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I mean those who are designated by such appellations as sparing, close-fisted, niggards, are all deficient in giving; but other men's property they neither desire nor are willing to receive, in some instances from a real moderation and shrinking from what is base.
Peter Portgartha, in the depth of the rumbling wagonette, was paying his tribute to shrinking female modesty as exhibited on Mousehole rocks. After doing this Barrant returned to the empty lounge, where Mrs. Pendleton sat in partial darkness with tearful face.
Sandro stood facing her, moody and troubled, fingering his brushes and bits of charcoal; his shaggy brows were knit, he seemed to be breathing hard. He collected himself with an effort and looked up at her as she stood before him shrinking, awe-struck, panting at the thing she had done.
She was so calm, so engaging, so natural; her voice had the same soft and caressing tones, that he could not forget it. She plunged her hair-pin into the fatal vial without ceasing her conversation, and he did not surprise her in any shrinking or shuddering, nor even a trembling of the eyelids. She must have been made of brass.
These were true martyrs who did so, men and women so full of the Holy Ghost that they counted not their lives dear unto them, so upheld by God's power that the shrinking of the flesh from that dreadful pain and horror was almost forgotten.
She drew back with a sudden shrinking of her whole body. "Oh, I know, I know!" she said. "I sometimes think there is a devil in Nick." She turned aside, bending once more over her father's things, putting them together with unsteady fingers. So this was the answer to the riddle the secret of his choice for her! She understood it all now. After a short pause, she spoke again more calmly.
To all appearance he has never in all his life loved any one as he did this unhappy sister; and struck with a respect for the grief which has outlived many a man's lifetime, I was shrinking back when he caught my hand, and with a convulsive strain, contrasting strongly with his tone, which was strangely measured, he cried, "Do not forget the end!
Pale, confused, conscience-stricken, the bewilderment of intoxication mingling with that of fear, Houseman turned a ghastly look around him, and, shrinking from the eyes of all, reading in the eyes of all his condemnation, he gasped out, "Search St. Robert's Cave, in the turn at the entrance!" "Away!" rang the deep voice of Walter, on the instant; "away! To the cave, to the cave!"
My son, I see the shrinking and astonishment in thine eyes; but yet I would for a moment that thou couldst see with mine. I spoke awhile ago of the judgment of an angry God. Wherefore, thinkest thou, is it that His anger is so hotly burning against those lands that call themselves by His name that call day by day upon His name, and make their boast that they hold the faith whole and undefiled?"
Ashe was consciously matching steps with the companion who also drew him along a flowing line of fire. In this last instant Ross realized the time for retreat was past there was no place left to go. His hands went out, though he had to force that invitation because in him there was a shrinking horror of this surrender. But he could not let the others go without him.
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