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In other circumstances his vanity would have shrunk under this whip of words, but his native reason and his quick humour would have justified David. In this black distemper possessing him, however, only outraged egotism prevailed. His hands clenched and unclenched, his lips were drawn back on his teeth in rage.
She outthrust a shaking hand and unclenched her fingers, displaying therein a crumpled sheet of pink paper, a printed official form, the telltale tint of which indicated its fateful character. Both of her hearers were familiar with the so-called "pink tickets" of the Mounted Police; every one in the Northwest Territory, in fact, knew what they were deportation orders.
Say ye are sorry!" One tense instant the two friends faced each other. Then Jimmy's fist unclenched, and his arms dropped. Dannie stepped back, trying to breathe lightly, and it was between Jimmy and the Thread Man. "I am sorry," said Jimmy. "I carried my objictions to your wardrobe too far. If you'll let me, I'll clean you up.
Then Buckheath sprang down the steps, caught Passmore under the arm-pits and half led, half dragged him up to a chair, into which he thrust him with little ceremony. He stood before the limp figure, peering into the newcomer's face with eyes of greed and hands that clenched and unclenched themselves automatically. "You've found the silver mine!" he volleyed excitedly. "Whose land is it on?
"But if this keeps up much longer " He clenched and unclenched his fists impatiently. "What's the trouble?" "It's my ship the Encounter. We were outspace over a century, you know, and when we got back the inspection teams found so many things wrong with the ship that she needs just about a complete overhauling.
These people were gathered at the end of the cot, and they looked down upon Henry Fitzgeorge, and he lay upon his back, gazed at them thoughtfully, and clenched and unclenched his fat hands.
There, see whether they recognize me now, the wretches!" The young man, thunderstruck, unclenched his fists and turned toward his mother. Parent, as soon as he was released, approached her. "Well," he said, "tell him yourself who I am!
And, seeing the light of unbelief in Joe's eyes: "If you care to make a tour of investigation, you will find that I am entirely truthful. In the laundry a maid " "She is engaged to me" doggedly. "Everybody in the neighborhood knows it; and yet you bring her out here for a picnic! It's it's damned rotten treatment." His fist had unclenched. Before K. Le Moyne's eyes his own fell.
Molly, look at me." Molly uncovered a pair of unwilling eyes and centered them upon his face. "What makes you act so? Are you afraid?" "I did not expect you back, that's all." "That's not it! Tell me what's on your mind.... Tell me." Molly's white lids fell, her fingers clenched and unclenched. "I didn't I couldn't write," she whispered, "about the baby." "Baby!" The word burst out like a bomb.
She had thrown herself face-down on the ground beneath which Aaron McGivins slept, with arms outflung as though seeking to reach into the grave and embrace him. As she had been both son and daughter to him, he had been, to her, both father and mother. Spasmodically her hands clenched and unclenched, and her fingers dug wildly into the earth.
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