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He does not hug the log, but stands very erect, expands his ruff, gives two introductory blows, pauses half a second, and then resumes, striking faster and faster till the sound becomes a continuous, unbroken whir, the whole lasting less than half a minute.
But these long pauses between actual engagements gave the opportunity for Christian work, and General Gatacre's camp at Sterkstroom was besieged by a large number of Christian workers. In addition to the recognised chaplains the Soldiers' Christian Association, represented by Messrs. Stewart and Denman, had their large green tent, and pursued their usual work with much success.
Harrison sniffed ever so faintly, and said: "Of course, I've had experience of handwriting experts not very much, thank goodness! and you differ among yourselves so. It's any odds that another expert will find those pauses in quite different places from you, or even no pauses at all." Mr. Flexen laughed gently and said: "Perhaps. But he ought not to." "There you are.
Slowly, with many pauses, she told him what she had overheard. When she had finished Abe said simply: "But he has not told you of his love, Barbara. Perhaps you are mistaken." "No, Abe; I'm not mistaken. He has not told me not in words, but I know; I know!" "Then," said the surveyor, "he will tell you. Listen, Barbara.
"What a charming thing that is," she says, alluding, they presume, to the Elegy. She pauses here, but no one takes her up or seems to care to continue the praise of what is almost beyond it. But Julia is not easily discouraged.
A feeble return, however, and brief: in the pauses of talk, misgiving swarmed in his mind, like the leaping vermin of last night. The world into which he had been thrown still appeared disorderly, incomprehensible, and dangerous.
The old Roman alliteration, the want of due correspondence between the pauses of the verse and those of the sentence, and generally the older modes of expression and composition, are still frequently found in Lucretius' rhythms, and although he handles the verse more melodiously than Ennius, his hexameters move not, as those of the modern poetical school, with a lively grace like the rippling brook, but with a stately slowness like the stream of liquid gold.
There was exultation, almost rapture, in this quick, firm rush of understanding; deep joy in just knowing the good from the bad. But when she reached the pictures she had come to see it was different. She walked to the middle of the room, and in one slow sweep of glance, punctuated with long pauses, took them in. And she responded to them with a warm, glad rush of tears.
But no matter how he tried to dismiss the matter from his mind he had found himself asking, through the courses of that important dinner and now in the pauses of his conversation with Miss Jeffries Was there really some girl? Had he only dreamed that tense anxiety of Jack's had Jack led them on for his own young amusement?
They rode together in silence, until the Elder asked: "You ain't a Member, air you?" "No." "That's bad. I kinder misdoubted it las' Sunday; but I wasn't sartin. Ef your callin' and election ain't sure, I guess Mr. Crew oughter talk to you." These phrases were jerked out with long pauses separating them, and then the Elder was ominously silent.
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