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 The next moment I was over him, choking him with the left hand, while with the right I dealt him a blow back of the ear.

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 I did not spring up, for such a movement would have brought me directly in contact with the knife, but I threw myself at his feet, and tripped him up.
 It was so comforting, too, to know that she was doing Percy "a great favor," by accepting his beautiful ; present.