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They both pulled as hard as they dared each expecting the other to give way, for the master was in sight, on horseback, by the rick, and a rake broken wantonly would bring a sharp reprimand. "Go it, Sal!" cried the loader on the waggon hoarsely, half choked with hay dust. "Pull away!" "Pull, Tim!" cried one of the pitchers.
With a hoarsely muttered oath Joshua quickened his pace to a run, stretched out his powerful arm, and seized hold of a boy about Tim's size, who, with several parcels in his arms, was trying in vain to escape. In vain because, hanging fast on to one leg, with resolute grip and starting fiery eyes, was the faithful Moses.
For a moment Jim was silent and his face got hard. "It's done with," he said, rather hoarsely. "I meant to make good before I claimed you, and this loss has set me back. I'm not beaten, but I must wait until I can give you all you ought to have. You're so fine and highly-tempered that you're fragile; rough jolts and jars are not for such as you. I've got to work "
At last the man paused in front of her and took her roughly by the arms, so that she cried out. "You love me, Marie?" he demanded hoarsely. "You love me enough to marry me when this accursed war is over?" His voice sank over the last few words, and he glanced, half fearfully, at the curtained door. "But of course, my Fritz," she answered softly.
Those friends of his, of whom he was in nowise worthy, made the burden of his self-distrust doubly heavy. "I will tell you within three days," he said hoarsely. "God bless you, Tommy. I don't deserve to have a man like you troubling himself about me."
He stood holding her arm her arm whence the sleeves had been ripped, and the young man was gazing with fascinated eyes at a peculiar star-shaped mark in deep red imprinted on the white flesh. In red it matched the ruddy hue of the blood drawn by the lynx. "Tell me," he said, hoarsely, "how did that mark come there?" "It is a birth mark," said Amy, slowly. "It has always been there.
It could not be doubted. I could not kill him. Afterward the man who deceived me confessed. He is now dead." Ned Trent, gasping, rose slowly to his feet. One hand stole inside his jacket and clutched the butt of the little pistol. "You did that," he cried, hoarsely. "You tell me of it yourself?
"Wot d'yer want with 'eaving bricks for, anyway," he continued irately after a long inspection which revealed nothing. "This 'ere ain't a bean-feast where you gets the bag of nuts." "Watch this time, Ginger." Once again a large fragment came down in the neighbourhood of the dock leaves followed by an unmistakable groan. "Lumme, mate," said Ginger hoarsely, "wot is it?"
The dead things are there to help you climb. They are rungs in the ladder, boulders for your feet." He leaned a little forward. It seemed as though he recognised something familiar amongst the treetops, or down in the mist-clad valleys. "Naudheim!" he cried hoarsely. "I shall go to Naudheim!" About half-way up, where the sleighs stopped, Lady Mary gave in.
Madden's grip was about to break under the strain the Teuton put on it, but his fingers clung desperately to the fellow's throat, for one shout would bring a hornet's nest around the fugitives. Just then Malone whispered hoarsely: "They're all overboard, sir." Leonard caught the soft stir of oars in the water below.
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