E. Phillips Oppenheim

Name: The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift
Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

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“The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift”, published in 1908, is a work by E. Phillips Oppenheim. It explores elements such as Mannister, Sinclair and chase.

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ Mannister's voice was slower and more deliberate.
"Sinclair," he said, "you see there your life. You have done me, as a man, the greatest injury which one man has learnt in nineteen hundred years to inflict upon another. In leaving you alive upon the earth, I make no pretence at forgiving you. To kick you into eternity would be, however, only the caprice of a child. The vengeance of God and man strikes deeper. The woman is yours by right of theft. I leave you together, and I leave you the care of her a charge upon your life. ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ Everywhere you are suspected—shunned. Every pair of with a sob of fear. Locked doors are useless. There is a knock! You must open! A waiter perhaps, but the sweat is on your forehead, you are shaking like a leaf. The man thinks you are mad. Everywhere you are suspected—shunned. Every pair of eyes that meets yours seems to carry behind them the knowledge that you are running away. Oh, Hell! It is Hell, Hell!"
"This," Mannister declared, with a pleasant smile, "is most interesting. You have had quite an experience, my dear Sinclair, and you speak of it most eloquently. ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ Mannister said, "when surely everything was against you, you can win again now when she is alone in the world, and the poor remnants of her honour are in your keeping. At any rate you must try. Remember that it is for your life that you plead. Come."
The two men approached the camp side by side, Mannister leading his horse by the bridle, tall, slim, debonair; Sinclair hobbling by his side, bent and broken, with dulled eyes and wandering footsteps. The woman leaned forward to watch them coming. Her lips were parted, a tinge of colour had come back to her cheeks. ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ Mannister answered, "else she would never have left me for you. Never mind. You must do your best. There is but one royal road through life for you—and along that road you must go hand in hand or alone to your grave. For the smaller matters, you will find that there is money enough in her name to keep you from starvation, and I shall require to hear of your marriage within two months. My divorce decree is before the courts."
"She will not marry me," Sinclair said sullenly. "We do not speak. All day and night she weeps because of what she has done." ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ The speck in the distance grew more distinct, the cloud of dust larger. Then there came to the man a last access of strength, a strength wholly artificial, begotten of the terror which lay like ice upon his heart. He plucked at the woman and half helped, half pushed her upon the waiting pony. ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ Understanding had come to him during the long nights and weary days of his wonderful chase. Up and down the world, across continents and seas, through great cities and across the desert places he had followed them, his hand ever stretched out, until the fear which never left them had become a living thing, and their journeying a nerveless hysterical flight. ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ Sinclair answered. "We have not enough to live on for a month."
"I am afraid," Mannister declared, swinging his riding boot against the trunk of the tree, "that in making you a present of the gift of life, I am not doing you a very great service—you or the woman who is now dependent upon you. You will have to work, Sinclair, I am afraid. You never liked work, did you? ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ You were always our recognized authority upon matters of the person. It grieves me to see you like this, Gaston. Is that indeed a shirt, the remnants of which you are still wearing! And, my dear fellow, pardon me, but your feet and hands—every finger-nail gone, I declare. I am ashamed to ask you, but upon my word—when did you take a bath last?"
The man called Gaston staggered to his feet. With the poor remnants of his strength, he threw himself against his persecutor, his nervous, bony fingers locked around the stone which was his only weapon. ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ I have no strength left. We have been very foolish, Christine. We should have waited in the city. There it would have been man to man at least. Now I am broken. I cannot strike a blow. I cannot even kill myself. I cannot kill you. I have no strength left. This flight by night and by day has robbed me of it. It was foolish!"
She turned her face to the ground with a little sob. ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ She is weary already!" the man muttered. "There is no path in life which we could tread together."
"Too late," Mannister answered. "You must hew one axe in hand, even if it be through the wilderness. And for the rest, the love of a woman is to be won by the man on whom she leans. You must win hers, Sinclair. ”

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E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Long Arm of Mannister — I. The Noxious Gift (1908)

“ She pointed to the revolver in his belt, but he shook his head. She remembered that his cartridges were all gone.
"Kill me some other way," she pleaded.
"I could not," he answered. "I am not strong enough. ”

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