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He hesitated, pulled one way by desire, the other way by fear; then he stole to the door and peeped out, listening; and finally crept close to me and put his mouth to my ear and told me his fearful news in a whisper, and with all the cowering apprehension of one who was venturing upon awful ground and speaking of things whose very mention might be freighted with death. My foot struck her, cowering in a corner of the room. Here, crouching and cowering be- hind some trees, the men clung with desperation, as if threatened by a wave. |
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