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The Colonel, as he ended, half-turned to his subordinate officer at the end of the dim line, as though he were about to turn the company over to him to be dismissed; then faced the line again, and taking a step nearer, with a sudden movement of his hands towards the men as though he would have stretched them out to them, began again: "Men," he said, and his voice changed at the word, and sounded like a father's or a brother's, "My men, I cannot let you go so.
Semi-consciously she half-turned on her side, curved her free arm on the pillow and nestled her head on it, and drew her body up in nestling curves in the way Dick knew she loved to sleep. After a long time, she sighed faintly, and began so easily to go that she was gone before they guessed.
Ainley loved her; but now, if he were the last man left in the world, she would never A sound of movement interrupted her reverie, and she half-turned as Stane rose from his spruce-couch. "You have heard nothing?" he asked. "Nothing!" she replied. "I will take the watch now, Miss Yardely, and do you lie down and rest."
He set his hands upon her shoulders, and held her so at arm's length from him considering her with very tender eyes. "Sweet lady!" he murmured, and sighed heavily. "God! How happy might we not have been but for that evil chance...." He checked abruptly. His hands fell from her shoulders to his sides, he half-turned away, brusque now in tone and manner. "I grow maudlin.
She didn't want to influence me in any way; whatever I did must be done of my own free will. "I'm beginning to understand," I said slowly. "Then you'll forgive?" she said quickly, and one hand went up to her throat as if she were choking. I nodded and impulsively she held out her hand to me. I did not take it, and she half-turned so that I would not see what was in her eyes.
The flame again played in the dark eyes, more strongly now, no longer to be suppressed. "Mr. Steele!" Her brows arched in sudden surprise; she drew back a little. He seemed about to speak but with an effort checked himself and looked down. "I beg your pardon." His face was half-turned; for a moment he did not go on. "I beg your pardon."
And it is not the night which has chilled me. I am frightened, doctor." The doctor half-turned in his chair, and he patted the arch of the young man's knee, as he might the neck of a restless horse. "What then?" he asked, looking over his shoulder at the pale face with the startled eyes. Twice the young man parted his lips.
Beryl sat half-turned in the seat, glancing back; but for me, I was busy watching the trail and taking the sharp turns in a way to lift the hair of one not used to traveling by lightning. I will confess it was ticklish going, at that pace, and there were places when I took longer chances than I had any right to take. But, you see, I had Beryl and I meant to keep her.
Thayendanega remained half-turned from General Herkimer, and within two feet of the three men whose duty it was to shoot him with the rifles they had concealed under their blankets in case an absolute attack was made, and there watched the antics of his painted crew until perhaps five minutes had passed, when the savages sank down upon the ground as if exhausted, looking like so many images of demons.
And that time I grabbed for him and missed and he went by me, he half-turned and looked at me, and I thought he said, 'I never meant it. Just that I heard, when the sea washed over him, and when he came up again he must've thought that I didn't understand, and he waved one arm. It was like he was saying 'Good-by! the way he did it. Yes, he was all right Harty." "You betcher he was all right.
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