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The door banged, and again the house in the dunes shuddered as the storm fell upon it with momentarily trebled ferocity; as if, cheated of its foreordained prey, it would rend apart his frail refuge to regain him. Three paces within the room Amber paused, waiting for his eyes to adjust themselves to the light.
Rosemary and Floyd would not have had a chance had they been able to turn their horses and make a bolt for it. So they must ride on. They were too weary to talk now, they could only hope for the best. When would the rescuers come? A halt was made at noon, and some coarse food was passed to the captives. Rosemary shuddered at it and turned away. "You must eat," Floyd told her.
"Come," said Andrea, with sufficient nerve for his servant not to perceive his agitation, "what do you want? Speak quickly, friend." The man said, in a low voice: "I wish I wish you to spare me the walk back to Paris. I am very tired, and as I have not eaten so good a dinner as you, I can scarcely stand." The young man shuddered at this strange familiarity.
"I hope you didn't suffer any more from hunger in the woods when Willet, the Onondaga and I let you go." The spy came closer, and his look was so full of venom that young Lennox, despite himself, shuddered. "Time makes all things even," he said. "I don't forget how you and your friends held me in your power in the forest, but here you are a prisoner. I have a good chance to make the score even."
"I know not who can have uttered the cry," said the king, "but the noise is easily understood. Do you know that I am to be beheaded outside this window? Well, these boards you hear unloaded are the posts and planks to build my scaffold. Some workmen must have fallen underneath them and been hurt." Aramis shuddered in spite of himself.
It was through her that the father had always known most of the actions and tendencies of his daughter. In the mean time the strange adventure on The Mountain had brought the young master into new relations with Elsie. She had led him out of, danger; perhaps saved him from death by the strange power she exerted. He was grateful, and yet shuddered at the recollection of the whole scene.
And, with a laugh, she touched her Norman with the whip, and I kept Lizette pounding after her, until she pulled up, flushed and hot, near the trees, beside which the Mable purled past. "Beaten again," she said as I came up. "It is my fate." And, pulling up, I pointed to the river. "Do you remember this river, mademoiselle?" "The Mable!" And she shuddered.
"You ought to have been a poet not a doctor, Mr. Faber!" The jar of her apparent coolness brought him back with a shock to the commonplace. He almost shuddered. It was like a gust of icy wind piercing a summer night. "I trust the doctor can rule the poet," he said, recovering his self-possession with an effort, and rising. "The doctor ought at least to keep the poet from falsehood.
Little Olga shuddered from head to foot; she feared her father, and at the same time was so sorry for him. But pity got the upper hand. She clung to him, wetting him with her tears. Her father raised his hand, wishing to make the sign of the cross once more over the little head which lay on his breast, but could not complete the gesture.
Where would she stay and what would become of her? No doubt, as the officer had remarked, such a girl would easily become the prey of the unscrupulous, and at this thought Dagmar shuddered. What dreadful things always happen to runaway girls in the movies? Again the standard asserted its power. Next moment the opening door announced Mrs. Cosgrove was back, and Dagmar had "cleaned her plate."
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