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Then as the frenzy left Harrigan and the numbness departed from his arms, he knew that he was growing weaker and weaker. In McTee's eyes he saw the growing light of victory, the confidence. His own wild hunger for blood grew apace with his desperation. He flung himself forward in a last effort.
"Why did you do that?" asked Lida, still laughing; "we might have gone, too." "No, you stop here," replied Sanine. "If I had anybody to keep me company, I should do the same." With that he left them. Night came on apace, and the first trembling star were mirrored in the swiftly flowing stream. The evening was dark and sultry.
Thou knowest in years I do grow apace, and 'twould be small wonder if death did perchance tap me on the shoulder and say, 'Thou art the man! There, there, little one," he added kissing her, "thou needst not reply; I can read an answer in thy eyes." "And, prithee, didst ever doubt my love for thee?" whispered the girl, as she gently placed her arms about his neck.
'I shall think it a great honour to be your wife, she said simply. The year was now moving on apace, but Ethelberta and Picotee chose to remain at Knollsea, in the brilliant variegated brick and stone villa to which they had removed in order to be in keeping with their ascending fortunes. Autumn had begun to make itself felt and seen in bolder and less subtle ways than at first.
Life was still an adventure, but now an adventure of a hard, cruel sort, something that needed an answer grim and dark. The storm was coming up apace. The wind had risen and was now rushing over the short stiff grass, bellowing out to meet the sea, blowing back to meet the clouds that raced behind the hill. The sky was black with clouds.
E quasi mi perdei gli occhi chini. Can you wonder, Mathilda, that I dwelt on your looks, your words, your motions, & drank in unmixed delight? I must be more brief for night draws on apace and all my hours in this house are counted. Well, we removed to London, and still I felt only the peace of sinless passion.
The later autumn and the winter drew on apace, and the leaves lay thick upon the turf of the glades and the mosses of the woods. Bathsheba, having previously been living in a state of suspended feeling which was not suspense, now lived in a mood of quietude which was not precisely peacefulness.
Checkers felt apprehensive for Arthur, when he noticed three different glasses at each plate; but Arthur took early occasion to state that he was "on the water-wagon," and he hoped that the boys would "not let it make any difference with them, or with the gayety of the evening" and it did n't. After the first edge of their hunger was turned the jollity grew apace.
"I understand it's affecting their feet so that they can't walk, and a dreadful sort of net is growing between their toes. What a shocking visitation!" "She brought it on herself," said Dame Scratchard. "Why didn't she come to me before she sat? She was always an upstart, self-conceited thing; but I'm sure I pity her." Meanwhile the young ducks throve apace.
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