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At length, trying to escape the snare into which he had been led, he was going to leave her on the spot where she fell, when her eyes opened, and she uttered, "Save me!" Her voice unmanned him. His long-restraining tears now burst forth, and, seeing her relapsing into the swoon, he called out eagerly to recall her.
Apparently the crew had already discovered to its own despair that Coulter's inhuman orders for scuttling the boats had been carried out, and that of all the emergency craft carried by the Wastrel, only those ridiculously insufficient ones hanging by the port and starboard lights of the bridge offered a chance of escape. At all events, the other boats hung neglected and unmanned.
Every body knows how contagious is fear of all sorts, but more especially that particular kind of fear under which poor Tom was at that moment labouring. I would not have heard, nor I believe would he have recapitulated, just at that moment, for half the world, the details of the hideous vision which had so unmanned him.
The ploughmaker walked away from McGregor. Something in the interview, terminating thus with, the presence of the marching figures had he felt unmanned him. "After all there is youth and the hope of youth. What he has in mind may work," he thought as he climbed aboard a street car.
At length he spoke: "Oh, why is this, Lucy?" he said; "your appearance has unmanned me; but I see it and feel it all. I have been sacrificed to ambition, yet I blame you not." "No, dear Charles," she replied; look upon me and then ask yourself who is the victim." "But what has happened?" he asked; "What machinery of hell has been at work to reduce you to this?
Burton, horror-stricken, unmanned, beside himself, was hanging, clutching with both hands at the table edge. "He's dead," said Jimmie Dale laconically. Burton flung out his hands. "Dead!" he whispered hoarsely. "I I think I'm going mad. Three days of hell and now this. We'd we'd better get out of here quick they'll get us if " Jimmie Dale's hand fell with a tight grip on Burton's shoulder.
For a moment Robert stood as if listening, and then white grew his face, and he swayed and struck his hands together. His recent intoxication had unmanned him. "Go in go in," said his father in some concern, though wrath was predominant. "Oh, make your mind quiet about me." Robert dropped his arms.
I don't know how you found it all out, I'm sure; but I can't go and tell the doctor, even if it was to get me off being expelled." It was no use going on like this. Riddell was getting unmanned every moment, and Wyndham by these wild appeals was only prolonging the agony.
I dare not to explain why I concealed the crime. An accessory! He might seek to turn Queen's evidence, and even try to hang me. He is rich, sly, smart. By God! they may even now be shadowing me. Once on English soil, I am at Anstruther's mercy." He was still white-faced and unmanned as he took the Boulogne boat the next evening.
So much a lady in her way, in deed, in thought, and all that one of nature's gentlewomen that when Lucy cried and broke her heart at his halting explanations, he was unmanned by her sobs, and did a thing no Kelmscott of Tilgate should ever have stooped to do yes, promised to marry her. Of course, he didn't attempt in his own heart to justify that initial folly, as lie thought it, to himself.
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