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Stern shifted his course to southwest by west, and for some minutes held it true, so that the needle hardly trembled on the compass dial. Then all at once he, too, saw the welcome signal, a tiniest pin-prick of light far on the edge of the world, no different from the sixth-magnitude stars that hung just above it on the horizon, save for its redness.
Esperance had enormous muscular strength, and yet he was weak to resist sorrow. He could have held his hand on a brazier of burning coals, but he would have started at a pin-prick. And now that Monte-Cristo had gone, Esperance felt like a child deprived of its mother. A bell rang, announcing a visitor. He passed his hand over his brow.
"Marked, by Jove!" he cried, but with a stronger oath; "here's a pin-prick." "You are mistaken," began Hay, quite pale. "No," said Tempest, coolly, "we're not. Miss Qian told us you cheated, and we laid a trap for you. You've been trying this double card and marked card dodge several times this very evening." "And he's tried it lots of times before," said Aurora, quickly.
Socrates drinking the hemlock is a fitting and inspiring illustration of serenity. In the presence of certain and imminent death he was far less perturbed than many another man in the presence of a pin-prick. And his imperturbability betokened bigness and not stolidity. While his disciples wept about him, he could counsel them to calmness and discourse to them upon immortality.
"As many ways as there are stars in heaven; but the stars have their say in the matter! None can kill a man until his destiny says yes to it. Not even a doctor," he added, chuckling. "Otherwise the doctors would have killed me long ago with jealousy! A man dies when his inner man grows sick and weary of him. Then a pin-prick does it, or a sudden terror.
What are they to me? My hurt is greater than all, because it is my own. If it be only that day after day I must look with warm entreaty into eyes that are cold. Let it be but that peculiar trick of feature which I have come to hate, seen each morning across the breakfast table. That recurrent pin-prick: it hurts. The blow that lays the heart in twain: it kills.
And he had refused to come, declined so Diana put it to herself to share the evening's triumph with the actress who had so well interpreted his work. At least this would be a pin-prick in the enemy's side!
After all, beside this great and important question of money what were these small worries but pinpricks. The pin-prick, however, was capable of going somewhat deeper, when Catherine informed her mother that Beatrice particularly wished to have her friends, the Bells, and Daisy Jenkins as bride's-maids at her wedding. "No, no, impossible," burst from Mrs. Bertram's lips.
"Did you ever try it?" he asked, preparing his little instrument to imbibe the solution. "No; but Mr. Landa did, and it 'most killed him; it made him sick." "Well, you're about as sick as you can be, now, Mrs. Lander, and if you don't die of this pin-prick" he pushed the needle-point under the skin of her massive fore-arm "I guess you'll live through it."
I moved it carelessly away, and only felt a little pain, as if from a pin-prick; but the blood was dripping on to the floor, pat, pat. Later on, a man lit the candles on the judge's desk, and the court looked different. There were deep shadows everywhere; and the illuminated face of Lord Stowell looked grimmer, less kind, more ancient, more impossible to bring a ray of sympathy to.
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