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"These thousands, and tens and twenties of thousands, of American young men, badly wounded ... operated on, pallid with diarrhoea, languishing, dying with fever, pneumonia, etc., open a new world somehow to me, giving closer insights, ... showing our humanity ... tried by terrible, fearful tests, probed deepest, the living souls, the body's tragedies, bursting the petty bonds of art.
Then in a sort of terror she rejoiced to think she was partially engaged to Ferdinand, and found herself crying again with exultation, that he had not kissed her: for a kiss on her mouth was to Rose a pledge and a bond. The struggle searched her through: bared her weakness, probed her strength; and she, seeing herself, suffered grievously in her self-love.
He had been introduced to this matron, and to her son who appeared to be about his own age. He probed briefly, finding her a good sort but a little too impressed with her own importance new-rich, he guessed. The boy he disliked on sight he seemed a selfish, pampered brat.
"Do you mean you don't remember getting up, and coming out here?" continued the scout-master, who always probed things to the very dregs, or until he had extracted all the information possible. "Not a thing," reaffirmed Bumpus, and his face showed that he was speaking only the truth.
"Well," she said, "there is at least a physical resemblance, and though I haven't probed the matter very deeply, yet I've not abandoned it." Then she laughed and turned to Ainslie. "You and Miss Stirling can thrash out the question." She strolled away, and Ainslie watched Ida, whose eyes were following Miss Weston at the tennis net.
Dinsmore's confession into his hands, bade him read it; and this is what his eager eyes perused: "MY DEAR MONA: You who have been the darling of my heart, the pride of my life; you have just left me, to go to your caller, after having probed my heart to its very core.
With a shout, I ran toward it; but, though I struck and probed among the bushes with my stick, I neither saw nor heard anything further; and so returned to Pepper. There, after bathing his wound in the river, I bound my wetted handkerchief 'round his body; having done which, we retreated up the ravine and into the daylight again.
How would she keep her secret then? How hide her soul from those grave, keen eyes that probed so deeply? Ah! but he trusted her; he trusted her! Back to the old sheet-anchor flew her whirling thoughts. His faith in her was invincible, unassailable. It kept her safe. It sheltered her from every danger. It was her single safeguard in temptation; without it she would be lost.
King was pushed out into the larger room, where he was confronted by a crowd of bewhiskered men and snaky-eyed women with most intellectual nose-glasses. It required but a glance to convince him that the whiskers were false. For nearly an hour he was probed with questions concerning his business in Edelweiss.
The major declared, with great chearfulness, that he did not apprehend his wound to be in the least dangerous, and therefore begged his sister to be comforted, saying he was convinced the surgeon would soon give her the same assurance; but that good man was not so liberal of assurances as the major had expected; for as soon as he had probed the wound he afforded no more than hopes, declaring that it was a very ugly wound; but added, by way of consolation, that he had cured many much worse.
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