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I will have it so, and it must be done!" The countess seemed to be furious. "Never!" she cried again, "never!" And with convulsive haste she added, "Do you not see that the truth cannot possibly be told. They would never believe in our innocence. They would only look upon us as accomplices." "Never mind. I am not willing to die." "Say that you will not die alone." "Be it so."
The last fact appealed to him, perhaps, as much as the one more invested in violence. "'Ere," said he at last, jerking his head and rubbing his jaw, "how the 'ell did you do it?" "We'll get some gloves and I'll show you," said Doggie. So peace and firm friendship were made. Doggie went into the house and in the dining-room found Oliver in convulsive laughter. "Oh, my holy aunt!
At every lurch, the mainmast appeared as if making the most violent efforts to disengage itself from the ship; the weather shrouds became like straight bars of iron, while the lee shrouds hung over in a semicircle to leeward, or with the weather-roll, banged against the mast, and threatened instant destruction, each moment, from the convulsive jerks.
He gave her a little convulsive squeeze could a man do less? then just managed to push her gently away, trying with all his might to think: She's a child! It's nothing more than after Carmen! She doesn't know what I am feeling! But he was conscious of a mad desire to clutch her to him. The touch of her had demolished all his vagueness, made things only too plain, set him on fire.
Some of my men say they left her lying, insensible, on the spot whence they had raised the body of our unfortunate friend, which they had some difficulty in releasing from her convulsive embrace. But, hark! there is the first drum for parade, and I have not yet exchanged my Indian garb."
His hands, resting on his knees, twisted and fiddled continually. Every now and then convulsive shudders shook him. The man was quite obviously on the verge of a collapse. As the Chief and Desmond advanced into the room, the Jew looked up in panic. Then he sprang to his feet with a scream and flung himself on his knees, crying: "Ah, no! Don't take me away! I ain't done no 'arm, gentlemen!
She laughed a mocking, malicious laugh; then suddenly stretched out one slender hand and made a descriptive motion as of tossing her glove into the centre of a distant circle her eyelids narrowing until they seemed almost to close a strange light escaping from them her breath coming with slow pants, as if from suffocation the hand dropped at her side betraying her passion by convulsive movements trembling through the tinted finger-tips.
Then a convulsive thrill shot through his pulse and veins; pale as a corpse, he fixed his staring eyes upon her; but soon they began to roll, and a fiery current flashed and sparkled in them, and he yelled fearfully, like a hunted animal. Leaping up high in the air and laughing horribly at the same time, he began to shout, in a piercing voice, "Spin round, wooden doll! Spin round, wooden doll!"
She started suddenly, a bright flush flew over her colourless cheeks; she bent down, and looked earnestly and wistfully into the Goth's face. Her lips moved, but her quick convulsive breathing stifled the words that she vainly endeavoured to form. 'Yes, continued Hermanric, rising and drawing her towards him again, 'you shall never mourn, never fear, never weep more!
The national superstitions, out of which literature had at first emerged, were replaced by cosmopolitan superstitions of an infinitely worse kind, which threatened to engulf it at its close, and against which in the persons of such men as Seneca, Juvenal, and Tacitus, it strove for a while with convulsive vigour to make head.
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