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And from a hole in the ceiling there was a twisting chute of steel down which you could slide with terrific speed. We used to slide by the hour. Outside were freight cars in long lines, some motionless, some suddenly lurching forward or back, with a grinding and screeching of wheels and a puffing and coughing from engines ahead.
"Sophy, come to me," called her husband, in feeble tones. She left the captain, and returned at once to his side. The low berth was almost on the floor, and she had to kneel to bring her face nearer to his. It was night, and the only light was the dim glimmer of an oil-lamp, which the captain had hung to the ceiling, and which swung to and fro with the lurching of the ship.
Then he took the cable car, which connected with lines of electric cars that radiated far out into the distant prairie. Along the interminable avenue the cable train slowly jerked its way, grinding, jarring, lurching, grating, shrieking an infernal public chariot. Sommers wondered what influence years of using this hideous machine would have upon the nerves of the people.
For once I'll go to the end!" she cried with forced courage, suddenly starting forward at a half run that sent the lantern's rays lurching and dancing in a way that confused the hawk eyes. Then her burst of strength seemed to give out in collapse and she dropped against the wall for support, her back covering the panel door. "I can't! I'm just foolishly, weakly feminine!" she whispered brokenly.
Tell our carts to head for Melun and keep on going till they get there. I can't bother with them. We'll meet at the first bridge over the Seine." They departed, and climbing in beside my patient, who writhed in agony, now lurching from one side, now rolling to the other, I tried to make him as comfortable as possible.
It was in fair fight he fell. Moreover, he brought the duel upon himself." Crispin spoke no word in answer, but rose unsteadily to his feet, so unsteadily that his chair was overset and fell with a crash behind him. For a moment he surveyed it with a drunken leer, then went lurching across the hall towards the door that led to the servants' quarters.
Dick Lynch eyed him with drunken cunning. "Ye knows that grand young woman, sir?" he queried. "Yes," said Mr. Darling. "She crossed to London aboard my ship three years ago. We we were good friends." "Aye, ye would be," returned Dick with a drunken leer. And then, lurching forward, "Ye'll be makin' a trip 'round to Chance Along I bes t'inkin', sir, to put the comather on to this Dennis Nolan?
You are going for a ride with me; and if Oh, that's your little game, is it?" lurching forward as she made a frantic clutch at the handle of the door. "Sit down, do you hear me? or it will be worse for you! There!" the cold bore of a revolver barrel touched her temple and wrung a quaking gasp of terror from her "Do you feel that? Now you sit down and be quiet!
A blackcock skimmed across the open space and disappeared unmolested. A wolf gray, gaunt, sneaking, and lurching in his gait trotted into the clearing and stood listening with evil lips drawn back. The two girls watched him breathlessly. When he trotted on unmolested, they drew a deep breath as if they had been under water.
Meanwhile the touring car had been lurching forward with increasing acceleration for more than a quarter of a mile, when, surprising them agreeably, the cliff apparently opened, showing a narrow way cut through its face, leading directly up to the castle. Before the distant portal a group of horsemen could be seen making preparations for departure. "Evidently a relief party.
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