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He struck out wildly, desperately; once or twice he thought he felt his feet touch the bottom, only to find himself powerlessly dragged back towards the sea. With a final superhuman effort he gained at last a foothold on the muddy strand, and, half scrambling, half crawling, sank exhaustedly beside the fisherman's net. But the fisherman was gone!
These conferences had frequently assumed a very stormy character, and often, during the debates, Bonaparte's voice had resounded in thundering tones, and flashes of anger had burst forth from his eyes. But the Austrian plenipotentiaries had not been struck by them. The flashes from the great chieftain's eyes had recoiled powerlessly from their imperturbable smile.
"You and I have a debt to pay before we die, Stafford," he said. Stafford's hand touched his coldly and powerlessly. "I have nothing against the Rajah," he said hoarsely. "I can not carry out a revenge against the son " Colonel Carmichael interrupted him with a hard laugh. "They are all of a piece," he said. "Say what you will, Nicholson, Nehal Singh is a traitor. We were fools to trust him.
Through smoke and steam he looked up at the conning-tower, where he knew the Prince-Admiral was. Then he saw it no more, for suddenly a thick, black cloud overspread his eyes. He had only felt a slight blow in his breast, but no pain. He tried to lift his hand to the place where he had been hit, but it sank powerlessly. It seemed as if he were being turned round in a circle by an invisible hand.
Meantime some scheme might be found for arranging the religious differences, more effective than any he had been able to devise. His appeal seems to have glanced powerlessly upon the iron reticence of Maurice, and the Advocate took his departure disheartened.
But it could not save him from a severe wound in the back, where the axe of the Indian fell heavily, as his arm dropped powerlessly by his side never to be raised again.
Already embittered and exasperated faces were confronting each other, and here and there clinched fists were seen, threatening to bring a shouting neighbor to silence by the use of violence. The queen, trembling in every limb, had let her head fall powerlessly on her breast, in order that no one might see the tears which ran from her eyes over her death-like cheeks.
Meantime some scheme might be found for arranging the religious differences, more effective than any he had been able to devise. His appeal seems to have glanced powerlessly upon the iron reticence of Maurice, and the Advocate took his departure disheartened.
Her large dark eyes flashed powerlessly; her shape appeared to have narrowed; her tongue, too, was a feeble penitent. 'You ask a creature to recall her acts of insanity. 'There must be some signification in your words, I suppose. 'I will tell you as clearly as I can. You have the right to be my judge. I was in extremity that is, I saw no means . . . I could not write: it was ruin coming.
As in a dream, Yanson resisted bluntly, powerlessly, and was dragged out of the car silently. They descended the steps of the station. "Are we to walk?" asked some one almost cheerily. "It isn't far now," answered another, also cheerily. Then they walked in a large, black, silent crowd amid the forest, along a rough, wet and soft spring road.
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