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'No; I do in verity believe that were I to desire you to do aught for your own good alone, you would demur, Van. He assured her that she was mistaken. 'We shall see, she said. 'And if once or twice, I have run counter to you, Louisa 'Abominable language! cried the Countess, stopping her ears like a child. 'Do not excruciate me so. You laugh! My goodness! what will you come to!

"And your feverish pulse, sir, your wrinkled liver, and your digestion, which scarcely ever allows you to close your eyes?" "Yes! yes, but my Spanish fives and Mexican bonds?" "And your bilious eyes and eyelids full of crows' feet, and the gout and the rheumatism which excruciate you? those horrid spiders which are weaving their threads in the muscles of your calves?"

Bless my soul, what is there in the world so bad? And rising to the upper notes of his groan: 'Ignorance, density, total imbecility, is better; I would rather any day of my life sit and carve for guests the grossest of human trials a detestable dinner, than be doomed to hear some wretched fellow and you hear the old as well as the young excruciate feelings which, where they exist, cannot but be exquisitely delicate.

"How could you be so galling to the poor devil?" said I, when Cibber, with a profusion of bows and compliments, had left us to ourselves. "Ah, hang him, a low fellow, who pins all his happiness to the skirts of the quality, is proud of being despised, and that which would excruciate the vanity of others only flatters his. And now for my Clelia."

And so forth, and so forth, till Bill was in a fearful sweat and rage, partly with the pig, but chiefly with the uncivil multitude. "Ruther carry me on your back, some rainy night, hadn't ye?" said Fessenden's, in all simplicity, perceiving his distress. "You didn't excruciate my wrist so like time!" groaned Bill. And what was more, darkness covered that other memorable journey.

The feeling of languor , which succeeds the animation of gaiety, is itself a very severe pain; and when the mind is then vacant, a thousand disappointments and vexations rush in and excruciate. Will not many even of my fairest readers allow this to be true?

'No; I do in verity believe that were I to desire you to do aught for your own good alone, you would demur, Van. He assured her that she was mistaken. 'We shall see, she said. 'And if once or twice, I have run counter to you, Louisa 'Abominable language! cried the Countess, stopping her ears like a child. 'Do not excruciate me so. You laugh! My goodness! what will you come to!

But this was not easy, for sound will travel very far among the hills. At times he would take it to the room behind Annie's shop, at times to the hut occupied by Hector of the Stags: there he would not excruciate his host at least, and Rob of the Angels would endure anything for his chief.

But this was not easy, for sound will travel very far among the hills. At times he would take it to the room behind Annie's shop, at times to the hut occupied by Hector of the Stags: there he would not excruciate his host at least, and Rob of the Angels would endure anything for his chief.

The circumstances were combined by so subtle a cruelty that every stroke which did not excruciate the sense should wound and lacerate the sentiments and affections of nature. Wives were torn from the arms of their husbands, and suffered the same flagitious wrongs, which were indeed hid in the bottoms of the dungeons in which their honor and their liberty were buried together.