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He jerked his thumb over his shoulder in the direction where Andrew Johnstone's house appeared far up the slope. "Well, I guess I'll have to choke off a few. Gedap thar, whatter ye doin'!" He gave old Bella a lash with the whip which she noticed merely by a switch of her tail. His shoulders sank to their accustomed limpness and he took no notice of Duncan's thanks as he drove off.
My father might set his foot down upon some plan of mine ever so firmly, but grandmother had only to smile at him and he was reduced to a degree of limpness that contributed to my escape. I have often wondered whether that smile on the face of grandmother did not remind him, of some of his own boyish pranks.
Must he go about for the four days which must intervene before a letter could reach him with that sinking sensation in the pit of his stomach, that curious limpness of his spine? He lived through it somehow without betraying himself and when Mudge's letter came it read in part: "Your theory regarding the extraction of funds from stockholders is all right only it don't work.
Dread overcame him as he felt the limpness of the older man's body. Through the eddying tide ... up over the slippery rocks ... and presently Jim and the mate were unfastening the bonds that held the insensible millionaire in the boatswain's chair. They carried him up near the beacon and laid him down on Percy's oil-clothes. "He's breathing!" said the mate. "He'll come round all right.
The remaining can they left behind, saying they would come back for it. And they meant to, and would have, but for a pale young woman in curling-pins, crowned by the deplorable wreck of a large and flowery hat, and wearing a pink cotton gown of deplorable limpness, through the washed-out material of which her sharpened collar-bones and thin shoulders threatened to pierce.
Aurora jumped on her seat with a cry of "Goodness gracious!" "What is it?" he asked, looking at her more attentively. She appeared aghast. She did not answer at once, tensely trying to think. "Well," she finally exclaimed, relaxing into limpness, "I've been and gone and done it!" And as he waited "I guess I did that insulting," she added, and wiped her brow.
Then he made a thick couch of balsam boughs and went to his little companion. In the half hour he had been at work she had fallen asleep. Utter exhaustion was in the limpness of her slender body as he raised her gently in his arms. The handkerchief had slipped back over her shoulder and she was wonderfully sweet, and helpless, as she lay with her head on his breast.
But already his mood was on the turn: it seemed as if, in the physical effort of putting the words to paper, his rage had spent itself. He was conscious now of a certain limpness, both of mind and body; his fit of passion over, he felt dulled, almost indifferent to what had happened.
He was a bubble burst, his backbone that braced him to the tension of a cuirassier of guards melted into air, into thin air, and a ludicrous limpness came on him, while his eye fell, and confusion showed about his mouth. "In the wars!" he repeated. "Weel no jist a'thegether what ye micht call i' the wars though in a mainner o' speakin', gey near't.
She dropped to the ground and, rolling over, stretched to utmost tension, then relaxed to limpness, eyelids closed and the hair blowing upon them the only moving thing about her. Then she scrambled to her feet again and set off towards Cloom. As she neared it she saw on the far slope a plough at work, looking like a tiny toy, the horses a rich bright brown in the sunlight.
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