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The hush that had fallen on the crowd had given way to roars of excitement, and the men pressed forward eagerly, to give back precipitately when the still-fighting animal's heels flashed too near. Diana was shaking all over and her hands were clenching and unclenching as she stared at the man, who seemed a part of the horse he was sitting so closely. Would it never end?
Marius acknowledged the servile protestation by a sneer, and Rabecque, stirring at last, went forward boldly towards the doorway and its ugly, human barrier. "By your leave, sirs," said he and he made to thrust one of them aside. "You cannot pass this way, sir," he was answered, respectfully but firmly. Rabecque stood still, clenching and unclenching his hands and quivering with anger.
And I knew you to be the cruel wretch who, for so much money, had killed one innocent girl while she trusted him implicitly, and who was by inches killing another. Slinkton took out a snuff-box, took a pinch of snuff, and laughed. 'But see here, said Beckwith, never looking away, never raising his voice, never relaxing his face, never unclenching his hand.
The giant's fingers were working clenching and unclenching near the butts of the two guns he wore; and his eyes were pools of icy rage that chilled Lawler. Twice he tried to speak as Lawler shot a short question at him, and twice he failed, making guttural sounds that betrayed the awful agitation that had seized him.
One hand, behind his back, was clenching and unclenching nervously. He was fronting the two girls, but turned a little away from Marjorie and toward Peggy, so Marjorie could see it. Aside, from that he was perfectly quiet, and so far as any one could see, entirely unmoved. Only Marjorie knew he was not unmoved.
That you had persisted in keeping some of your early habits, perhaps out of bravado. That Miss Allen was an intimate friend, the only woman friend you had made and kept. That was all." "All!" echoed Enoch. The pale, silver landscape danced in a crimson mist before him. He stood, clenching and unclenching his fists, breathing rapidly. "Oh, Enoch! Enoch!
At that moment the yell started among the midshipmen nearer the rail. Farley, Dan, Hallam and others joined in the yell and rushed to better points of vantage. Pennington tried to join in the cheer, but his tongue seemed fixed to the roof of his mouth. He stood clenching and unclenching his hands, his face an ashen gray in his deep humiliation.
It is felt that it would be worthier and more commendable if Lord Wellington were to measure himself in battle with the French, making a definite attempt to stem the tide of invasion on the frontiers." "Quite so," said O'Moy, his hand clenching and unclenching, and Tremayne, who watched him, wondered how long it would be before the storm burst. "Quite so.
"Enough to convince me that I am going to see Shan Tung today," he said. He noticed the slow clenching and unclenching of McDowell's fingers about the arms of his chair. "Then I was right?" "I have every reason to believe you were up to a certain point. I shall know positively when I have talked with Shan Tung." He smiled grimly. McDowell's eyes were no harder than his own.
His hands were clenching and unclenching, and his head moved restlessly from side to side. Every nerve and muscle, she could see, was taut. "They're all dead," he muttered. "Father and Mother and Louise and I only I'm not dead enough to bury. Oh, God, I wish I was!" That wasn't delirium; it was something more like heart-break.
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