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"It's very easy for you to talk, isn't it?" cried Mrs. Bishop, turning on him. "I like the way you all sit around like lumps and do nothing, and then tell me how I ought to have done it. John, have the carriage around at once." She turned tensely to Orde. "I hope you'll excuse me," she said very briefly; "I have something very important to attend to." Carroll had also risen.
Thus protected he lay down in the center of his warning spiderweb and spent a restless night, half awake, waiting tensely for the bells to ring. In the morning the march continued and they came to the barrier cairn, and when the slaves stopped Jason urged them past it. They did this happily, looking forward to witnessing a good fight for possession of the violated territory.
When he spoke, his voice was so deep and resonant that it was as though it issued from a barrel rather than from the breast of a human being. "How now, my hearty!" cried he, in stentorian tones, so loud that they seemed to stun the tensely drawn drums of our hero's ears. "How now, my hearty! What's to-do here? Who is shooting pistols at this hour of the night?"
"You would think the kidnappers, would rather deal with you here. They run much more chance of being caught in New York than up here. It seems " He stopped and looked curiously at Matthews. The latter was staring intently out upon the water. Without taking his eyes from the object that engaged his rapt attention, he said tensely: "Someone give me the binoculars, quick!"
"Watch me now and wait for my whistle." He turned away and then paused to call back softly, "Spaceman's luck, Tom." "Same to you, Astro," replied Tom, and then crouched tensely in the shadows. The big cadet walked casually toward the sentry, who spotted him immediately and brought his gun up sharply, calling a challenge in the Venusian tongue. "A friend," replied Astro in the same dialect.
No, it was simply because she had a very definite purpose which she wished to accomplish without interruption or opposition. The next instant and she had paused outside a closed door and stood listening tensely. There were no noises inside, no voices, nor the stir of any person moving about. Betty put her hand on the knob and opened it silently.
But it would blast an Erentz fabric suit, no doubt of that. Like a lightning bolt, it would kill its flashing free stream of electrons shocking the heart, bringing instant death. I whispered, "We must smash that before we leave! But first turn it on Miko, if he signals now." I was tensely watchful for that signal. The electronic projector obviously was not ready.
But the worst indication was them flowers she wore on her bosom every day Old Heck bought 'em!" he finished dramatically, leaning over and speaking tensely as though it pained him immeasurably to break the news to Parker while he fixed on Old Heck's rival a look he imagined was one of supreme pity. "Yeah, he had them sent up from Las Vegas," Bert added, picking up the cue and lying glibly.
Agnes de Lucines' pale face looked ethereal in this framework of white which covered her shoulders and the shawl crossed over her bosom: only her eyes, dark, appealing, filled with a glow of immeasurable despair, appeared tensely human and alive. "I had a letter this morning," she whispered, speaking very rapidly, "from citizen Heriot that awful man you know him?" "Yes, yes!"
They paused a moment to get their breath, after a stiff bit of climbing, and, as they stood there in the silence of the night, with the moon fitfully showing through the clouds, they suddenly heard a groan. "What's that?" whispered Ned, tensely. "It must be the man we're looking for," replied Jerry. "He's hurt. Where did the sound come from?" Ned pointed to a dark spot at the foot of the cliff.
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