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The more steadily we jog along between the rails, the better it is for us." "Oh, I don't intend to remain in the ministry," declared Theron. The statement seemed to him a little bald, now that he had made it; and as his companion lifted his brows in surprise, he added stumblingly: "That is, as I feel now, it seems to me impossible that I should remain much longer.
I asked, stumblingly. "Yes, Johnnie, you may kiss me".... "Why, you dear child, you ... you kiss just like a small boy ..." in a lower voice, "can it be possible that you, with all your tramping, your knowledge of life in books, of people? I bent my head, ashamed, silently acknowledging my inexperience of women.
And then, while a roar like all the thunders of Earth reverberated deafeningly through the rock room, the claws that gripped him relaxed their hold. He fell, nor felt the impact of his fall. He came to his feet, ran stumblingly to the edge of the nearest pit where he threw his arms about the body of a girl and dragged her to safety.
Tom pored over the big map, jotting down assignments and stumblingly dictated brief letters which Miss Ellison's readier skill turned out in improved form. He was sorry that it was not Friday so that he might go to troop meeting that night. It was only Tuesday and so there were three long, barren nights ahead of him, and to him they seemed like twenty nights.
He struggled frantically to speak to her as she leaned closer, yet closer, and softly but firmly laid lips of pulsing sweetness on his in a deliberate kiss. The Harvester was on his feet now. Belshazzar shrank into the shadows. "Come back!" cried the man. "Come back! For the love of mercy, where are you?" He ran stumblingly toward the lake.
And then, on seeing who it was, she smiled wryly. "Is it forbidden to get in here?" she asked, still speaking in a heavy, dull way. "I didn't know it was," and stumblingly she stepped down out of the confessional. Varick scowled at her, and made no answer to her question.
But they walked like men half awake, and followed the innkeeper stumblingly; and mounted their horses clumsily, to the great merriment of the groom. It was now dark, and they knew not which way to turn. "I choose not another inn," said Humphrey, "though we bide supperless in the streets." "Then choose I," returned Hugo. And he rode off down the street with Humphrey close beside him.
Leaning sidewise against the gale, the little lantern-guided procession trudged along the sea-wall and stumblingly ascended the slippery path to the beacon on Brimstone. Sheltering the oil-soaked kindlings with his body, Jim scratched a match; and in a twinkling long tongues of smoky flame were streaming wildly to leeward. "Ah! They see us!"
There was no resource, now, no refuge.... Strength went out of her, and passive in a dream of evil darkness she felt herself being hurried, stumblingly, back through the secret corridors and the dark halls. There was no measure of time for Ryder in that walled coffin of death. The seconds seemed hours, the minutes ages.
"Jimmy," she said eagerly. Jimmy Challoner went forward with outstretched hand. "I hope you don't mind my coming again so soon; but I was bored thoroughly fed-up," he explained stumblingly. Christine looked radiant. She had not yet learned to disguise her true feelings. Jimmy was still holding her hand; she tried gently to free it. "Don't don't take it away," said Jimmy.
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