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"For some days after I left you the last time I found great difficulty in concentrating my mind on my work. . . . I was dissatisfied." "Then I succeeded!" The amethyst eyes, devoid of all hardness now, caressed Michael and disturbed his nerves. The woman was very beautiful, and he was conscious that her mind was set on her desire to win him.
Nora had had a narrow escape from death at the first shot, though, while she had not been hit, the bullet had grazed her cheek, leaving a red mark across it. Frequent volleys into the cave, after several hours, set the nerves of each of the Overland Riders on edge.
Above all, he tingled from the electric atmosphere of intense religious excitement; he was charged with currents at a pressure so high that his nerves were unresponsive to dull details of ordinary life. Nothing just then mattered except the saving of souls. Having faithfully attended the camp-meeting for three weeks he found other interests blotted out.
It was almost as light as day; only in the yard the trees cast a slight shadow of tangled branches, leafless as they were. There was a suppressed sense of excitement, a strained thrill of the nerves that made thumby work of their handling the buckles.
Parks answered it almost instantly, and I could tell from the way his face changed how glad he was to see me. "Well, Parks," I said, as we stepped inside, "everything is all right, I hope?" "Yes, sir," he answered. "But but it gets on the nerves a little, sir." I heard a movement behind me, as I gave Parks my coat, and turned to see Rogers sitting on the cot.
Costello and Lucia found their journey from Cacouna to New York a very melancholy one. They had gone through so much already, that change and travel had no power to stimulate their overstrained nerves to any further excitement; the time of reaction had begun, and a sort of languid indifference, which was in itself a misery, seemed to have taken possession of them.
With my foot on the first step, I paused. It seemed to me, I heard a movement, apparently from the buttery, which is to the left of the staircase. It had been one of the first places I searched, and yet, I felt certain my ears had not deceived me. My nerves were strung now, and, with hardly any hesitation, I stepped up to the door, holding the lamp above my head.
She can hardly compose herself to sleep, so busy and excited are brain and nerves. The musicale is a success, one of the enviable events of the season, and there is a most charming supper afterward. Violet's enjoyment is so perfect that she takes herself quite to task for not being better friends with madame, since Mr. Grandon really desires it.
An' while I was figgerin' on that till the sweat come out on my forehead, I turned agin, an' there agin was the bear's face starin' round the rock not more'n a foot away. "You'll understand how my nerves was on the jumps, when I tell you, boys, that I was scared an' startled all over again, like the first time I'd seen it.
Viola couldn't attend to him properly; and if the stranger happened to be rather stupid, like Charlie Thesiger, Jevons didn't blaze and so cover himself; he got bored; and when he was bored he got jumpy; and it was when he got jumpy that he did things. And Charlie was getting on his nerves.
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