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At first Roden thought that the way was being made easy for him as it is in books, as, indeed, it sometimes is in life, when it happens to be a way that is not worth the treading; but the last word stung him like a lash as it was meant to sting. It was, perhaps, that one word that made him rise from his chair.
Behold how gallantly misfortune is borne by this pillar of manhood upon which you would have leaned, by this stalwart husband of your choice. Look at him! Look at this dear brother of mine." Under the lash of that mocking tongue Lionel's mood was stung to anger where before it had held naught but fear. "You are no brother of mine," he retorted fiercely.
Many were brought forward who could swear how she had hated my lady; how she had taken every opportunity to insult and annoy her; how again and again my lady had been found crying fit to break her heart after the lash of Miss Inez's stinging tongue.
That Spot trembled and wobbled and cowered before ever I swung the lash, and with the first bite of it he howled like a lost soul. Next he lay down in the snow. I started the rest of the dogs, and they dragged him along, while I threw the whip into him. He rolled over on his back and bumped along, his four legs waving in the air, himself howling as though he was going through a sausage machine.
In this woman he finds the trick of a lifted lash, or a shadowy dimple in the melting rose of her cheek. In another, the stately curve of neck and shoulder and the somber fire of dark eyes draws his roving gaze; in a third, there is a soft, adorable prettiness, like that of a baby. He has always known them all.
"Who told you that?" demanded the young man, with a guilty flush and a shame-faced air. "It does not matter who told me; I have it on good authority." "But, Stanley, I am fond of her. I really am." "Suppose Alfred Bent was fond of your sister, Minnie, in the same way, would you like to have him marry her?" The fellow shrank as under a lash and his eyes blazed.
"How long have you had this whip?" said he to the saddler, concealing the emotion, which this token of his lost parent naturally excited. "Oh, a nation long time, Sir," replied Mr. Holwell; "it is a queer old thing, but really is not amiss, if the silver was scrubbed up a bit, and a new lash put on; you may have it a bargain, Sir, if so be you have taken a fancy to it."
But little by little that patience which had borne up under the lash of the torturer, yielded and gave way before all these stings of insects. The bull of the Asturias who has been but little moved by the attacks of the picador grows irritated with the dogs and banderilleras. He first cast around a slow glance of hatred upon the crowd.
You were together, I saw, all night. To this the saddle only replied by grinding his teeth, and giving a lash to Daisy. 'O mercy! you'll make Daisy rear and throw me, you careless creature you: and you know, Redmond, I'm so timid. The pillion had by this got her arm round the saddle's waist, and perhaps gave it the gentlest squeeze in the world.
To revenge the lash or whip camels have been known even after a lapse of months to seize their victim, tearing and trampling him to pieces, and then with infinite relish proceed to roll time and again upon the remains. A striking and unrealistic picture the two made as they lay on their cushions alone in the desert.
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