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She was in the drawing-room, and again the soft melody of half-suppressed music, scarcely audible, yet every note distinct, floated to his chamber, and the guest scarcely breathed that he might hear. There was something so plaintive, so melting in the tones that they saddened as well as delighted. How the heart can melt out at the finger-points when touching the keys of a sweetly-toned instrument!
Then both sides of the head and the back of the head are stroked similarly. After this the whole head is rubbed briskly with the finger-points. This should be done often, even four or five times in the day. If the patient objects, it is being unskilfully done; the right sort of rubbing is always pleasant. A squinting eye has been cured in a few rubbings, where the case was a simple one.
The daisies were all asleep, spotting the green grass with stars of carmine; for their closed red tips, like the finger-points of two fairy hands, tenderly joined together, pointed up in little cones to keep the yellow stars warm within, that they might shine bright when the great star of day came to look for them.
But it was difficult, throbbing as he was with wild life and trouble to the very finger-points, to get himself into the shadow of that rock-hewn grave, by which, according to his own theory, the Church should be watching on this Easter Eve. It was hard just then to be bound to that special remembrance.
Now, what is the verdict of experience on the subject? The direct and unequivocal verdict of experience is, that the touch reveals itself to us as one of its own sensations. In the finger-points more particularly, and generally all over the surface of the body, the touch manifests itself not only as that which apprehends hardness, but as that which is itself hard.
For, in judging whether you have got hold of a thing and how much force you must put forth to keep hold of it, you are guided entirely by the pressure on the finger-points, and to gauge this pressure nicely the nerves must be refined and educated.
She squeezed that hairy serpent till her finger-points whitened in his neck, and he dropped lifelessly, crying: Treble-tongues and things of mud! Sprang my beauty from his blood? And the Serpents rose erect, replying: Yearly one of us must die; Yearly for us dieth one; Else the Queen an ugly lie Lives till all our lives be done! Bhanavar stood up, and hurried them to Karatis.
"This," she answered, pointing to her waist, "and these," and she touched her rich, red lips with her taper finger-points. "Would you like to practise a little, my innocent English knight, before we go out? You look as though you might seem awkward and unconvincing." "I think," answered Peter drily, for the humour of the situation moved him, "that such practice is somewhat dangerous for me.
She squeezed that hairy serpent till her finger-points whitened in his neck, and he dropped lifelessly, crying: Treble-tongues and things of mud! Sprang my beauty from his blood? And the Serpents rose erect, replying: Yearly one of us must die; Yearly for us dieth one; Else the Queen an ugly lie Lives till all our lives be done! Bhanavar stood up, and hurried them to Karatis.
Where we turned off the road, broken finger-points of brick walls in the faint moonlight indicated the site of Neuve Chapelle; other fragments of walls in front of us were the remains of a house; and that broken tree-trunk showed what a big shell can do.
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