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These things Justina would have found intolerable if done to herself, unless in their father's presence. Even then she would have only welcomed them for the sake of diverting them from Emily. She felt sure that at first all had been as she hoped, and as it ought to be; and she could not refrain from darting a glance of reproof at Emily.
It is not the fault of the United States that this country has been the refuge of men who have been outlawed from the country of their birth because their presence there meant the irrepressible working in them of a desire for freedom, a desire intolerable to Spanish institutions.
The violent pangs of hunger began to gnaw like vultures, and the thirst was still more intolerable; the pangs of hunger intermitted for hours at a time, and then returned to intermit again: they exhausted but did not infuriate; but the rage of thirst became incessant and maddening. Ben Burnley suffered the most from this, and the wretch came to Hope for consolation.
'Don't be too modest about yourself, I put in encouragingly, and somewhat timidly laying my hand on his, I added, 'I like you as you are. 'Nothing would induce me to let you sacrifice yourself, he exclaimed hotly, 'it would be monstrous, intolerable! He sprang to his feet as he spoke. 'I must go at once, he went on, 'we can never meet again, never, never! I rose also, going rather pale.
It was an intolerable situation, and so, under the spell of his buoyant spirits, he determined to make an end of it once for all. The Countess recognized his step when he came to her tent and she spoke to him. Mistaking her greeting for permission to enter, he untied the strings and stepped inside, only to find her unprepared for his reception.
With every frantic impulse in him crying for action, for knowledge, for relief from the intolerable tension he was under, he presented to the girl the suave appearance of a youth at peace with himself and the hour. The abrupt transitions of the gentleman's interest seemed to surprise the lady. She looked at him with a suspicion which perished under the expression in his brilliant eyes.
The effect of all this tension on his already overtaxed nerves was to induce a fever in the unhealed arm, which, though not painful, was yet sufficient to hold him close prisoner for several days; a delay which chafed him, and which filled his family at home with an intolerable anxiety, not that they knew its cause, that would have been a relief, but that they conjectured another, to them infinitely worse than sickness or suffering, bad and sorrowful as were these.
Then, once more, Chance gave him an unlooked-for opportunity an opportunity of escape from what had become to him an intolerable position. The war broke out, and Hugh Elwyn was among the very first of those gallant fellows who volunteered during the dark November of '99.
But when they have to wait, seated on one side till they are called forward, they cannot sit idle; they work at something. Inactivity has become intolerable to them.
He said frankly that if he did not so interest himself his existence would be simply intolerable to him. "'I may take my daughter to England, he said; 'I may stay there until I see her established in life, but when I had done so I should have to return here. Paris is always the centre of intrigues; I would rather live on a crust here than be a prince elsewhere.
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