`` by god , if you did n't take that swing at me , i really might have left you out of the will ! '' she dropped it just as a shift in the ocean swell towed her under , beads rolling over one another with a soft clatter . nothing would give me greater pleasure than to make you shut you up personally . he leans forward in the chair , pushing his square-shaped jaw farther into my view . destruction had swept the town , but no one had been hurt . 