"Jasper!" he bawled.

"Jasper!" He had no weapons, as we have seen, else it may be that he had made an attempt to use them.
Ruth got a hand free and caught at the windowframe as Blake was leaping through.

It checked their progress, but did not sensibly delay it.

It was unfortunately her wounded hand with which she had sought to cling, and with an angry, brutal wrench Sir Rowland compelled her to unclose her grasp.

He sped down the lawn towards the orchard, where his horse was tethered.