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Stupefied with horror, Howland strained his ears to catch the rest of the cold-blooded scheme which he was overhearing, but the voices grew lower and he understood no more that was said until Croisset, coming nearer, called out: "Help me with the M'seur before you go, Jackpine. He is a dead weight with all those rawhides about him."
The strained, preoccupied mind of the High Churchman had never taken the smallest account of his presence, of which Robert had been keenly, not to say humorously, conscious throughout. But after a minute or so the tutor got up, strolled forward, and addressed Robert on some Oxford topic of common interest.
"I mean," he said, "that the flame has scorched her, but it has never actually touched her." "You know that?" Bunny's voice was hoarse. There was torture in his eyes. "Man for God's sake the truth!" "It is the truth," Saltash said. "How do you know it? You've no proof. How can you be sure?" He could not help the anguish of his voice. The words fell harsh and strained. "How do I know it?"
'That, or something else, it is true, cost me my sleep from twelve to four, my lord. But the tree is to come down tomorrow, so I shall not hear much more from it. 'I applaud your determination. It can hardly be wholesome to have the air you breathe strained, as it were, through all that leafage. 'Your lordship is right there, I think. But I had not my window open last night.
Here she dropped off to slumber in spite of herself; the scene of the evening before seemed to be repeated; the cries of the many people, the heavy roar and dash of the threatening waves, were repeated in her ears; and something was said to her through all the conflicting noises, what it was she could not catch, though she strained to hear the hoarse murmur that, in her dream, she believed to convey a meaning of the utmost importance to her.
Ellen rubbed her head doubtfully, and tried to fix her attention again upon her book, but presently it came again; a prick so small and fine that it strained consciousness; an infinitesimal point of torture, and this time Ellen, turning with a swift flirt of her head, caught the culprit.
With a desperate effort, Kenkenes choked the first desire to laugh that had seized him in months. "Nay, let it pass, Nechutes," he said in a strained voice. "Thou and I are friends. But lead me to the king, I pray thee." "To the king?" the cup-bearer repeated doubtfully. "The king sleeps. Will thine interests go to wreck if thou bidest till dawn?" "I carry him a message," Kenkenes explained.
I removed the telescope from my eye for a minute or two to give my strained and smarting eyeballs a rest, and closed my eyelids in order to completely exclude from them even such dim and uncertain light as still remained; then, knowing exactly where to look for the stranger, I once more pointed the instrument in that direction, searching the horizon closely and carefully for the smallest blur that might betray her.
"Oh!" he gasped in surprise, as he strove to call his pride to his assistance. It was so unlike what he had anticipated that it amazed him to have such a disappointing reply. Then, recovering somewhat: "Very well!" with great deliberation, while his voice sounded unnaturally strained.
The quarrels between sects and divisions, the petty subjects which rouse the ire of the orthodox mind, the persistent quibbling over insignificant details of faith and service, have strained rationalistic patience to the breaking-point. The Church has been found fiddling whilst Rome burns. Our little rationalists are right, perfectly right, when they point to the shortcomings of the Churches.
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