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She had been a strangely imaginative child; and these two faces seemed to have haunted her all her life. That of her hero lay beside her, stricken with illness, fevered, insensible; that of the evil woman for this Cynthia instinctively believed Florence Vane to be confronted her with a strange, mocking, malignant smile. Cynthia put up her hand. "Hush!" she said quietly.
The announcement of it caused an uneasy sensation, which was evident to all present, though no one spoke a word; but Dr. Rowlands took no notice of it, and only said to the culprits "You may return to your seats." The two boys found their way back instinctively, they hardly knew how. They seemed confounded and thunderstruck by their sentence, and the painful accessories of its publicity.
She held out her full, round arm, on the surface of which was spread that light and charming down, symbol of maturity. I applied the wet sponge. "Oh! oh! oh!" exclaimed the Baroness; "it is like ice, a regular shower-bath, and you want to put that all over me?" Just then there was a knock at the door which led out of the Baron's dressing-room, and instinctively I turned toward it. "Who's there?
Even the Armenian muleteer so far overcame his fear of the Kurdish robbers as to indulge in one of his accustomed funeral dirges; but it stopped short, never to go again, when we came in sight of the Kurdish encampment. The poor fellow instinctively grabbed his donkeys about their necks, as though they were about to plunge over a precipice.
The technical ideals and standards which the typical American of the Middle Period instinctively under-valued are neither American nor European. They are merely the special forms whereby the several kinds of intellectual eminence are to be obtained. They belong to the nature of the craft.
For an instant he was blind with pain, but afterwards he steadied, grew deadly cool and clear-headed. There was a constant movement in the corridor and he turned abruptly, almost with authority, into an empty operating theatre. Instinctively he had chosen his ground. Here was symbolized everything that he trusted and believed in a cool, dispassionate seeking, the ruthless cutting out of waste.
Dodger possessed quick sympathies, and his own experience made him quick to understand and feel for the troubles of others. Though the woman made no appeal, he felt instinctively that she needed help. "I beg your pardon," he said, with as much deference as if he were addressing one favored by fortune, "but you seem to be in need of help?" "God knows, I am!" said the woman, sadly.
I cannot bear it longer. Hast thou NO help for me?" Instinctively almost I knew that Catherine Weir was beside me, though I could not see where she was.
I should be, in that department of human activity, an extremely successful man, and the vast majority of people would instinctively credit me with gifts that I do not possess.
The legislator tends to centralize everything in the State, as if the State could act. The convict would be sure always to remember his victim, and to avenge himself when Justice had ceased to think of either of them. Prudence, who instinctively appreciated the danger in a general sense, so to speak left Valenciennes and came to Paris at the age of seventeen to hide there.
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