He tried to kick, but the shoe became more firmly embedded.

He lost his balance, and only by a wild fling of his body, in which his arms went up into the air, did he regain his upright position.

The moment of calm which succeeded produced from him another remark.
'It seems to me that you have got me now in closer bonds than before.' As he spoke he turned his glance backward and saw that comment of his was needless.
The girl had at last yielded to laughter.

Worn out, no doubt, by a long-controlled excitement, laughter had now entirely overcome her.
Leaning her head on her hand and her shoulders against a pillar of the porch, she was shaking visibly from head to foot, and the effort she made to keep the sound of her amusement within check only seemed to make its hold upon her more absolute.
'I don't wonder you laugh,' he said, feebly beginning to laugh himself a little.
But she did not make the slightest reply.

Her face was crimson; the ripples of her laughter went over her form as ripples of wind over a young tree.
He was forced to leave her thus.