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"If it is as you say about me and I ask you not to go to Corsica?" "I must go." "Why?" asked Denise, with a dangerous quiet in her voice. "I cannot tell you." "Then you expect a great deal." De Vasselot slowly untwined his fingers and drew in his arm. "True," he said reflectively. "I must ask nothing or too much. I asked more than you can give, mademoiselle."
For at that moment the snake's tail struck him, and twined about his left leg; untwined, and seemed to flog at him, quivering in the air the while, but only after writhing horribly, twisting round the pole which pressed it down, and forming itself into a curious moving knot. "I can't hit at it now," I said, hoarsely; "it will strike away the pole." "Yes; don't hit yet.
Even we girls, Captain Irby, must do all we can to help your cousin get away with the battery, the one wish of his heart!" She listened, untwined and glided into the house. Instantly Flora spoke: "Go, Adolphe Irby, go! Ah, snatch your luck, you lucky man! Get him away to-night, cost what cost!" Her fingers pushed him. He kissed them. She murmured approvingly, but tore them away: "Go, go, go-o!"
He untwined her fingers, which clung tenaciously to his, and saw that the blood ebbed out of cheeks and lips as she listened to his carefully guarded language. Silently she obeyed Miss Jane's summons to the sofa. "You perverse witch! Where have you been practising all these months, that have made you such a wonderful cantatrice? Child, answer me."
When the silver cord becomes untwined, and the golden bond broken, when the wheel of action stands still in the exhausted cistern of our life, may we lie down in the light of that faith which makes so beautiful the face of the dying Christian, and has converted death's ghastly silence to a peaceful sleep; may we rise to a holier and more visible communion, in the land without a sin and without a tear; where the dead shall be closer to us than in this life; where not the partition of a shadow, or a doubt, shall come between.
"I have known all the bitterness of life," interposed the low, soft voice of Madame Bulteel. "All ears are the same here," Fleda added, looking the woman in the eyes. "I will tell everything," was the instant reply. Her fingers twined and untwined in her lap with a nervousness shown by neither face nor body. Her face was almost apathetic in its despair, but her body had an upright courage.
And yet she was only undoing her own work! she was not forcing a grown man to undo his! said the Squire, with a sudden rush of voice and speech. Elizabeth looked up astonished. 'Am I to put that down? The Squire threw away the book he was holding. His shining white hair seemed positively to bristle on his head, his long legs twined and untwined themselves.
But just then, by the merest accident, she gave the knot a kind of twist, which produced a wonderful result. The gold cord untwined itself, as if by magic, and left the box without a fastening. "This is the strangest thing I ever knew!" said Pandora. "What will Epimetheus say? And how can I possibly tie it up again?"
How perfect would have been the little treasury, shut between the covers of how thin a book! Let us suppose the desired separation made, the electric thread untwined, the golden pieces, great and small, lying apart together.* What are the peculiarities of this residue? What special sense does Wordsworth exercise, and what instincts does he satisfy?
Abdullah untwined his turban, loosened his sash, felt something escape him, fell on his knees, groped, felt a paper, rose, went to the tent's door, recognized the invoice which the old man had given him, went out, kicked up the embers of the fire, knelt, saw that the paper was unsealed, was fastened merely with a thread, played with the thread, saw it part beneath his fingers, saw the page unfold, stirred up the embers, and read: "To Mirza, Mother of the Dancers at Biskra, by the hand of Abdullah.
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