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Updated: June 3, 2025
A figure tall and gaunt, endeavouring from the outside to unclasp the window. I saw it. That flash of lightning revealed it to me. It stood the whole length of the window." There was a lull of the wind. The hail was not falling so thickly moreover, it now fell, what there was of it, straight, and yet a strange clattering sound came upon the glass of that long window.
She was silent, and her fingers did not unclasp themselves. He looked at her, and saw for the hundredth time that she was very beautiful. There was a faint colour in her cheeks, and her full lips were just parted as though a loving word had escaped them which she would not willingly recall. Against the background of broken neutral tints, her figure stood out, an incarnation of youth and vitality.
I'd have compassion on Martin junior, do you know? said Mr Pecksniff, with a persuasive smile. 'Yes. He don't deserve it, but I would. She wept so bitterly now, and was so much distressed, that he thought it prudent to unclasp her waist, and hold her only by the hand.
The first time that day; the first time since so many days. Hands lingered, were slow to unclasp, loath to leave the touch which was such exquisite pain and pleasure at once.
Conseil was already trying to unclasp the harpooner's hand from his half-suffocated victim, and I was going to fly to the rescue, when suddenly I was nailed to the spot by hearing these words in French: "Be quiet, Master Land; and you, Professor, will you be so good as to listen to me?" It was the commander of the vessel who thus spoke. At these words, Ned Land rose suddenly.
But, like those who play at dice, she has staked all her kingdom, her crown her life perhaps upon a single throw, and having wound herself up to the desperate act, all the entreaty or argument of the whole earth could not move her to unclasp the hand that wields the fatal box. She will abide the throw.
Now I understand your beauty Angel of Death." "Are you Major Moray?" She could scarcely speak. He smiled, glanced at the two troopers, and shrugged his shoulders. Then, like a flash his hand fell to his holster, and it was empty; and his pistol glimmered in her hand. "For God's sake don't touch your sabre-hilt!" she said.... "Unclasp your belt! Let it fall!"
Something in the tired, dirty face prompted the old Colonel to say, "Well, my horse hasn't been put away yet. I'll take you home on Maggie Boy." The next moment he repented making such an offer, thinking what the neighbours might say if they should meet him on the road with Elizabeth's child in his arm. But it was too late. He could not unclasp the trusting little hand that was slipped in his.
But before you go you wish to kill me for vengeance' sake, because I have shown you to be cheats, and have sought to offer you up to those gods whom you have blasphemed. But the red stones you desire are in my hands, and if I unclasp my fingers they will be lost to you and all the world for ever.
"My darling," he said, striving vainly to unclasp the arms that clung to him, "I must go I must call assistance: this may be more serious than I thought. Try to rouse yourself, Eleanor: I must go!" Alas! it was easy to say it was awfully impossible to do.
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