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'Wait! I think, 'I will cheat her! I will go nowhere! and I instantly sat down on the ground. The old woman stands behind, two paces from me. I do not hear her, but I feel she is there. And suddenly I see the blur of darkness in the distance is floating, creeping of itself towards me! God! I look round again ... the old woman looks straight at me, and her toothless mouth is twisted in a grin.
He had to spring high to enter the little hole at all; there was no way to dodge the flames outside. But he might knock the logs apart and put the fire out. There was only a distance of two paces between him and the door, but he seemed to have difficulty in making these. He reeled against the wall.
Rupert went to the water barrel, and rolled it to the bulwarks at the point towards which the boat was making. The marquis stooped behind the bulwarks, a few paces distant, with the dummy. "Now!" Rupert said, stooping over the barrel, as the boat made a dash at the side. The marquis lifted the dummy, and five or six muskets were simultaneously discharged.
Poor Jr. had not spoken more than twice since he had read me this kind invitation, but now I heard a low exclamation from him, which let me know who was approaching; and that foolish trembling got hold of me again as I turned. Mrs. Landry came first, with outstretched hand, making some talk excusing delay; and, after a few paces, followed the loveliest of all the world.
"My friend is 'de la premiere force." "That must be something impudent, from your looks, Mr. Trevanion. Isn't it a thousand pities I can't speak French?" "What say you, then, to twelve paces? Fire together, and two shots each, if the first fire be inconclusive," said Trevanion.
Slowly and carefully he thrust out one foot and drew the other to it, feeling with his hands the while, till they came in contact with a wall that was roughly plastered. That was something tangible; and gradually feeling his way along this he came to an angle in the wall, starting off in another direction. This he traced, and at the end of a few paces came to another angle.
But he, stepping three paces back, replied, "Ah, woman of the court and wicked heart, thou lovest, then, thy face better than thy lover." She turned pale, and humbly held up her face, for she understood that at this moment her past perfidy wronged her present love. With a single blow Angelo slashed her face, then left her house, and quitted the country.
On board this steamboat, there were two young gentlemen, with shirt-collars reversed as usual, and armed with very big walking- sticks; who planted two seats in the middle of the deck, at a distance of some four paces apart; took out their tobacco-boxes; and sat down opposite each other, to chew.
I once had an opportunity of witnessing an elephant's strength exerted in his search for this small fruit. We had not long been concealed, when I heard a peculiar noise in the thick forest that denoted the approach of elephants. We at once retreated to some rising ground about 150 paces distant, as our small rifles would have been useless against such heavy game.
Then he glanced up and saw the rows of interested, excited faces; and that devil-may-care, rollicking boyishness which made him so adored came over him, and he laughed up at them, and waved his hand: and Zara's rage turned to wild excitement, too. There would be the walk across the hall of sixty paces, and then he would kiss her. What would it be like?
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