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Now commenced a scene to which nothing I ever before conceived of war could in any degree compare: the whole ground, covered with combustibles of every deadly and destructive contrivance, was rent open with a crash; the huge masses of masonry bounded into the air like things of no weight; the ringing clangor of the iron howitzers, the crackling of the fuses, the blazing splinters, the shouts of defiance, the more than savage yell of those in whose ranks alone the dead and the dying were numbered, made up a mass of sights and sounds almost maddening with their excitement.
You turn this over and let me know your ideas." "And that reminds me," said Dewing with smooth insolence, equally maddening to both hearers, "that Eric's ideas have been notably justified of late; whereas your ideas and mine have been stupid blunders from first to last. You see me at a stand, friend Mayer, doubtful if it were not the part of wisdom to transfer my obedience to Eric hereafter."
Falconer leant back and smoked contemplatively, with a coolness, an indifference to the other's emotion which Sir Stephen found well-nigh maddening. "Yes," said Falconer, after a pause, "I suppose your house of cards would come down with a crash if I opened my mouth say, at breakfast to-morrow morning, and told well, all I know of the great Sir Stephen Orme when he bore the name of Black Steve.
The longer it remained an anticipation, the more distant the day when it became a memory.... With a groan of "Oh, my brain's softening and I'm becoming a sentimentalist," he opened the letter and read Lucille's loving, cheering yet agonizing, maddening words: Dam groaned aloud. "Four o' rum 'ot, is wot you want, mate, for that," said the industrious self-improver at the shelf-table.
Thus progress was slow and fraught with agony. As they rose near the pass, miles of Arctic wastes bared themselves. All about towered bald domes, while everywhere stretched the monotonous white, the endless snow unbroken by tree or shrub, pallid and menacing, maddening to the eye. "Thank God, the worst's over," sighed Willard, flinging himself onto the sled.
You need not fear that I shall trouble you. I shall not see you again. You are maddening no, not that but I am mad. Mad!" He turned abruptly to go, came back as hastily, caught my hand and pressed hot kisses on it. His burning eyes looked passionately into mine. He was indeed like one insane. Then with a great groan of contrition he put his hands before his face and rushed blindly from the room.
My best is like a five-finger exercise compared with the foolishest thing she ripples off. Her music tells me things oh, things wonderful and unutterable. Mine tells me, 'one-two-three, one-two-three. Oh, it is maddening! I work and work and get nowhere. It is unfair. Why should she be born that way, and not I?"
"But as a little token between us " She drew back, pushing the case across the cloth; "I couldn't dream...." "But if I insist ?" "If you insist?... Why I suppose ... it's awfully good of you." She flashed him a maddening glance. "You do me pro honor," he amended hastily. Then, daringly: "I don't ask much in exchange, only " "A cigarette?" she suggested hastily. He laughed, pleased and diverted.
In that moment, he realized something of the maddening, galling restraint of the bondage under which Garth Trent had lived for years the bondage of silence, and, within his pickets, his hands were clenched when he halted again at Sara's side. "Why?" he shot at her. She hesitated. Then she caught her breath a little hysterically.
If he had been anything but a ghost, he would have been split vertically from top to toe; but as it was, the poker passed harmlessly through his misty make-up, and rent a great gash two feet long in Jarley's divan. The yellow sneer faded from his lips, and a maddening blue smile took its place. "Humph!" he observed, nonchalantly. "What a useless ebullition, and what a vulgar display of temper!
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