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She made no further remark, but sat clasping and unclasping her nervous hands, as powerless against the desperate languor assailing her as she had been against the gust of passion.
Immediately the rest took up the mocking cries, to the evident distress of poor Wun Sing, who stood in the background, his face yellower than common and his hands clasping and unclasping nervously. But neither cat-calls, crowings, nor cacklings, coaxed the invisible fowl from her palace-like retreat.
Here suddenly unclasping his hands, he struck one of them against his forehead, and continued "Wretch! who made thee quicksighted in the councils of thy Maker? Deliverance from mortal fetters is awarded to this being, and thou art the minister of this decree." So saying, Wieland advanced towards me. His words and his motions were without meaning, except on one supposition.
I can do almost as much as Bridget, and you won't have to pay me either. I shall only be paying you." Unclasping the handsome bracelet which had been purchased with a portion of the remaining one hundred and fifty dollars, Eugenia, ere her mother had time to reply, exclaimed: "That is a capital idea! I wonder how you happened to be so thoughtful."
We stood so in silence, she with bent head and fingers clasping and unclasping, I leaning against the wall and staring at her, for what seemed a long time. At least I had time to grow impatient, when she faced me again, and all my irritation vanished in a gasp of admiration. Oh, she was beautiful, and of a sweetness most alluring and fatal!
"No, no, no," she murmured, shrinking from me; and finding that it must be as she wished, I reluctantly agreed. Before I had waited long, she appeared at the trysting-place, and stood before me, as on a former occasion, on that same spot of clean yellow sand, clasping and unclasping her fingers, troubled in mind even then.
Brenton was standing near the window, and she appeared to be very calm and collected, but her fingers twitched nervously, clasping and unclasping each other. Her modest dress of black was certainly a very becoming one. George thought he had never seen a woman so beautiful. As she was standing up, she evidently intended the interview to be a short one.
"Where is she?" said Romola, giving him the money, and unclasping the necklace from the basket in joyful agitation. "Outside the gate there, at the other end of the Borgo, at old Sibilla Manetti's: anybody will tell you which is the house." Romola went along with winged feet, blessing that incident of the Carnival which had made her learn by heart the appearance of this necklace.
Belden, clasping and unclasping her hands, met my gaze with one full of the most apprehensive doubt. "You will never believe me," she cried; "but I don't know what Hannah knew. I am in utter ignorance of what she saw or heard on that fatal night; she never told, and I never asked.
Furious at his defeat, the wizard snatched the cover from the shield, and Bradamante, knowing full well what was wont to follow, sank heavily on the ground. At this the wizard covered his shield once more, and guided his steed swiftly to where the maiden lay. After that, unclasping a chain from his body, he bent down to find her.
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