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Out of the corner of his eye he was aware of her watching him, a baleful figure. He feared to employ the tenderness of tone necessary in his conversations with Chrystie, and as he listened and made out that she wanted to break her next engagement, he turned and fastened a gorgon's glance on the woman in the doorway, jerking his head in a gesture of dismissal.
Gordon had just time to straighten up before the doorway was filled with two knife-men and a heavier one behind them. His hands dropped to the handcuffed man on the floor, and he caught him up with a jerk, slapping his body back against the counter. He took a step forward, jerking his hands up and putting his Earth-adapted shoulders behind it.
Jerking the fellow toward him, he passed his arm around Rondeau's neck, holding the latter's head as in a vise with the crook of his elbow. And then the battering started. When it was finished, Bryce let his man go, and Rondeau, bloody, sobbing, and semi-conscious, sprawled on the ground. Bryce bent over him. "Now, damn you," he roared, "who felled that tree in Cardigan's Redwoods?"
'I dare say you feel pretty hot here? jerking his finger into his stomach. 'And and and what is it? is it do you think it's anything anyways dangerous? faltered poor O'Flaherty. 'Dangerous! responded Sturk, with an angry chuckle indeed, he was specially vindictive against lay intruders upon the mystery of his craft; 'why, yes ha, ha! just maybe a little.
She lay where she had fallen, with her muscles jerking and shuddering, until a man appeared from behind the counter, and dragged her unceremoniously to the women's shelter. Gordon entered the tent where the service was in progress.
He regarded his companion from time to time obliquely from the corners of his eyes, to see what impression his words were making, and had a habit of jerking himself up in the middle of a sentence and looking warily round to see if any one were listening, which indicated habitual distrust. "Our holy Superior is out a good while this morning," he said, at length.
Much money shall we realize on a corpse especially after the six months beneath the burning sun that will be consumed in carrying it to its destination!" "The fool should have known that we desired her alive," grumbled Malbihn, grasping a corner of the cloth and jerking the cover from the thing that lay upon the litter.
There was a little cold tea in a cup close to him that Bessie had forgotten. He stretched out his hand, and took a mouthful, moistening his dry lips and throat. 'Yer'll go to prison for this, he said, jerking it out as he put the cup down. He saw her shiver. Her nerve was failing her. The convulsive sobs continued, but she ceased to abuse him.
In the little deep water left by the drought, an overhead-crane travelled to and fro along its spile-pier, jerking sections of iron into place, snorting and backing and grunting as an elephant grunts in the timber-yard.
But I thought that as long as it emptied us out somewhere, I should not greatly mind the Seine. At this very moment M. Étienne clutched my arm, jerking me to a halt. I bounded backward, trying in the blackness to discern a precipice yawning at my feet. "Look!" he cried in a low, tense voice.
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