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"I've left my pistol!" muttered Carroll, white-lipped. "I've left my pistol!" Polly Brewster's hand flew to her belt. She drew out the automatic and held it toward the Southerner. But it was not Carroll's hand that met hers; it was the Unspeakable Perk's. "No," said he, and he flung the weapon back of him into the patio. "Oh! Oh!" cried the girl. "You unspeakable coward!"
The voice that fell upon their ears was not the song of a happy bride going joyously to the altar, but the cry of their pet lamb bound for the sacrifice. "Oh, madness, madness!" exclaimed Mr. Birtwell, in anger and dismay. "My poor unhappy child! God pity her!" sobbed the white-lipped mother, tearless under the sudden shock of this great disaster that seemed as if it would beat out her life.
Her knees were trembling under her. Moreover, she knew that she must return to Jeanie. White-lipped, quivering, she moved to the stairs. He had utterly misunderstood her; she had but voiced the horrified thought that must have risen in the minds of thousands when first brought face to face with that world-wide tragedy. But he had read a personal meaning into her words.
You are building up an honored name. You are winning the respect and confidence of all decent people and you wish to undo it all. You wish to take such desperate chances now!" I groaned. "I've got to go!" he burst forth, white-lipped. "You've never seen a dip cut off from his dope, have you? Well, I'm it, when the old town calls me loud enough for me to hear her plain.
The thousands behind, though, running blindly, in the grip of the nameless terror that had seized them, saw nothing, heeded nothing, and they swept, in a smother of dust, straight over the spot where Soapy and his horse had been. White-lipped, catching his breath in gasps over the horror, Sanderson again turned his back to the herd and raced on.
When morning dawned, the heavens were cloudless, and the laggard sun, as it rose, shone with blinding glory upon peaceful miles. Nowhere was a sign of wallow, path or road, and the coulée yawned, white-lipped. Even the Missouri was not unchanged. For, away to the northwest, there had been a mighty rainstorm, and the murky river tumbled by in waves that were angry and swollen.
This was a different person altogether, hot-eyed, white-lipped, snarling. "Your fault if she dies here, dies of thirst; your fault if they get in here and carry her off, those filthy brutes out there." "They'll never ... get her," said Jimsy King. His face was scarlet and he was breathing hard and clenching and unclenching his hands. "Yes," Carter sneered, "yes! I know what you mean!
Avoiding the stepping-stones and the regular crossing-place, he waded through the brook which ran gurgling between the sandhills and the rough track beyond them. He crossed it, and, skirting the rear of a cottage, reached the top of the Runkerry cliffs. Far below him the sea rushed, white-lipped, against the rocks. The tide was almost full.
The white-lipped kind is much the larger frequently weighing one hundred pounds while a full-grown individual of the collared peccary does not exceed in weight over fifty pounds. The former are of a deeper brown colour, want the white collar around the neck; but in its stead have a whitish patch around the mouth or lips, from which also comes their specific appellation.
The two left behind the tawny, stooping Carolinian and the girl, gone white-lipped in spite of the beating of her heart stared in silence at the copse as long as they could hear the crash of the breaking twigs and resisting branches.
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