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About two o'clock she gave him the new drug, he piteously consenting for her sake. Then in a mortal terror she resumed her place beside him. In a few minutes surely the pain, the leaping hungry pain would be upon him, and she must see him wrestle with it defenceless. She sat holding her breath, all existence gathered into fear. But the minutes passed. She felt the tension of his hand relax.
While Cato was engaged in this great work of forming his son's character and completing his education he found him eager to learn, and able to make great progress from his natural ability: but he appeared so weak and delicate that his father was obliged to relax the stern simplicity of his own life in his favour, and allow him some indulgences in diet.
Cynthia had suddenly grown dumb, so Mrs. Devar tried once more to relax the tension. "Do be careful, Count Edouard," she cried; "this piece of road is dreadfully dangerous, and, when all is said and done, another half hour is now of no great consequence." "If your chauffeur has really gone to Blagdon, he will not be back under an hour at least," broke in Medenham's disdainful voice.
Death was before him, and a horrible one. The boat seemed to crawl. Everything was a blur before his eyes. His fingers began to relax, and with a low cry he fell. To Thorndyke the dark corridor seemed endless. The king's last words had now a sinister meaning, and Bernardino's whispered warning filled him with dread.
Robinson knew he had been "sold," but rose to the occasion. "Excuse me, Mr. Grant," he puffed. "Can't wait now. Have an appointment. I'll see you later." Honor demanded that he should not relax that swift pace. Unhappily, the path up the cliff was visible throughout from Grant's rock, so, on reaching the summit, Robinson was a-boil in more ways than one.
He would watch her deft fingers fashioning the minute objects, and listen to her endless prattle in her soft, unknown tongue, and for a little space the pain-racked body would relax and the cruel furrows vanish from between his brows. But there were days in which the story and the song and the play had no part.
They fell apart, each panting; she leaning faint against the spinet, her bosom galloping; he muttering oaths decent and other for in the upward thrusting of her little hand one of its fingers had prodded at an eye, and the pain of it which had caused him to relax his hold of her stripped what little veneer remained upon the man's true nature.
"Well, go on; that sounds like the beginning of a letter." Mrs. Devar suddenly determined not to feel scandalized. "Ah, well!" she sighed, "one must relax a little when touring, but you Americans have such free and easy manners that we staid Britons are apt to lose our breath occasionally when we hear of something out of the common."
When the brows of Roland are gloomiest, and the compression of his lips makes sorrow look sternest, be sure that Blanche is couched at his feet, waiting the moment when, with some heavy sigh, the muscles relax, and she is sure of the smile if she climbs to his knee.
The thing was a palpable assassination; an open verdict has a tendency to relax the exertions of Scotland Yard. I hope I shall not be accused of immodesty, or of making personal reflections, when I say that the Department has had several notorious failures of late. It is not what it used to be. Crime is becoming impertinent. It no longer knows its place, so to speak.
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