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Updated: June 28, 2025
Wind the line quickly around the top of the stake as I pull it in." Euphemia knelt down and rapidly wound several yards of the slack cord around the stake. In a few moments it tightened again, jerking itself out of my hand. "There, now!" said Euphemia. "He is off again! You can never haul him in, now." "Just wait," I said.
She recognised Ida instantly; the colour rushed to her face; her hand tightened on her rein spasmodically; for a moment she felt inclined to turn aside, to ride away, escape from the girl she hated and loathed.
The feeling that he was unreal, that Rachel was unreal, rested in his thought. There was a mist about things that clung to them, that clung about the joyousness in his heart. "There's nothing else," he whispered. "Love is enough. It burns up everything else and leaves a mist." His arms tightened. "Erik dear, I'm afraid." His kiss brought a peace over her face. She had waited for it.
I felt some dreadful presence behind me a presence upon which the lifeless man and the cringing, snarling beast had set their eyes, a presence which had wiped the smile from the Judge's face and tightened every nerve and sinew in the dog's lean body.
He did not like him, and regarded him now as his most formidable rival. He was angry with him for galloping past and exciting his mare. Frou-Frou started into a gallop, her left foot forward, made two bounds, and fretting at the tightened reins, passed into a jolting trot, bumping her rider up and down. Cord, too, scowled, and followed Vronsky almost at a trot.
Deeper and deeper sank the sight. MacNair's fingers tightened their grip until the knuckles whitened and a huge shoulder hunched to throw its weight upon the arm. Slowly, very slowly, the sight moved across the upturned brow, tearing the flesh, rolling up the skin before its dull, broad edge.
He still had that tightened look around his mouth which spelled pain. "Pretty quick now we get you fixed up good," Swan told him cheerfully. "One mile more is all, and we get the horses and I make a good bed for you." He looked a signal, and Lorraine once more took up the stretcher. Another mile seemed a long way, light though Swan had made the load for her.
The woman's eyes seemed to cast a net about her, and to watch her struggle as it tightened. 'I don't understand you. I have nothing to do with your plots. She strung her muscles and stood up; but Mrs. Strangeways, scarcely moving, still looked at her with baleful directness. 'It would be a shame to lose our sport for want of a little money. I must ask you to help, really. 'I can't and won't.
Clarence Sidwell Chad, his friends called him leaned farther back in the big wicker chair, with an involuntary motion adjusted his well-creased trousers so there might be no tension at the knees, and looked across the tiny separating table at his vis-a-vis, while his eyelids whimsically tightened. "Well," he queried, "what do you think of it?"
"He doesn't look so dangerous," Kennon said. "Watch it!" Douglas warned. "Don't get too close!" But the warning was too late. Kennon touched the bars, and as he did, the Lani moved with fluid speed, one huge hand clutching Kennon's sleeve and pulling him against the bars while the other darted for his throat. Fingers bit into Kennon's neck and tightened in a viselike grip.
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