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From the stern, ten feet from the cabin door, the cabin itself was swallowed up and invisible. With the steady, swinging motion of the riverman he began bailing. So regular became his movements that they ran in a sort of rhythmic accompaniment to his thoughts. The monotonous splash, splash, splash of the outflung pails of water assumed, after a few minutes, the character of a mechanical thing.
The little loop narrowed it had reached as far as sixty feet of rawhide could reach and have any loop at all. It sank, and caught the outflung head of the black horse; slid back swiftly and caught José as the horse lunged and swung short around; tightened and pressed José's cheek hard against the black mane as the rawhide drew tight across the back of his neck.
A man sat at the little table, his head dropped in his outflung arms. Cornelius Allendyce knew it was Jimmie. Another man stood over him, his face flushed with impatience. "Mr. Tony," thought the lawyer. He was evidently just drawing breath after a heated argument. "Pardon my intrusion, gentlemen. I knocked but I do not think you heard me."
She lifted a tortured face. "Oh, don't you see," she said piteously, "how impossible it is for me? Don't don't say any more!" "I won't," said Tudor. He took the outflung hands and held them closely, restrainingly, soothingly. "I won't," he said again. "Forgive me for saying so much! Poor girl! Poor girl!" His lips quivered a little as he said it, but his hold was full of sustaining strength.
Now, at last, Helena von Ritz knows why she was born, to what end! I have a work to do, and, yes, I see it now my journey to America after all was part of the plan of fate. I have learned much through you, Monsieur." Hurriedly she turned and left me, passing through the heavy draperies which cut off the room where stood the great satin couch. I saw her cast herself there, her arms outflung.
Then, creature of moods and impulse that she was, she turned on him spontaneously, both hands outflung. "Mon Dieu, what a friend you have been to us both! Thank you a thousand times, for everything. I know you hate it. But if I kept it in any longer, I should burst!" "Just as well you let it out, then," Desmond answered, laughing, and grasping the proffered hands. "I must be off now.
But the earth was the one thing that would receive Jake unprotestingly. He lay on his face, his arms outflung, and from the gaping hole between his shoulders a dark stream welled. The indifferent earth, the uncaring grass, received it. The wind came out of the swamp on mincing feet and danced over him, and fluttered his torn shirt-sleeve.
The uncurling fists were outflung passionately. "I can't! I can't!" cried Pemrose Lorry, choking upon her own wishbone. "I I'm not in the humor for it for foolery! I must go on right on and search! This this is the shortest trail down the mountain, if it's the roughest I know that!" She looked desperately at old Andrew.
Sara could sense it a tormented flame shut in a casing of steel and she was swept by a torrent of uttermost pity and compassion. "Garth! Garth! But there must have been some explanation! . . . You weren't in your right senses at the moment. Ah! Tell me " She broke off, her voice failing her, her arms outflung in a passion of entreaty.
Light edged the heavy fold of the portière curtain and made a pool upon the carpet. She held her breath as she stole to the door, and, trembling, looked in. He was there, kneeling by the bed. His heavily-shouldered black figure made a blotch upon the dainty white and azure draperies; his arms were outflung upon the silken counterpane.
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