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Fate, Destiny, Providence whatever you like has thrown you in my way, and help me you must and shall!" "Madame, madame I what are you saying? How can I help you?" "There is but one way this!" She held up in the pale ray of the lamp, something she drew from the folds of her dress, that glistened blue, and bright, and steelly in the gloom. "A dagger!" he exclaimed, with a shudder, and a recoil.
But the looks of the earl remained cold and unmoved, and not the least compassion was aroused in him for his poor daughter, now penetrated with anguish. "Arise," said he, in a hard, steelly voice.
I never evaded the morning salute, which Paulina would slip when she could; nor was a certain little manner of still disdain a weapon known in my armoury of defence; whereas, Paulina always kept it clear, fine, and bright, and any rough German sally called forth at once its steelly glisten.
I had seen acting before, but never anything like this: never anything which astonished Hope and hushed Desire; which outstripped Impulse and paled Conception; which, instead of merely irritating imagination with the thought of what might be done, at the same time fevering the nerves because it was not done, disclosed power like a deep, swollen winter river, thundering in cataract, and bearing the soul, like a leaf, on the steep and steelly sweep of its descent.
And he looked the old man in the eyes with a steady, steelly glance which had nothing to do with the words he had just uttered, but was the challenge of a conquering spirit. The Young Doctor had acted with an almost uncanny prescience.
Sign, and you live." The eyes of the men had fastened the fierce, black, eager ones of the Mexican and the steelly gray ones of the Anglo-Saxon. There was the rigor of battle in that gaze, the grinding of rapier on rapier. Gordon was a prisoner in the hands of his enemy. He lay exhausted from a terrible beating. That issues of life and death hung in the balance a child might have guessed.
"I wish I could go there," said Tommy, his eyes gazing across the long, white glistening fields with the dark border of the woodland beyond and the rich saffron of the winter sky above the tree-tops stretching across in a border below the steelly white of the upper heavens. "What would you do?" asked his father. "Hunt polar bears," said Tommy promptly.
"And he looked the old man in the eyes with a steady, steelly glance which had nothing to do with the words he had just uttered, but was the challenge of a conquering spirit. The Young Doctor had acted with an almost uncanny prescience.
The memory of the clear water, sparkling over its saffron stain, came back to me as the strongest image connected with the place; and it struck me that you might not be unwilling, to-night, to think a little over the full significance of that saffron stain, and of the power, in other ways and other functions, of the steelly element to which so many here owe returning strength and life; chief as it has been always, and is yet more and more markedly so day by day, among the precious gifts of the earth.
"Not so. I spare you because you save my brother's life after he shoot at you. But I exact conditions. So?" The eyes of the miner had grown hard and steelly. The lids had closed on them so that only slits were open. "Let's hear them." "First, that you give what is called word of honor not to push any charges against those taking you prisoner." "Pass that for the present," ordered Dick curtly.
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