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Fifteen years ago you would have started at a theft. Three years back you would have blenched at the name of murder. Is there any crime, is there any cruelty or meanness, from which you still recoil? five years from now I shall detect you in the fact! Downward, downward, lies your way; nor can anything but death avail to stop you."
And you a church member." "Who? Who?" "Mrs. W W " It was impossible to articulate that tongue-worrying name with her lord glaring at her so dreadfully. The man blenched. "Not old Weatherwax!" "Y-yes." Bowers's jaw hung flaccid. This phenomenon continuing, Mrs. Bowers took alarm. "You've not gone and had a stroke, have you?" she wavered timidly, feeling for his pulse.
He called her the laughing girl and thought her the kindest of them all. But they were all his friends at this time. Andrew King, like young Tamlane, might have sojourned with them for ever and a day, but for one thing. He saw by chance a seventh maiden a white-faced, woe-begone, horror-struck Seventh Sister, blenched and frozen under a great beech.
He blenched and swayed as in proximity to a loveliness beyond endurance. His heart cried out within him. A sudden mist came over his eyes. In the canister that she held out to him, the two pearls rattled like dice. "Keep them!" he whispered. "I shall," she whispered back, almost shyly. "But these, these are for you."
Here, give her this," and he tore a leaf out of his pocket-book and, scribbling a few words on it, handed it to Nibet. "Well," said the warder hesitatingly: "I don't say 'no." "You've got to say 'yes," Gurn retorted. The two looked steadily in each other's eyes; then the warder blenched. "Yes," he said.
"And you don't care which!" she burst out passionately. He gave her a deadly look. "I do care which." And at that she blenched but clung doggedly to his promise. "You must marry me!" "There is no must about it. I will. I have told you so. But I did not suppose it was necessary to make your giving up David a condition. Not that I mean to turn the young man out, I'm sure.
Durtal blenched before the dread of long evenings and the abominable melancholy of days that never ended. At eight o'clock in the evening the sun had not set, and at three in the morning it seemed to wake again; the week was only one uninterrupted day, and life was never arrested.
The words caressing, and by strong constraint made calm and soothing were yet firm. Ursula resisted no more, but let him take Muriel little, unconscious, cooing dove! Lulled by her father's voice she once more opened her eyes wide. Dr. Jessop passed the candle before them many times, once so close that it almost touched her face; but the full, quiet eyes, never blenched nor closed.
At last, when all were drenched in drunkenness, he gazed at the maiden, and amid the revels of the riotous banquet, cursing deep the fickleness of women, and vaunting loud his own deeds of valour, he poured out the greatness of his wrath in a song like this: "Singly against eight at once I drove the darts of death, and smote nine with a back-swung sword, when I slew Swarin, who wrongfully assumed his honours and tried to win fame unmerited; wherefore I have oft dyed in foreign blood my blade red with death and reeking with slaughter, and have never blenched at the clash of dagger or the sheen of helmet.
"Long and bitter was the battle, and the Burgers were fierce without head-strong folly, and the Wheat-wearers deemed that if they blenched now, they had something worse than death to look to.
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