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Updated: May 21, 2025
She caught her breath; her startled eyes met his with a lightning-swift flash of something that moved him strangely. "What do you mean, Colonel Driscoll?" she asked, low and quickly. "I mean, could you give me your daughter if she at any time could think it possible?" She drew a deep breath; the color seemed blown from her transparent skin like a flame from a lamp.
A deft turn of the head eluded Eitel's snatching hand. With the lightness of a feather, Lad deposited the bundle in the soft dust of the road. In practically, the same gesture, the dog's curving eye-tooth slashed Eitel's outstretched wrist to the bone. Then, staggering under a second head-blow from Roodie, the collie wheeled with lightning-swift fury upon this more hostile of his two assailants.
It was then I first understood the tie between the commanding officer and his men. It is easy to laud the file of privates on dress parade, but the man who directs the file in the hour of battle is the real power. In that instant of peril I turned to Forsyth with that trust that the little child gives to its father. How cool he was, and yet how lightning-swift in thought and action.
For a moment she felt ready to wring her hands and fall to the ground in an agony of despair, but lightning-swift her mood changed to one of revenge and bitter hatred. "Can't you really see how intensely stupid you are?" she hissed through her clenched teeth, as she looked straight into his eyes.
If we throw part of our men on that camp at dawn and the rest upon the castle, the tables may yet be turned." "A good rede, Brian O'Neill," nodded the old Wolf approvingly. At thus hearing his name Brian flung Turlough one lightning-swift glance, then pulled out his Spanish sword and threw it high, and caught it again with a great shout. "Tyr-owen! Slainte!"
Then Snap's courting of the girl, the cool assurance, the unhastening ease, were like the slow rise, the sail, and the poise of a desert-hawk before the downward lightning-swift swoop on his quarry.
And her shock was a lightning-swift awakening to the fact that she felt all this she must hide her face because it was this one man just this one and no other who was being dragged into this thing with insult. It was an awakening, and she broke off, rather slowly, one two three even four campanula stems before she stood upright again.
She held one half-opened hand in the air; with the other she touched the Indian's dark, strongly molded cheek, and pressed his long hair which streamed from beneath his broad white hat. No one smiled. She was deaf and dumb and blind. In her raised rosy little palm, with lightning-swift motion, fluttered the hand of her teacher.
The pistol sank from its position. With a lightning-swift motion Larry wrenched it from Barney's hand. "Guess I'd better have it, after all," he said, slipping it into a pocket. "Keep you out of temptation."
Gompachi, seeing his companion's discomfiture, attacked the beggar, who, drawing a sword from his staff, made such lightning-swift passes that, crippled though he was, and unable to move his legs freely, Gompachi could not overpower him; and although Seibei crawled out of the ditch and came to his assistance, the beggar, nothing daunted, dealt his blows about him to such good purpose that he wounded Seibei in the temple and arm.
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