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"No," I replied, wondering at his manner more and more. "I only know him, as you do, to be a poet." "Poet, madman, or lover all three should be one and the same thing," muttered the Prince, clenching and unclenching that strong right hand of his on which sparkled a diamond like a star.
"I say what I think, sir," the sailor answered courageously, not failing at the same time in ship courtesy, which demanded that "sir" be appended to each speech he made. It was at this moment that I chanced to glance at Johansen. His big fists were clenching and unclenching, and his face was positively fiendish, so malignantly did he look at Johnson.
One hundred and twenty hours at fifty degrees below zero, and no fire until the fourth day. He would die." "It would be better for if we stay " she stopped, unclenching her hands slowly. "What?" he asked. "I shall kill Captain Rydal," she declared. "It is the only thing I can do. Will you force me to do that, or will you help me? You have sledges and many dogs, and we will pay.
He was a furious man that moment; I could see him biting his lips, and clenching and unclenching his hands from excess of anger. Yet he answered Newman in a soft, even voice, and in the same half-bantering vein the big fellow had used. He was a strong man, was Swope; he could control his temper when he thought it necessary. "Yes, my man, you may consider yourself under arrest!" he said.
Morrison hung his head for a moment, clenching and unclenching his fists; then he looked up swiftly, and the light of a new resolution was in his eyes. "I'll take the chance, sir," he said, speaking with some emotion, "and I hope, sir" turning momentarily to Colonel Warrington "that you'll be as lenient as you can; for I didn't know there was any harm in what I did."
On divers occasions, now, I have come unexpectedly upon him and found him muttering to himself with grim set face, or clenching and unclenching his big square fists and grinding his teeth.
Then Mayor Smith surged forward also and said something to the police about watching the crowd. The general took off his cap. He frowned. He began to speak. The speech has already been covered by our hated rivals. We will not repeat it, save to say that it was as crisp, clean-cut, and pointed as his chin. He was nervous, as we could see by the clenching and unclenching of his hands.
Clemenceau fixed him with his serene, unvarying eyes, and continued, in an emotionless voice, like a statue, speaking: "You are in love and you love my wife." Antonino started away and involuntarily lifted his hands in a position of defense. Averting his eyes and unclenching his fists, he muttered sullenly: "What makes you suppose that?" "I saw it was so."
He stood before me, livid of face and with hands clenching and unclenching at his sides. "Did you expect me to keep such a matter silent? Even had I been so inclined it had not been easy, for His Majesty had questions to ask me. From what the King said, monsieur, you may count upon mounting the scaffold in my stead.
I am what I am." He hesitated, rigid, clenching and unclenching his hands then drew a deep, agonised breath: "I suppose you have meant to be just to me, I wish you might have dealt more mercifully with my mother. As for what you have done to me well if she was illegally my mother, I had rather be her illegitimate son than the son of any woman who ever lived within the law.
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