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"I didn't know you cared for nature so much, Peter." He looked at her strangely and put out his hand and drew her, unresisting, to the bench beside him. "Are you in trouble, Honora?" he asked. "Oh, no," she cried, "oh, no, I am very happy." "You may have thought it odd that I should have come here without knowing Mrs. Holt," he said gravely, "particularly when you were going home so soon.
The others entered the change-house, leading Edward in unresisting submission; for his landlord whispered him, that to demur to such an overture would be construed into a high misdemeanour against the leges conviviales, or regulations of genial compotation.
The young Italian stood for an instant irresolute his bosom heaving with emotions of pride and indignation, and his lips parted, as if he would have defied his tyrant; he felt, too, that he was in the presence of the woman for whom he had declared his love, and all the more manly qualities of his nature rose up to his aid; but he had been too long accustomed to yield to the influence which the pirate had gained over him he quailed before the stern, unrelenting eye fixed on him, and his soft, unresisting character, too similar to that of his unfortunate sister, made him falter in his half-formed purpose.
Brown's face grew purple. "Basket chairs !" he exploded, violently, but allowed himself to be led unresisting from the room. William finished his bed-making with his usual frown of concentration, then, lying down, fell at once into the deep sleep of childish innocence. But Cousin Mildred was lying awake, a blissful smile upon her lips. She, too, was now one of the elect, the chosen.
"Set spare thee and thine infamous master to me!" he exclaimed violently. The Nubian retreated a little, for Kenkenes had strained toward him. "Get him into the four walls of a cell," the Nubian urged the guards. "I may not lose him again, as I value my head." The guards started out of the doors and Kenkenes went with them, unresisting, but not passively.
He turned them upon the white, shrinking face of the girl who stood rigid but unresisting within the circle of his arm. And then very suddenly he bent and kissed her on the lips. She shivered through and through and broke from him with her hands over her face. "But you didn't pay your debt, you know," said Hunt-Goring amiably. "I won't trouble you now, however, as we are no longer alone.
Tarleton with his legion pursued and eagerly cut down the unresisting fugitives. Gates, with some of the militia general officers, made several attempts to rally them, but in vain. The further they fled the more they dispersed, and Gates in despair hastened with a few friends to Charlotte, eighty miles from the field of battle.
Besides, there was the delicate touch of another hand, as fine, as soft as a woman's and yet almost as strong as the farmer's, in her mind, a hand whiter than her own, though somewhat freckled, a hand that had taper fingers and well-kept nails, a hand that bore an antique seal ring and a fine pearl, a hand alas that had often retained her own in its warm clinging pressure, and once only once, and that was three years ago clasped her unresisting waist for a moment in the dark under the Oak while her sister fumbled at the gate.
Next the keeper carried the unresisting body to a door of what in the feeble light seemed a low, one-storied house possibly hut were a better word thence into an interior where the blackness may be likened to a blindfold many times multiplied. Yet he went to a couch, and laid her upon it. "There my part is done!" he muttered, with a long-drawn breath.... "Now to illuminate the Palace!
It's mid-summer!" she called. With a quick plunge he dived into the water, disappeared and stayed until she began to scan the surface uneasily. With a splash he rose by her side, lifting her screaming in his arms. Her bathing-cap was brushed off, and he seized her long hair in his mouth, turned and with swift, strong beat carried her unresisting body to the beach.
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