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Updated: June 3, 2025
As in the name of the Motherland I thanked these men for thus rallying around our common flag in the hour of peril, and tenderly urged them to be as loyal to the Christ as to their Queen, the meaning look and hearty hand-grip spoke more eloquently to me than any words. In almost every case the responsive heart was there.
'I had prepared myself to wait for hours, said the voice; and Ralston emerged from a shadowed corner with an outstretched hand Ralston, with his big sagacious head, all unexpectedly silver-white, and moustache and beard of snow, but with the same old hand-grip, and the same half-dictatorial, half-affectionate tone.
Far below the Commandant could see a light glimmering, drawing faint twinkles from the wet rock around him. Just beneath him he could hear Vashti's hands rhythmically catching at the rungs down, down.... Once his feet slipped from the staves, and he hung for a moment by his hand-grip only.
"Don't you get lonely sometimes?" Norah asked him. The Hermit looked at her gravely. "Sometimes," he said. "Now and then one feels that one would give something to hear a human voice again, and to feel a friend's hand-grip. Oh, there are times, Miss Norah, when I talk to myself which is bad or yarn to old Turpentine, my snake, just to hear the sound of words again.
Ochiltree paused "I was a bauld craigsman," he said, "ance in my life, and mony a kittywake's and lungie's nest hae I harried up amang thae very black rocks; but it's lang, lang syne, and nae mortal could speel them without a rope and if I had ane, my ee-sight, and my footstep, and my hand-grip, hae a' failed mony a day sinsyne And then, how could I save you?
Think I've still got a chance?" "Sure thing!" said Jake. "But go carefully. You've got a fence or two to clear before you get home." He paused a moment, then gave him a kindly hand-grip. "Say, Bunny," he said, "there's nothing despicable about making a mistake. It's only when things go wrong and we don't play the game that there's anything to be ashamed of.
"Losh! it's no Tam M'Callum!" he swung his swag to the ground, and extended his hand "Mony 's the thocht A had o' ye, mun. Ma certie, A kent weel we wad forgather ir lang. An' hoo're ye farin' syne?" "Excellent, i' faith of the chameleon's dish," I replied, with winning politeness, and a hearty hand-grip, though I felt like a man in the act of parrying a rifle bullet.
The keen and ancient steel that might well have been some of that which, as legend told, was forged by the dwarfs in Norseland, fell upon the ivory between his hand-grip and the cross-piece and shore through it as I had hoped that it would do, so that the blade of Kari's sword, severed just above the hilt, fell to the ground and the hilt itself was jarred from his hand.
However, you know one thing if I can be of use to you, I shall. I'll think it over your chances and so on; something may suggest itself. You're not cut out for everyday things. 'I try to hope not. 'Ah, but you can take my word for it. With this comforting assurance, Felix Dymes departed. No melodrama; a hand-grip, a significant nod, a loud humming as he went downstairs.
But he could not conceal an added degree of respect, and liking even, under the impenetrable manner which hid his own aching sense of close personal suffering. Grosse answered the firm hand-grip with a kindly smile. "I only heard of Madame Danterre's death when I got to Genoa on our return journey." "And she died just before you left London," said Murray.
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