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"She doesn't say so. You can't tell from what she says anyway. Still, I think she is hovering around the danger point." "She'd better watch out. Rob isn't the kind of a man who will stand for too much thwarting," I replied. "If he'd only play up a little bit to some one else, it would bring things to a climax," said my wife sagely. "There's no one else to play up to.
As he approaches the climax of his effort, he pants and gasps for breath, and his eyes almost start from their sockets with the violence of his exertions. This is the critical stage of the operation; all his previous labours are vain if he cannot sustain the rapidity of the movement until the reluctant spark is produced. Suddenly he stops, becomes perfectly motionless.
Nick was quite as anxious as the gang to force matters, moreover; for at the end of ten minutes, in case he did not return to the carriage, Chick was to begin getting in his work. Therefore the climax came quickly. Six minutes had already passed. "Well, sir, what do you think of them?" cried Venner, as he returned to the room.
To be devoured would be the climax of misfortune. I wished to know what animals would be likely to stop my wayfaring in this effectual manner. 'Are there wolves? 'No; none have been seen for years. 'Are there boars? 'Yes, plenty of them. 'But boars, I said, 'are not likely to interfere with me.
No nothing of the sort. You get yourself all worked up and excited about that blanket, and then all of a sudden, just when a happy climax seems imminent you are let down flat nothing saved but the girl. Whereas, one is not interested in the girl; she is not the prominent feature of the legend.
The only shadow of this beautiful hour was that in this rapt space of tranquil reflection one seemed to have harmonised and explained life, joy and disaster alike, to have wound up a clue, to have brought it all to a peaceful and perfect climax of silence, like a tale that is told; and then it was necessary to go out to the world again with all its bitterness, its weariness, its dissatisfaction till one almost wondered whether it was wise or brave to have chased and captured this strange phantom of imagined peace.
'Let them Tracys bury their own dead, he said to his wife before he left home, and he said it again in substance now, as with a tremendous 'ahem! he commenced his speech standing close to little Jerry, who never took her eyes from him, but watched him with a face which varied in its expression with every variation in his voice and manner, and reached its climax when he said: 'I don't b'lieve in saddlin' the town with a debt we don't orto pay.
Browne nodded in answer and, when she had gone, said to Freddy Malins: "Now, then, Teddy, I'm going to fill you out a good glass of lemonade just to buck you up." Freddy Malins, who was nearing the climax of his story, waved the offer aside impatiently but Mr. Browne, having first called Freddy Malins' attention to a disarray in his dress, filled out and handed him a full glass of lemonade.
And then at the climax of his speech, as he is waving his violin in the air, the Herr Prof. von Arne ventures to put in a word; and the boy whirls upon him, and brings down the three thousand-dollar treasure upon the eminent psychiatrist's head! The third act, which was the hardest of all to write, was to take place in a garret.
Alyrus had come into his reward. He was free, and Sahira his daughter was free, a purse of gold was in his hand and a ship lay waiting in the harbor, to carry them away to their home by the desert. Alyrus was not ready to go, yet. He wanted first to see all the amusement which there would be in Rome. He could not miss the climax of what he had intrigued for.
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