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Others there were who were sick of the world and wished "to be well out of it" as they said to themselves. Some had been cruelly injured, and desire of life was dead in them; others had given injury, and remorse had slain peace. Others still there were who, having done evil all their lives, knew that they could not retrace their steps, and yet shrank from a continuance of the old bad things.
"I warn you," said Sir Bunny Bunny, "that by continuing to act as you are doing, you are exposing yourself to misconstruction " Julian Wemyss, who had been looking out of the window, turned suddenly and caught his eye. Old Sir Bunny was no coward, but he shrank from the look of Julian Wemyss as if it had been a knife at his breast.
He would have had to go such a little way only as far as her outstretched arms. She shrank back from the window, her head bowed. It had been her privilege as a woman to be wiser than he. She should have known! Now the thought wrenched like a physical pain there was nothing left to her but renunciation. She must help him to be free. She must force him free. She owed that to him and to herself.
Of rough and tumble fighting with fists they knew nothing as indeed not many people do in this century, even on Earth. The result of it all was that they shrank back when I charged into them, and not a blow was struck, even when I caught up the nearest figure in my path, swung it over my shoulder, and tore back to the ladder. In two shakes I was standing on the deck again, my prisoner all safe.
Blanche, eploree, went up to her mother; but Lady Clavering shrank from her with a sort of terror. "Don't touch me," she said; "you've no heart; you never had. I see all now. I see why that coward was going to give up his place in Parliament to Arthur; yes, that coward! and why you threatened that you would make me give you half Frank's fortune.
He made a sudden involuntary movement as if he would call them back, and for the first time his faithful hiding-place, strained beyond silent endurance, betrayed him with a loud rustle of shaken branches. Ste. Marie shrank back, his heart in his throat. It was too late to retreat now down the tree. The damage was already done.
But as each impaled victim shrank with agonized terror from the torture, Mr. Gitemthruet would turn round to Alaric and assure him that they were going on well, quite as well as he had expected. Mr. Chaffanbrass was really exerting himself; and when Mr. Chaffanbrass did really exert himself he rarely failed.
Bulstrode, who at the end of his speech had cast his eyes on the floor, now raised them with an examining glance, which Will met fully, saying "I suppose you did know of my mother's existence, and knew where she might have been found." Bulstrode shrank there was a visible quivering in his face and hands.
He groped his way back to the window and closed it, drawing the curtain tight down over it. Then he struck a match and held it above his head. At the flash of light the girl dropped his hand and shrank back in sudden trepidation. So long as he remained in the shadows he had been to her only a power without any more definite personality than that of sex.
Then she was startled to see him turn and raise his clenched fist in the air, his lips moving convulsively, and she shrank from what was written on his face when he again came softly out and mounted his horse. Ten minutes later she watched a cloud of dust blotting the horizon on the crest of the little rise to the north.
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