall bracken had closed on Whitefoot.
It was a half-strangled scream of terror, I did not go into the room, but as I listened, I knew " He faltered. "Yes," Lily said. "As I listened I knew what the cry meant. Miss Alston, is it not strange that even a baby who scarcely knows life knows so well death?" "Death!" "Yes, recognises its coming, shrinks from it, fears it with the terror of a clear intelligence. Is it not very strange?"
Presently the sibilant silence was broken by a low, half-strangled sob. The sick woman, who had been watching a white evening star through the cherry boughs, turned impatiently at the sound. "I wish you'd get over that, Eunice," she said sharply. "I don't want any one crying over me until I'm dead; and then you'll have plenty else to do, most likely.
The jugular vein of the horse opened; a torrent of bright red blood spouted forth beneath the tooth of the panther, who, now supporting herself on her hind legs, squeezed her victim up against the door, whilst she dug into his flank with her claws, and laid bare the palpitating flesh. Then his half-strangled neighing became awful. Suddenly these words resounded: "Courage, Jovial! I am at hand!
I, who had never embraced a woman with aught but the arm of roughness before, now held pressed to me one whom I loved with an infinite tenderness, and the revelation of how love can come out and link with love was almost my undoing. Yet, outwardly, Nais made so sign, but lay half-strangled in my arms, as any woman does that is being borne away by a spoiler.
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