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She gathered all her force rolled over swiftly again got her hands on the gun just as Creech leaped like a panther upon her. His weight crushed her flat his strength made her hand-hold like that of a child. He threw the gun aside. Lucy lay face down, unable to move her body while he stood over her.
The lightkeeper made no comment. After a moment the young man continued. "I landed in Boston," he said, "full of conceit and high-minded ideas of working my own way up the ladder. But in order to work up, you've got to get at least a hand-hold on the bottom rung. I couldn't get it. Nobody wanted a genteel loafer, which was me. My money gave out.
Still he had no intention of going up, knowing full well that he would only be giving himself up to insult, and perhaps serious injury, taken at a disadvantage, as he felt that he must be; but calmly, and in the most sure-footed way, sidled along, with the ledge getting more and more narrow, but the hand-hold better.
Hearne overtook his guides stripping themselves of everything that might impede flight or give hand-hold to an enemy, and daubing their skin with war-paint. Hearne begged Matonabbee to restrain the murderous warriors. The great chief smiled with silent contempt.
I watch him working upon that corpus, which so lately was a thing of life and movement my book and see that he cannot lift it; that he must have some hand-hold to grip it by my style or my supposed interest in the Socialist Party, or the fact that I am a professor or a Roman Catholic.
We saw poor Wordsworth clinging on to the slippery wall, as high up as the smooth mass afforded hand-hold. "Come along, old fellow!" we shouted; "it's not up to your neck yet." "He turned his head over his shoulder even at the distance we were, its pallor was quite visible and slowly and cautiously releasing one hand, he pointed to the water between himself and the island.
"Man overboard!" cried Daggoo, who amid the general consternation first came to his senses. "Swing the bucket this way!" and putting one foot into it, so as the better to secure his slippery hand-hold on the whip itself, the hoisters ran him high up to the top of the head, almost before Tashtego could have reached its interior bottom. Meantime, there was a terrible tumult.
"Isn't it very dangerous?" said he. "Not a bit," answered Tom; "you can't hurt if you only get good hand-hold. Try every branch with a good pull before you trust it, and then up you go." Martin was now amongst the small branches close to the nest, and away dashed the old bird, and soared up above the trees, watching the intruder. "All right four eggs!" shouted he.
The limestone crumbled away here and there; tufts of tough grass came out by the roots, and the stunted stems of bushes were not plentiful enough for hand-hold. But whenever the lad found the place too difficult, he edged off to right or left, and found an easier spot from which he lowered himself, and edged his way back along the joining of the next row of blocks.
For a few moments he clung there, the nervous thoughts of what might be if he slipped and were caught in the whirlpool being sufficient to half paralyse him; then turning angry at his feeling of cowardice, he reached boldly out again, found fresh hand-hold, and did the same again and again, till he was a dozen yards beyond the sink-hole, and had to stop and think.
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