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"How would you like to be shut in little, stuffy rooms, and set to droning over books and papers every hour of the day, all your life, and to spend the best of your brain and bodily strength straightening out other men's quarrels?" "Oh Laddie, you just couldn't!" I cried. "Precisely!" said Laddie. "I just couldn't, and I just won't!" "What can you do?" "I might compromise on stock," he said.
And finally up rose that termagant, Mistress Longman, straightening her back with a spring as if it were whalebone, showing us her face shameless with rage, and stained green with tobacco juice, and here and there red with blood, for she had slashed ruthlessly.
Instantly he landed in the middle of the aisle on all fours, and, straightening up, began groping sleepily for his clothes. Phil laughed and chuckled. "How do you feel, Teddy?" "Like a roast pig being served on a platter in the cook tent. Do you need a net this morning?" "No, I think not. I'm rather sore where I got cut, but I guess I am pretty fit otherwise."
"Well," Gifford answered, smiling, and straightening his broad shoulders, "if there is work to do, I am glad I am here to do it. But I'm not hopeless for the life it indicates, when you say there's much to be done. The struggle for personal rights and advantages is really, you know, the desire for the best, and a factor in civilization.
A moment or two later the young officer, with a visible straightening of his body, rose, bowed, and walked out of the tent. None followed him; for it was instinctively understood that he should return to report his failure or success, before retiring for the night. The ranked order of the table was now broken up.
Lorimer, if he had been present, would have known what to expect from the straightening of his shoulders and the sudden squaring of his jaw; but Bobby Dane, who had been watching the apathy in which his friend was buried, was distinctly nervous. Then, at the first note, his nervousness vanished, leaving in its place only wondering admiration.
I roamed about the park a prey to a thousand doubts, and then wandered into the open country unconsciously. It was a glorious night. The full moon was pouring down floods of soft light upon the ploughed lands, all parched by the heat of the sun. Thirsty plants were straightening their bowed stems each leaf seemed to be drinking in through all its pores all the dewy freshness of the night.
"I don't know," said John, straightening up and tossing back his hair. He pushed a plate up to the pan, supplied and passed it. Then he helped himself and fell to eating. "Have you seen Dr. Sevier to-day?" asked Mary, cautiously, seeing her husband pause and fall into distraction. He pushed his plate away and rose. She met him in the middle of the room.
If you've no respect for yourself, you might have that much respect for me! And before strangers, too! "Oh, I mustn't come where YOU are, eh?" remarked the peccant Theodore, straightening himself with an elaborate effort. "You've bought these woods, have you? I've got a hundred friends here, all the same, for every one you'll ever have in your life, Red-head, and don't you forget it."
As the countess entered, he advanced toward her slowly, bowed low and raised her pretty hand to his lips with respectful courtesy; then, straightening himself up, he gazed at her for a moment as if dazzled, and cried, admiringly: "Ah! countess, I have never seen these diamonds! I don't believe you could find their equal anywhere. Heavens! how beautiful, how magnificent they are!"
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