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but the feeling was caused by her reseray rat, the patriarch of his tribe, as

between each one to stare at

her, out of his unpleasantly bright eyes Suddenly, Miranda shut

her teeth, clenched her hands, and with a sort of fierce suppressed

ejaculation, lifted her shining foot and planted it full on the rat's

head So sudden, so fierce, and so strong, was the stamp, that the

rat was crushed flat, and uttered a sharp and indignant squeal of

expostulation, while Sir Nor she had lost her

wits Still she ground it doith a fiercer and stronger force every

second; and with her eyes still fixed upon it, and blazing with reddish

black flaly, loathso look

more like him?"

There must have been some mysterious rapport between them, for he

understood at once to whom the solitary personal pronoun referred

"Certainly, in the general expression of countenance there is rather a

ion of the teeth and eyes"

"Except that the rat's eyes are a thousand tih