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Updated: June 7, 2025
It was a horrible place, all slime and foul water; the rocks were slippery. But that coin was in her fingers." Rosa managed to say: "Impossible! Then she must have had it when she fell." "No, no! I saw her hands upstretched, her fingers open, in the moonlight." "It's uncanny. Perhaps " "Yes. Perhaps some unseen hand led her to the place so that we should at last come into our own. Who knows?
He had forgotten for the moment the rôle he had set himself to play, and only thought of the ball that was flying toward him from center. He would do his best. The pigskin settled into his hands and he dropped it quickly, kicking it fairly on the rebound. But the second was through, and the ball banged against an upstretched hand and was lost amidst a struggling group of players.
Up a series of little brick steps, the base of a chimney over the kitchen then across another stretch of leads beneath which is the tailor's shop then, stealing in shadow under the beams of overhanging eaves by a garret window, behind which was a light, and someone moving then a spring of three feet between two cornices then a running walk at a height of a hundred feet along a beading four inches wide, holding on with the upstretched arms then, with course changed from south to east, along more leads then a climb of ten feet up a glazed main and now they were skulking behind the coping of the great No. 2 prison.
And now, against the colonnade of gloomy trees, there was something sacrificial in that tableau the blue robe, the wet dagger, the plumed head pulled back, with glazed eyes fixed on the woman who stood rigid, her arms upstretched, transformed from the giver of life into the giver of death. She fled, stumbled, stood still in the entrance to the back-trail.
Many of these were kneeling, while others, who could find no space to kneel, held their hands upstretched toward heaven, or beat their breasts and wept in the emotional fashion of the country.
One of them shot swift as an arrow down into his upstretched hand and laid his root fibre there. There was a lull in the storm, so that the root-fibre was not torn instantly away from the hand; but in the hermit's prayers there was no pause: "May the Lord come soon to destroy this world of corruption, so that man may not have time to heap more sin upon himself! May he save the unborn from life!
Through a sort of haze, born mostly of horror, but not entirely, I saw Eltham, stripped to the waist and tied, with his arms upstretched, to a rafter in the ancient ceiling. A Chinaman, who wore a slop-shop blue suit and who held an open knife in his hand, stood beside him. Eltham was ghastly white.
Led by Mirabeau and Sieyes, they proceeded to a great public building in the vicinity, which was variously used as a riding-hall or a tennis court. There, amidst intense excitement, with upstretched hands, they took an oath as members of the "National Assembly" that they would not separate until they had drawn up a constitution for France.
When Peters, at centre, passed the ball at least two feet above the upstretched hands of Harris, who wanted to punt, and at least nine youths raced back up the field in pursuit of it, shoving, tripping, falling, rolling, and when it was Peters himself who finally dropped his one hundred and seventy-odd pounds on it, the onlookers rocked in their seats and applauded wildly.
'It's that beastly voice again, Lawford cried out loud, looking vacantly at his upstretched finger. And then, hand and arm, not too willingly, as it were, obeyed; relaxed and fell to his side. 'You must keep a tight hold, old man, he muttered to himself.
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