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Even now the little gold-tinted one might be cold in death, denied that small consolation because of his obstinate heart. He ran along the tunnel and burst through the great chamber, cursing the idle slaves into silence when they cried their helpless queries at him. And straight to Pascherette he sped, to fling himself down by her side and seize her tiny, moist hand in frantic appeal.
"Upon the same impulse which prompts men in time of fire to fling valuable looking-glasses out of three-story windows, and at the same time tenderly to lower down feather beds soon after the Museum took fire, a number of sturdy firemen rushed into the building to carry out the wax figures.
Audley felt that to proclaim such a marriage at such a moment would be to fling away his last cast for fame and fortune. And Harley, too, Harley still so uncured of his frantic love! Levy was sure to be at hand when letters like these arrived. And now Levy went further still in his determination to alienate these two hearts.
There was no time to get under the bed, which she often did, and she hugged Orlando close and waited fearfully. Both were silent, but she put her bread behind her. To see them eating sometimes enraged him, and he had been known to fling loaf and teapot both from the windows. Both were on the table now, two or three slices spread with dripping for the younger boys who would presently come in.
'Of course! he cried, with foul resignation and a hostile glare: the ball had seated itself and was grinning at him from the lowest of the stalls. Fleetwood quitted the table-numbers to throw on Pair; he won, won again, pushed his luck and lost, dragging Abrane with him. The giant varied his tone of acquiescence in Fortune's whims: 'Of course! I 've only to fling!
When he had done, so wrought upon was I by the sorrow of that countenance that I went forward again to fling myself upon my knees before her. "Mother, forgive!" I pleaded. And getting no answer I put up my hands to take hers. "Mother!" I cried, and the tears were streaming down my face. But she recoiled before me. "Are you my child?" she asked in a voice of horror.
Ther' should be a trust to see after him. An' after it's got his kids fixed right " Sunny broke off as the tall figure of Wild Bill threw its shadow across the window of the store. The next moment the man himself entered the room. He nodded silently, and was about to fling himself into one of the chairs, when Toby, in jocular anticipation, threw Sunny's proposition at him.
So they will first be this and then that, and act and re- act and keep the balance as near equal as they can, yet they know all the time that it isn't right and, as they incline one way or the other, they will love or hate. When we love, we draw what we love closer to us; when we hate a thing, we fling it away from us.
One might, by a great effort, fling up a bead out of this funnel-shaped opening, but, even to my limited sense of mechanics, the chances seemed very unfavorable towards it doing much more than roll over the spacious roof into the huge gutters surrounding it. Yet, if it chose to bound, it might clear the coping and fall, as one had fallen, on the devoted head of a person walking on the lawn below.
"These afflictions are hard to bear, it is true; but somehow they are got over. Just as if your horse should fling you in the midst of a hedge when you are making a flying leap, you get scratched and bruised, but you scramble out, and in a day or two are on your legs again. Love breaks no bones, that's one comfort.
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