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Its proper setting is the gay, glittering ball-room at some frivolous court. To a man who has just got the bird at a music-hall, and who is trying to induce another man to confess that the thing was his doing, it is little short of maddening. "Hen!" he echoed, clenching and unclenching his fists. "Have you studied the habits of hens?"
He seemed trying to gain control of his large, loose hands, clenching and unclenching them. "Good God!" he said. "What say?" "It's no use! I've tried. I'm wrong. Something in me is stronger than you or mamma or papa or or environment. All my life I've been fighting against just just this. And now I've let it trap me." "Darn funny time to be finding it out." "That's the terrible part!
But Dolly could say nothing; no, not when Emma kissed her cheek a hundred times, and covered it with tears, could she do more than hang upon her neck, and sob, and clasp, and hold her tight. 'We have time for no more of this, cried the man, unclenching her hands, and pushing her roughly off, as he drew Emma Haredale towards the door: 'Now! Quick, outside there! are you ready?
"Undoubtedly," said the Missioner, still looking at the top of the stove, and unclenching his fingers as slowly as he had drawn them together, "but he is dead." There was a note of finality in his voice, a sudden forcefulness of meaning as he raised his head and looked at David. "Dead," he repeated, "and buried. We are no longer privileged even to guess at what he might have said.
He reentered the cell like a ghost; he stood very still, his hands slowly clenching and unclenching behind his back, and his pale face inclined low, so that the chin rested on his chest. So he stood for some minutes, Friday not daring to disturb him, until the single door that gave entrance clicked in its lock and opened again. At this he raised his head.
John ended with another groan. Douglas stood clenching and unclenching his gloved hands. Suddenly he turned on his heel. "Come on, Peter." "We can't leave your father this way, Doug." "Come on, I tell you!" Doug's low voice was as hard as his eyes. "Wait!" cried Peter. "Wait! Wait! While Judith freezes to death too!" exclaimed Douglas. "She couldn't freeze to death. She's too mad!" groaned John.
The other looked up with a singular smile, clenching and unclenching his fingers as if he strove to relax muscles which had been tense for hours. "Glendin, the surface of my strength has not been scratched; I could keep going every hour for ten days if it would save the life of the poor fellow who lies in there." He took a long breath. "Now, then, let's get after this business.
Even pet your girl by remote control she in her bubble, you in yours, whizzing through vacuum. Oh, damn-damn-damn-damn-DAMN!" He was glaring at the blank screen of the TV, his big hands clenching and unclenching. "Don't let Fay give you apoplexy he's not worth it," Daisy said, sticking her trim head in from the kitchen, while Fay inquired anxiously, "Gussy, what's the matter?"
Thank you, Miss Kaplan, I knew you would be sympathetic." One hand was clenching and unclenching itself where Miss Kaplan, fortunately a young person whose own side of emotions occupied her exclusively, could not see it. Miss Kaplan kissed her, quite uninvited, again, said "Dear little war-bride!" and just in time, Marjorie always swore, to save herself from death, fled out.
Is this perfectly clear?" Phineas did not answer the question directly. For a moment he stood there, his fists clenching and unclenching, and his eyes snapping. Then he turned away. "All right," he said, sullenly. "I hear what you say. Now I can go, I presume likely unless you've got some more lyin' and bullyin' to do. Get out of my way, Shavin's, you fool." But Grover had not finished with him.
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