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Suddenly she seemed to emerge to her own consciousness, upon a summit from which she could look down upon the turmoil in herself and beyond it, to where he stood. "Don't make a mistake," she said, "don't." She thrust her hand for a fraction of an instant toward him, and then swiftly withdrew it, gathering herself together to meet what he might say. What he did say was simple, and easy to hear.
It was built flush against the house on the right. At the corner the lads again turned and retraced their steps. "I'm going to try the door," said Jack. "You slink back in that dark alleyway until you hear from me." Frank signified that he understood, and passing the house, did as Jack had instructed, the latter mounting the steps quietly and swiftly.
"Oh, Yarmouth," she said, with withering scorn. Mr. Chalk flushed deeper than before. "I wasn't thinking of such things," he declared. "What things?" said his wife, swiftly. "The the things you're alluding to," said the harassed Mr. Chalk. "Ah!" said his wife, with a toss of her head.
The room grew dim and the walls themselves seemed to whirl swiftly about me as, with great difficulty, I groped my way back to the library, where I stood gazing at that strange counterpart of myself, till, under the growing horror of the situation, it seemed to my benumbed senses as though I were some disembodied spirit hovering above his own corpse.
It rose heavily, and travelling with the fresh wind, the propellers whirling swiftly, it crashed into the trees at the other side of the enclosure. The aeronaut had, against his better judgment, gone with the wind rather than against it, so the power of the propeller was added to the force of the breeze, and the trees were encountered before the ship could rise sufficiently to clear them.
I thought of a statement in a composition by one of my pupils about ghosts: 'Their greatest Peculiarity is that They have no feet. Then I jumped again, for the thing, quite soundlessly but very swiftly, made through the air at me.
At this confirmation of my fears, I was overcome with despair; and could only look, voicelessly, across the quiet plains of the silent sea. How swiftly the darkness spread across the face of the White Orb. Yet, in reality, the time must have been long, beyond human comprehension. At last, only a crescent of pale fire, lit the, now dim, Sea of Sleep.
Beyle, for instance, was capable of writing, in one of those queer epitaphs of himself which he was constantly composing, the high-falutin' words 'Il respecta un seul homme: Napoléon'; and yet, as he wrote them, he must have remembered well enough that when he met Napoleon face to face his unabashed scrutiny had detected swiftly that the man was a play-actor, and a vulgar one at that.
Swiftly they gained their feet, and, drawing their swords, dealt each other great blows; and thus they contended fiercely for some while.
Pretty Pierre stood still, and thought for a while. At last he spoke aloud: "Well, I shall do it, now I have him so!" And he opened and shut his hand swiftly and firmly. He moved on, avoiding the more habited parts of the place, and by a roundabout came to a house standing very close to the bank of the river. He went softly to the door and listened. Light shone through the curtain of a window.
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