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Running open the noose of the lariat, she dropped it surely over his shoulders. The other end of the rope was fastened to the saddle-horn, and the cow-pony, used to roping and throwing steers, braced itself with wide-planted front feet for the shock. "Can you get your arm through the loop?" cried the girl. His arms were like lead, and almost powerless. With one hand he knew he could not hang on.
This hoarse babel ended suddenly as, opening the door, Anthony strode in, his whole person and attitude suggestive of that air I have already mentioned as one of polite ferocity. "Aha!" said he, feet wide-planted, Captain Danby's stout cane bending in his powerful hands. "How far is it to Sevenoaks, pray?" "Better nor seven mile!" answered the surly landlord, setting down his spirit-glass.
Then, with her startling suddenness, she rushed at them, and swung herself, it seemed to Ransome, with an increased abandonment, a wilder rhythm and motion; and when she raised her body like an arch, far-stretching and wide-planted, it seemed to him that it rose higher and stretched farther and wider than before, that there was, in fact, something preposterous in her attitude.
A knife lay between his wide-planted feet, and a visgy close behind him on a heap of disturbed sand. The boy came on them from the eastward, and his shadow fell across the hollow. "Hullo!" said one of the riders, looking up. It was Squire Moyle himself. "Here's the new Passon's boy!" All the riders looked up. The Whip looked up too, and turned to the old Squire with a wider grin than before.
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