He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its
chain wound over and about its arm.
The commissary lifted his staff to strike Pasamonte in return for his threats, but Don Quixote came between them, and begged him not to ill-use him, as it was not too much to allow one who had his hands tied to have his tongue a trifle free; and turning to the whole
chain of them he said:
But they would never understand the strange, sweet language that she spoke, or even see the lovely face that smiled at them above the waves; her blue, transparent garments were but water to their eyes, and the pearl
chains in her hair but foam and sparkling spray; so, hoping that the sea would be most gentle with them, silently she floated on her way, and left them far behind.
She had all the heroism of principle, and was determined to do her duty; but having also many of the feelings of youth and nature, let her not be much wondered at, if, after making all these good resolutions on the side of self-government, she seized the scrap of paper on which Edmund had begun writing to her, as a treasure beyond all her hopes, and reading with the tenderest emotion these words, "My very dear Fanny, you must do me the favour to accept" locked it up with the
chain, as the dearest part of the gift.
And now, while the whole assembly (the apes included) were convulsed with laughter, the jester suddenly uttered a shrill whistle; when the
chain flew violently up for about thirty feet -- dragging with it the dismayed and struggling ourang-outangs, and leaving them suspended in mid-air between the sky-light and the floor.
He had the
chain in his right claw and the shoes in his left, and he flew right away to a mill, and the mill went 'Click clack, click clack, click clack.
So brief was the interval between the opening of my eyes and the fall of the
chain that I could not check it, though it that minute interval I recognized the face so close to mine as that of my son, Carthoris.
At last he became aware of the mighty surging of a number of his antagonists back and forth upon the great
chain that held him, and presently came the same sound that he had heard at a little distance from him a short time before he had been attacked--his
chain had parted and the broken end snapped back against the stone wall.
At the next halt Hooja the Sly One managed to find enough slack
chain to permit him to worm himself back quite close to Dian.
Finally her glance chanced to fall upon the rope in the bow of the dugout, and, making one end of this fast to the
chain, she succeeded in drifting the canoe slowly down until it lay directly beneath the ladder.
Again the rat charged and as Turan stepped quickly back to avoid the menacing jaws, something seemed to jerk suddenly upon his right ankle, and as he drew his left foot back to regain his equilibrium his heel caught upon a taut
chain and he fell heavily backward to the floor just as the rat leaped upon his breast and sought his throat.
simultaneously, the
chain on his collar jerked him up and back in the air, the rope on his hindquarters jerked that portion of him under, forward, and up, and the still short stick in Collins's hand hit him under the lower jaw.
