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As the chain tightened, the gentlemen, the officers included, got upon the bows and looked anxiously at the effect of each heave; for it was a nervous thing to be stranded on such a coast, even after all that had occurred. "She winks, by George!" cried the captain; "heave together, men, and you will stir the sand!"
The matron laughed excitedly, as she brushed all stray hairs out of her eyes and tightened her apron for action. "It will become a great boon to her. Since the Englishman's death, she has been no better than a crazy Brynhild. To take her out into the world and entertain her with new sights, it will be the saving of her!
Then when I go on that yachting cruise she can go to some camp in the mountains there are ever so many good ones. And next fall I can put her into a school. She's too old to go on living as you are living." Now the world had turned upside down! Keineth pressed suddenly close to her father. He tightened the clasp of her arm. "Wait a moment, sister. We have two or three days to talk this over.
However, a man makes a hard struggle for life, so I tightened my belt, and set to work with such good will, that I was soon a long way ahead of them, and got out of sight at a place where the river takes a number of bends and is full of small islands.
One among them, large and dominant, with a playful voice of brass, cried out: 'And how do you do, Mrs. Judith Marsett ha? Beautiful morning? Mrs. Marsett's figure tightened; she rode stonily erect, looked level ahead. Her woman's red mouth was shut fast on a fighting underlip. 'He did not salute you, Nesta remarked, to justify her for not having responded.
His face was firm, handsome and open, although at present a wish to escape observation caused the hazel eyes to dart here and there restlessly, while the mouth tightened in an aspect of sternness. This air of wild resolution was heightened by the cowboy's ordinary garments, and the cowboy's indispensable belt well-stocked with weapons.
"There's a way out of every difficulty if one has the wit to find it. Keep cool, my dear girl! If you let yourself go, you will give your own show away." "I know! I know!" gasped Chris. "But what can I do? It would kill me if Trevor knew!" Rupert's arm tightened protectingly about her. At least they stood by each other, these Wyndhams. "Then Trevor mustn't know," he rejoined.
Perhaps the gesture meant nothing, but a keen observer would have noticed that his arm did not move with the freedom that one would expect of a man of his frame and build. As he rubbed his shoulder his eyes followed the butler up the stairs and his lips tightened. He watched him until he was out of sight, then turned and entered the library.
Where she with supreme tact had loosened the screws so that the great authority vested in her might not press too heavily upon the nation, he tightened them.
"You don't need to do that," he assured the fellow who had made the arrest, but, instead of heeding his words, the men on each side of the Jamaican twisted stoutly, forcing the black boy to cry out in pain. He hung back, protesting: "All right, sar, I'll come. I'll come." But again they tightened their instruments of torture, and their victim began to struggle.
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