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Our sail, fortunately, required but little attention, so that my whole ship's company were at liberty to work at the pumps, which was very necessary, as, whenever they relaxed in their efforts, the water again rapidly gained on us. Miss Alice, being of no assistance to them, came and stood by me to help me to steer the ship, which, I assured her, was very kind of her.
The bravo waited his horse grazed the moon came forth, stealing through the trees, bringing into fantastic light the melancholy old dwelling- house the yet more melancholy new pile. Jasper was not, as we have seen, without certain superstitious fancies, and they had grown on him more of late as his brain had become chronically heated and his nerves relaxed by pain.
She appeared so childlike and unaffected, and her joyous, rippling laughter proved so contagious, that unconsciously the extra years which a few moments before seemed to have been added to his life dropped away; the grave, tense lines of his face relaxed, and before he was aware he was laughing heartily at the account of some school-girl escapade or at some tricks performed by Duke for his especial entertainment.
The feeble grasp that his shaken intellect kept of the events of the night relaxed, the disguised Lance, the story of his son, the murder, slipped into nothingness; there remained only the one idea, his nightly watch by the diamond pit.
Walter did not need any incitement to labour; but, though he was not aware of it, while he was talking he had actually relaxed his efforts. People, when talking, too often forget to do. There is no lack of talkers in the world. Doers are much rarer. Their united exertions made the raft move at a considerable rate through the water.
They passed the mouths of great rivers to right and to left, but they did not know their names, nor whence they came. The air grew much warmer and they were very glad indeed now that they had the sail, which, allied with the current, carried them on as fast as they wished. Shif'less Sol lay lazily under the sail, his limbs relaxed, and his face a picture of content.
Mordaunt hurriedly set free her wrists. His pale face flushed a dark, flaming red when she shrank from his touch as if he were a viper. After they had traveled what seemed to Helen many miles, the vigilance of the leaders relaxed. On the banks of the willow-skirted stream the Indian guide halted them, and proceeded on alone to disappear in a green thicket.
But his relief was short-lived, for in the last half-second his guard had relaxed. Bryce said: "Why did Bradby want to kill you, Mr. Cumshaw?" The quick yet calm question, covering as it did the one episode of which nobody but the two participants could possibly have any knowledge, startled Cumshaw. For once his impassive face showed signs of fear, and his eyes became those of a hunted man.
'Things are not going too well, then? said Selwyn, glancing anxiously towards Durwent, and wondering how he could get rid of the garrulous artist. 'Not going well? Smyth straightened his right leg and relaxed the left one. 'In the last three weeks a pair of pyjamas, my other coat, two borrowed umbrellas, and a set of cuff-links have gone.
The voice replied, 'Very well; but it will go ill with you if you fail to keep your promise. Then the claws relaxed their hold, and the face disappeared in the depths. The King drew his chin out of the water, and shook himself like a dog; then he mounted his horse and rode thoughtfully home with his retinue.
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