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Updated: May 8, 2025
The horses were coming down the lane. The sound of hoofs came nearer; Anthony's heart, as he crouched below the window, ready to spring up and over when the signal was given, beat in sick thumpings at the base of his throat, but with a fierce excitement and no fear. His hands clenched and unclenched. Mr. Buxton stood back a little, waiting; he must feign to be asleep at first.
But not with Hauck watching him, for Hauck was four fifths sober, and there was a depth to his cruel eyes which he did not like. He watched the effect of his words on Brokaw. The tenseness left his body, his hands unclenched slowly, his heavy jaw relaxed and David laughed softly. He felt that he was out of deep water now. This fellow, half filled with drink, was wonderfully credulous.
Ethne had unclenched her hands; the three feathers lay before his eyes upon the table. They could not be explained away; he wore "coward" like a blind man's label; besides, he could never make her understand. However, she wished for the explanation and had a right to it; she had been generous in asking for it, with a generosity not very common amongst women.
If you have any good plains-broke mules you will sell for cash, I can do business with you right now. If not, the sooner you leave this place the better." He lifted his small, shapely hand unclenched, his good-natured smile and gentlemanly bearing unchanged, but his low voice was stronger than all the growls of the crowd that fell back like whipped dogs.
The shining of his steel was terrible, as, rising on his stirrups, with high-lifted arm, he waved it three times in fiery circles over his head, as if to call up all his strength. Then, with a voice of thunder, he poured his charging shout, dreadful as the roar of the lion when, close up to his game, with hideous paws unclenched, he makes his last spring on the fat buffaloes of his chase.
Tell me, and let's settle it quietly." "Settle it quietly! When an injustice has been done that ought to be blazoned from East to West!" "Yes, and make matters most uncomfortable for the victim of that injustice." Big Bill calmed down. The anger faded from his face, his hands unclenched themselves, and he sat down on the terrace balustrade. "You're right, Mona," he said, in a low, tense voice.
The Hindu listeners were visibly disturbed and affected by this cold recital of bloody deeds. The hands of the Rajput clenched and unclenched themselves nervously, and the merchant gave a deep, guttural groan of horror as he flung the end of his robe over his face as if to shut out a vision of sacrilege and shame.
Then he stood amidst the debris, and placing his right foot upon what had been the mummy's nose, said mildly: "Now, Madame, what next? This lady is finished?" Madame Riennes uttered a stifled scream, more she could not do for rage choked her. Her big eyes rolled, she clenched and unclenched her hands, and bent forward as though she were about to fly at the Pasteur like a wild cat.
She'd not be pleased, would she, if she came in and found you treating me like this, as if I hadn't a right to know anything about her, and me her own son just as much as you are?" That argument moved Richard, Ellen could see. He looked down at his white knuckles and unclenched his hands. "It's really nothing," he told Roger in that false, kind voice.
And now listen, Yolara, for what I speak is truth" into his eyes came the far-away gaze; into his voice the Irish softness "Lo, in my land of Ireland, this many of your life's length agone see" he raised his ten fingers, clenched and unclenched them times twenty "the mighty men of my race, the Taitha-da-Dainn, could send men out into the nothingness even as do you with the Keth.
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