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He was quite unconscious, only his body had taken upon itself to kill this other man. For himself, he had neither feeling nor reason.
At any rate it is only upon this hypothesis that I can account for his next act, which was in the nature of a last resort a sort of forlorn hope, which could only have been born of the belief that if he did not kill me quickly I should kill him.
I regret to be obliged to admit that, not realising that it would be little short of miraculous to kill a bear stone-dead at 200 yards with a Mannlicher, and being also, naturally, somewhat carried away by the sight of a real bear within possible distance, I waited until I was perfectly steady, and fired. The brute fell over, but immediately picked himself up again and made off.
A story gained great credit in the army, and especially among the French portion of it, immediately after the examination of these men, that they said that they had been hired by Richard himself to kill Conrad, and this story produced every where the greatest excitement and indignation.
But SHE did not doubt him, even though his friends had doubted him. Indeed, if he had himself told her that he was guilty of cheating at cards, she would have refused to believe him. When his story was ended, she exclaimed: "And you wished to kill yourself? Did you not think, senseless boy, that your death would give an appearance of truth to this vile calumny?"
And the three colors of blue, red, and yellow have their counterparts in the three great passions in man to hunt his food, to continue his species, and to kill his enemy.
"You put that down!" she cried, much as she would have commanded William J. to leave the butcher knife alone. "Do you want to kill yerself?" Mr. Snawdor started violently, then collapsing beside the bed, confessed that he did. "What fer?" asked Nance, terror giving way to sheer amazement. "I want to quit!" cried Mr. Snawdor, hysterically. "I can't stand it any longer.
"When you left here," said the girl, who was all excitement, "he watched for you on the other side, and shot at you with this pistol." "What makes you think such a thing?" "I heard two shots, and then yours. So it was this pistol that you took from him?" Timar was surprised that love can see what the eye can not reach. He could not tell a lie. "Did you kill him?" asked the girl. "No."
"If you were so unlucky as to kill your mistress, I would help you to hide your crime, and could still respect you; but if you were to turn spy, I should shun you with abhorrence, for a spy is systematically shameless and base. There you have journalism summed up in a sentence.
Now, the son-in-law was a person of much mysterious power, and he kept the buffalo hidden under a big log-jam in the river. Whenever he needed food and wished to kill anything, he would take his father-in-law with him to help.
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