A babe was
clasped in the arms of another and older woman.
She leaped up from her chair, and flinging her
clasp on the ground, she gesticulated rapidly with her hands and said:
But when I spoke of dragging her to the chief then she flung herself upon the ground, and
clasped my knees, for since I called him old, she thought that this chief could not be Umslopogaas.
Again they
clasped hands, and again Slosson's hand went down.
She
clasped her hands imploringly; the tears flowed fast over her cheeks.
Hetty's shriek mingled with the sound, and they
clasped each other in mutual horror.
The unhappy bellringer fell upon his knees on the threshold, and
clasped his large, misshapen hands with a suppliant air.
"But, my children--tell me, I beg of you--where are my children?" and she
clasped her hands in anxious entreaty.
She stooped to kiss the child, and fondly
clasped her arm round his neck.
And
clasped in my arms as she had never been, as I had thought she never was to be!
The greatest curiosity of the study remains to be mentioned; it was a ponderous folio volume, bound in black leather, with massive silver
clasps. There were no letters on the back, and nobody could tell the title of the book.
When the little lady had trotted away on her mission, Dorothea stood in the middle of the library with her hands falling
clasped before her, making no attempt to compose herself in an attitude of dignified unconsciousness.