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"So you do care to know?" the soft voice said, that could make the nerves of even an indifferent hearer thrill and quiver strangely. After once listening to it, it was very easy to believe the weird stories of Norse sorceresses, and German wood-spirits and pixies, luring men to death with their fatally musical tones.
It was just below the edge of the world, the edge of life. It was in the air. Any morning they might wake and find the great thing was there arrived in the night while they were sound asleep. So many things gave hints. A book might tell of it between the lines; each time a new book was opened a thrill slipped out from the pages in advance. Yet no book they knew had ever told it really.
These were the very words that had been selected for the Second Lesson, and the First consisted of those verses in which we hear of David's commencement of the continual chant of psalms at the sanctuary; and both, unwonted as they were, gave a wonderful thrill to the audience, as though opening to them a new comprehension of their office as singers of the sanctuary.
She had awakened with the thrill of those kisses still tingling her lips, so that she had covered her face with both hands in a sort of shamed joy that dreams could be so terribly real so terribly sweet, too. And then, not fifteen minutes after she awoke, and while the dream yet clogged her reason, Starr himself had confronted her when she opened the door.
The Mayor almost repeated these words with his lips, for his conscience kept echoing them over and over, till they haunted him worse even than that pale dead face. As he sat with one hand shrouding his forehead, the office door opened, and a boy stood in the entrance. A strange thrill rushed through every nerve and pulse of Farnham's frame, even before he looked up.
But there swung out a chorus from fresh, Aryan throats, in the house south of Meredith's: "Where, oh where, are the grave old Seniors? Safe, now, in the wide, wide world!" "Doesn't that thrill you, boy?" said Meredith, joining the group about Harkless's chair. "Those fellows are Sophomores, class of heaven knows what. Aren't you feeling a fossil. Father Abraham?"
Kent stood still while Marette moved in that gloom, found matches, and lighted the lamp. He had not spoken a word after the kiss. He had not taken advantage of it. The gentle pressure of her hands had restrained him from taking her in his arms. But the kiss itself fired him with a wild and glorious thrill that was like a vibrant music to which every atom of life in his body responded.
No horse or ass untrained for the mountains could have kept foot a moment where we penetrated, and even as it was, one could not help the natural thrill. No road except the bed of exhausted torrents above and through the chestnut forests precipitous beyond what you would think possible for ascent or descent. Ravines tearing the ground to pieces under your feet.
This gave him a thrill of dread, and seizing the sword that lay by the side of the corpse he hastened out of the chapel. When he reached the chapel-yard the black knights thronged again in his pathway, and cried to him with voices of thunder, "Knight, yield us that sword, or you shall die!" "Whether I live or die, it will need more than loud words to force me to yield it.
In the short struggle her hand touched mine. It made a delicious thrill run through my body. "For some minutes the air had been growing brisker, the dashing of the water stronger against the flanks of the ship. I raised myself; a great gust of wind blew in my face. The wind was rising! "The Englishman perceived this at the same time that I did and said simply: "'This is bad for us, this
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