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My heart is desolate." "Pray for fortitude, my son, that moral condition which enables us to meet danger and endure pain with calmness." As he said the last words, his eyes looked into the future; his expression became agonized. "Fortitude," he repeated the word slowly and deliberately, "fortitude you must pray for it without ceasing, for without it you cannot face the future."
He shall not find me! You won't let him find me, will you, Martha?" Her arms were now tight about the old woman's neck, her agonized face turning wildly toward the door, as if she thought that Felix were already there. "You don't think he wants to kill me, do you?" she whispered at last, her face hidden in the nurse's neck.
Nay, since even the Senator Marcantonio had not flinched before that wonderful agonized white face, he need not confine her, as he had intended, in a convent for decorous keeping; he was glad of the change in her favor which would prevent the harshness that might have increased her influence to the degree of danger.
Two of 'em masked tried t' make me tell tell 'em where we made the cache. I'm I'm done I guess. The dust, it's it's a-a-ah " The gnarled hands shut up into clenched fists, and the feeble voice trailed off in an agonized moan. I laved his pain-twisted face with the cool water and let a few drops trickle into his open mouth.
He gathered, with agonized effort, every power within him to an awful council, and thus he said to himself: "Better a thousand times my brain plastered the stable wall than I should hold them in the head of a dastard. How can God look at me with any content if I quail in the face of his four footed creature!
She looked very piteous and terrified and small; not more than fifteen, and unbearably afraid of him, with her black-framed blue eyes fixed on his in an appeal as agonized as it was unconscious. He caught his breath again, then turned to answer her grandfather, his decision made. "I am glad you remember me, sir," he said gravely, "and exceedingly glad that you are willing Joy should "
"No! it was not there. Is there any one in the bathroom? Will you answer? Of course not. No one could come that way." Going to the silver lace curtain, she raised it with her foot, thrust it aside with her shoulder, and entered the marble room. An agonized numbness fell upon Gwynplaine. No possibility of concealment. It was too late to fly. Moreover, he was no longer equal to the exertion.
They had brought Daddy Skinner from the shadow of the rope. She had forgotten the power of those hands.... Hands of peace hands of love! As shadows fade before the majestic advance of the sun, so under the inrush of divine light did the agonized expression fade from Tessibel's eyes. The menacing figure of Waldstricker slipped away like a gliding night-serpent, and Tess got to her feet.
Why should I? I didn't fall." Linnet brought the pillow and comforter, and then ran out through the back yard calling, "Father! Father!" Down the road Hollis heard the agonized cry, and turning hastened back to the house. "Oh, go for the doctor quick!" cried Linnet, catching him by the arm; "something dreadful has happened to Marjorie, and she doesn't know what it is."
It was the leaving that lays bare the heart of hearts, and strikes blind and dumb the agonized soul the leaving and the leave-taking that is all bitterness, call it by what name you will that makes weak, the strong and confounds the wise, and strikes terror to the breast of stone the leaving which is the leaving off of everything that is near and dear and familiar, and the taking on of all that is new and strange Death!
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