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She thrust him from her with a force that was indeed extraordinary.
But Madame de Renal thrust him from her, and continued quite firmly:'My respectable friend M. Chelan made me realise that, in marrying M. de Renal, I had pledged all my affections to him, even those of which I was still ignorant, which I had never felt before a certain fatal intimacy ...Since the great sacrifice of those letters, which were so precious to me, my life has flowed on, if not happily, at any rate quietly enough.
'You and I, at that dinner, will be the only two whose hands are free from blood, but I shall be despised and almost hated, as a bloody and Jacobinical monster, and you will simply be despised as a plebeian who has thrust his way into good society.'
'How I should love to make him angry!' said Julien; 'with what assurance would I now thrust at him with my sword.'
'But if they pinion my arms, the moment I enter the room; they may have set some diabolical machine there ready for me!'It is like a duel,' he told himself with a laugh, 'there is a parry for every thrust, my fencing master says, but the Almighty, who likes things to end, makes one of the fighters forget to parry.
'Fie, Sir!' she said, and thrust him from her.Greatly relieved at this repulse, he hastened to cast an eye round the room: the moonlight was so brilliant that the shadows which it formed in Mademoiselle de La Mole's room were black.
He abandoned himself to these reflections, standing upright in one of the great mahogany wardrobes into which he had been thrust at the first sound heard from the next room, which was Madame de La Mole's bedroom.
'Here I am thrust into a conspiracy at the very least,' was the latter's thought.
She thrust from her the suggestion of a clandestine confinement.
'Fie!' said M. Pirard, and thrust him away; 'what is the meaning of this worldly vanity?
Were you to bid me thrust a knife into your gaoler, the crime would be committed before I had had time to think.
K. now knew it would be his duty to take the knife as it passed from hand to hand above him and thrust it into himself.
Captain Wharton now involuntarily thrust his head between the opening of the curtains into the room; and Frances, turning her ear in breathless silence, noticed the quiet eyes of Harper looking at the peddler, over the book he was affecting to read, with an expression that denoted him to be a listener of no ordinary interest.
asked Captain Wharton, venturing to thrust his face without the curtains.
Fortunately, his quick motion had caused him to escape a thrust aimed at his life, and it was by his clothes only that he was confined.
Once, and once only, as they moved towards the repast, did Lawton see a foot thrust itself from beneath the folds of her robe, and exhibit its little beauties encased in a slipper of blue silk, clasped close to the shape by a buckle of brilliants.
Caesar thrust his misshapen form forward and his features, so expressive of the concern he felt, and so different from the vacant curiosity pictured in the countenance of the other blacks, caught the attention of the silent judge.
The latter presented his bayonet, and made a desperate thrust at the trooper's heart.
In a safe place Tom examined two large needles which were thrust into the lapels of his jacket, and had thread bound about them--one needle carried white thread and the other black.
Then she seized the chunk of fire and suddenly thrust it almost into the boy's face.
She thrust it away.
She thrust it away again, but with less animosity.
He saw Injun Joe, and exclaimed:"Oh, Injun Joe, you promised me you'd never--""Is that your knife?" and it was thrust before him by the Sheriff.
She thrust the volume into the desk, turned the key, and burst out crying with shame and vexation.
They had a smoke and a chat in the shade, and then dug a little in their last hole, not with great hope, but merely because Tom said there were so many cases where people had given up a treasure after getting down within six inches of it, and then somebody else had come along and turned it up with a single thrust of a shovel.
He banged at the door, and presently the heads of the old man and his two stalwart sons were thrust from windows.
He looked as sulky as his father, with his hands thrust into his side-pockets, his brows drawn down, and his lower lip thrusting out.
But she read me at a glance, and there in an instant was a little moleskin purse with a silver clasp thrust into my hand.
It was already growing dark, and I had a long walk before me, so I thrust a few things together and hastened out.
I took a step forward to see what it was, but Edie sprang in front of me, and plucking it off she thrust it into her pocket.
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