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We should feel horrified at the scourging and mocking and crucifixion just as we should if Ruskin had been treated in that way when he also went mad, instead of being cared for as an invalid. And we should have had no clear perception of any special significance in his way of calling the Son of God the Son of Man.
The young tenor showed him his copy of the contract and was horrified to be told that he had bound himself to his Shylock for a lifetime; that the contract read that he was to give Vergine five years of actual singing. Caruso would have reached the age of fifty before the last payment came.
There, of course, his arrival did not escape notice, and all who saw him were horrified by the change that had come over his face. Instead of the jovial, witty smile, there was a look of frantic rage and desperation.
She learned the lessons that were given her at railroad speed, and rattled off her exercises with a slap-dash penmanship which horrified the neat and niggling Fräulein, and then rushed off to the lake or mountain, and by this means grew browner and browner, and more indelibly freckled day by day, thus widening the gulf between herself and her beauty sister.
"Well," continued Myra in evident confusion, "his behaviour became embarrassing; and suddenly he asked me if I could ever love him, not as a brother, but " "I understand!" said Cairn grimly. "And you replied?" "For some time I could not reply at all: I was so surprised, and so horrified. I cannot explain how I felt about it, but it seemed horrible it seemed horrible!
Very shortly after the mess had been finished, however, the C.O. came round to pay a visit, and was horrified, to say the least of it, to see the destruction that had been carried out on the borrowed beams. Captain Fyfe, however, had a ready answer and the trouble was smoothed over.
Ginger, what an evening!" "Good Lord!" said Ginger suddenly, as they walked into the light of the open kitchen door. "Now what?" He stopped and eyed her intently. "Do you know you're looking prettier than you were when I started down to the village!" Sally gave his arm a little hug. "Beloved!" she said. "Did you get the chops?" Ginger froze in his tracks, horrified. "Oh, my aunt!
"Well, you'll know for yourself in a minute," said Richard. "I heard the front door open and close a second ago." Ellen felt a thrill of pride because he had such keen senses, for the sound had been so soft that she had not heard it, and yet it had reached him in the depth of his horrified absorption of his brother's being.
Stokes sprang from his chair and, with clenched fists, stood angrily regarding the horrified Mr. Bell. He composed himself by an effort and resumed his seat. "Anything else?" he inquired. "Heaps and heaps of things," said Mrs. Henshaw; "but I don't want to make bad blood between you." "Don't mind me," said Mr. Stokes, glancing bale-fully over at his agitated friend.
Do not look so horrified, Betta. I will give him the large emerald out of my mother's necklace." The woman clasped her hands, and cried out in dismay and warning. "Child, child! That splendid gem! an heirloom in the family that stone which came to you from the saintly Emperor Theodosius to sell that of all things!
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