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He groped blindly about in the darkness of his soul, and no guiding light showed him the way. With a groan, he knotted his fingers together and prayed the first real prayer his heart had ever uttered. It was wordless and formless, just an inarticulate cry for help in the hour of need. The answer came when he looked again at Carter.
The time had been when he had not understood the impassioned language of those burning lands, where writhed but knotted vine-stocks, withered almond-trees, and decrepit olives sprawling with crippled limbs. Protected by his ignorance, he had passed undisturbed through all that world of passion. But, to-day, his ear detected the slightest sigh of the leaves that lay panting in the heat.
We were holding on to the royal lift and brace, both of us, each with one hand while with the other we tried to unloose the closely knotted bunting, our faces almost touching each other, and still without ever saying a word; when, all at once, through some one having neglected his duty when the topgallant-mast was sent aloft after the gale, the ends of the lift and brace slipped off the jack, to which they had been only loosely secured, leaving `Ugly' and I suspended in the air partly by the signal halliards and partly by the flag, which latter parted with a ripping sound that I hear now in my ears as I speak of it.
On his knees the huge hands of Joe Delesse clenched slowly, gripping in their imaginary clutch a hated thing. "Oui, I know him," he said. "I know also Elise his wife. See!" He thrust suddenly his two huge knotted hands through the smoke that drifted between him and the stranger who had sought the shelter of his cabin that night. "See I am a man full-grown, m'sieu a man and yet I am afraid of him!
And he passed his days in those sacred regions, some of which were sacred for their water and others for their soil in the rigid observance of his vows, with singleness of aim, and his passions under complete control. And the Grandsire of all, Brahma, saw that ascetic with knotted hair, clad in rags, and his flesh, skin, and sinews dried up owing to the hard penances he was practising.
You should thank me, not blame me! but you are blind children all, and cannot even see where you have been faithfully served by your faithfullest friend!" At these words a new light appeared to break on the minds of all present a light that was reflected in their eager and animated faces. The knotted line of Thord's brooding brows smoothed itself gradually away.
If, as Diana stated, the ribbon had been knotted loosely about the hilt of the stiletto, it must have fallen off unnoticed by the assassin when, weapon in hand, he was retreating from the scene of crime. "He must have come down here from the sitting-room," mused Denzil, as he stood in the cool, damp kitchen. "And as the ribbon was found by Mrs.
Ferrari glared about him like a tiger at bay his face was flushed and swollen like that of a man in apoplexy the veins in his forehead stood out like knotted cords his breath came and went hard as though he had been running. He turned his rolling eyes upon me.
Hence Molly found him waiting in a flannel shirt of highly becoming shade, and with a silk handkerchief knotted round his throat; and he told her it was good to feel respectable again. She had come to read to him for the allotted time; and she threw around his shoulders the scarlet and black Navajo blanket, striped with its splendid zigzags of barbarity.
Every button was on, every thread-end knotted and clipped, and some tired workers lay down to rest, as did a very happy child and a very thankful old lady. Every one got away by ten o'clock the next morning. The last I saw of little Cora Belle was when they had reached the top of a long slope and Balaam had "stopped to rest."
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