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That was his one incautious moment, but I stood docile while he removed the manacle, and then as he straightened up, loosely holding the chain, I sprang back, wrenching it from his grasp. He was instantly after me, but I had put enough space between us to swing the metal weight over my head.
There he sat, conscious and intelligent, but slouching, disorganized, and indifferent. The chairman turned sharply to the guard. "Why did you manacle this man," he demanded, "when he is evidently so weak, and when none of the others were manacled?" "Why, sir," stammered the guard, "surely you know who this man is: he is the most dangerous and desperate " "We know all about that.
I am a convert to you; I swear it on this white hand. Ah! how can I relinquish it, pretty fluttering prisoner?" "Oh, please " "Stay a while." "No! please, sir " "While I fetter thee with a worthy manacle." Sir Charles slipped a diamond ring of great value upon his pretty prisoner. "La, sir, how pretty!" cried innocence.
'In vain do we boast of the enlightened eighteenth century, and conceitedly talk as if human reason had not a manacle left about her, but that philosophy had broken down all the strongholds of prejudice, ignorance, and superstition; and yet, at this very time, Mesmer has got a hundred thousand pounds by animal magnetism in Paris, and Mainaduc is getting as much in London.
Lucy's eyes were upon Ryder's hands; she saw the handcuff fall from one, saw him swing with a sudden, swift movement of the right arm, and the heavy manacle struck the trooper at his side on the temple, and the man fell without a groan. Then Ryder made a dash for the French window, and was gone before a hand could be raised to stay him.
While Petrak held the spoke of the wheel with one hand, he rasped at the iron upon it with a file, cutting away the heavy manacle. Riggs and I took turns at the scuttle, and saw Thirkle and Buckrow and Long Jim carry up a dozen or more sacks. Some were put in the second boat, farther aft and out of the range of our vision, hidden as it was from us by the corner of the superstructure.
"See, a band of gold with a knot of pearls, a 'manacle of love, as the great English poet calls it, secured by purity of purpose." As she fastened the brooch in her bosom, she added, "I am so rich in birthday gifts that I am bankrupt in thanks; pray believe that is the reason I thank you so poorly." The countess impatiently interrupted this conversation by summoning Maurice to her side.
We must awake before they manacle us in our sleep. Woe to those who then oppose us! . . ." Desnoyers felt obliged to reply to this arrogance. He had never seen the iron circle of which the Germans were complaining. The nations were merely unwilling to continue living, unsuspecting and inactive, before boundless German ambition.
"My dear Gault," the doctor went on, "if my wrist had been gripped in an iron manacle screwed tight by a locksmith, I should not have felt the bracelet of metal so hard as that woman's fingers; her hand was of unyielding steel, and I am convinced that she could have crushed my bones and broken my hand from the wrist.
Hart held by it, but Grant carried bigger guns in real knowledge of the artist's limitations as well as his privileges. Hart was the first to notice the newcomer's presence, and greeted him joyously. "Come along, Robinson, and manacle this reprobate," he shouted. "He's nothing but a narrow-minded pre-Rafaelite. A period in prison will dust the cobwebs out of his attic."
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