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A low moaning whimper stirred her lips; then the hand tight-clenched over the knob slackened. She ran swiftly across to him. "What is it, dear?" Her voice broke, husky with fright and pity. "Tell me what is the matter? Won't it come right tonight?" With shaking hands she leaned over him, smoothing the shining hair.
Send down somethin' with a mustache, will I? There's not a man in the yard that's a match for me, an' ye know it. Let one of 'em try that." Her uplifted fist, tight-clenched, shot past Lathers's ear. A quick blow, a plank knocked clear of its fastenings, and a flood of daylight broke in behind Lathers's head!
So here lay I in sweating, breathless expectation of I knew not what, my ears on the stretch, my manacled hands tight-clenched and every nerve a-tingle with this dreadful uncertainty.
There was the old grisly four-post bedstead, without hangings, and with a jail-like upper rim of iron and spikes; and there was the old patch-work counterpane. There was the tight-clenched old bureau, receding atop like a bad and secret forehead; there was the cumbersome old table with twisted legs, at the bed-side; and there was the box upon it, in which the will had lain.
Caleb felt as a man feels who tries to run in a nightmare and cannot make his feet obey the commands of his brain. It was only when Barbara Allison dropped desperately to her knees beside the huddle of arms and legs and straining bodies and began to beat with tight-clenched little hands upon Steve's tousled head, that the power of action returned to him.
Brissenden half rose from his chair as he spoke, as if with the intention of departing to the restaurant forthwith. Martin's fists were tight-clenched, and his blood was drumming in his temples. "Bosco! He eats 'em alive! Eats 'em alive!" Brissenden exclaimed, imitating the spieler of a locally famous snake-eater.
One of them paused and looked back as if loath to leave the spot until certain of his work. Side by side Blake and O'Connell raced towards the Chief, whom they saw lurching uncertainly along the banquette ahead of them. The detective was cursing; Blake sobbed through his tight-clenched teeth. Donnelly was down when they reached him, and his empty revolver lay by his side.
The bit of a card fluttered to the floor as both her tight-clenched fists lifted toward her throat. The softest of pitying little moans came quavering from her lips. She needed no explanation of what that suddenly limp body meant! And she understood better now, too, that untouched lump of clay upon the boards beside his bowed head. John Anderson's long task was finished.
"To God!" cried Walkyn, his eyes wild, his hands tight-clenched, "to God! ha! master, ye left him to God on a time and because of thee, I I that had my dagger at his rogue's throat I, yearning to slay him, did but mark him i' the brow aye, forsooth, we left him to God and lo! to-day he burneth, he slayeth and hangeth as was ever his wont "
I do swear never to look upon a woman to love " "Master master!" BELTANE. "Nor to suffer woman's love to come 'twixt me and my duty " "O master, swear it not swear it not " BELTANE. "Nor shall aught let or stay me until Pentavalon win to freedom or my poor soul return whence it came. And this do I swear to the ears of God!" Now turned he to Roger, bright-eyed and with hands tight-clenched.
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