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They did not thin away and vanish until they were high in the clear, intensely cold blue sky. When his eyes had followed the rings a little while he turned them toward the eastern horizon and watched there closely. Despite all the efforts of his will his heart throbbed hard. Would the answer come? He waited a full half hour, and then his pulses gave a great leap.
With a crash of breaking brushwood the mare went down under the plunging hoofs that came thudding so heavily upon her, there was a quick shriek a blur of violet and gold hurled to the ground and then, then Leach galloped on alone! He dared not look back! His nerves throbbed his heart beat high, and his evil soul rejoiced in its wickedness as only the soul of a devil can.
Harmony was at the door, but not the sad-eyed Harmony of a week before or the undecided and troubled girl of before that. A radiant Harmony, this, who stood in the doorway, who wished them good-morning, and ran up the old staircase with glowing eyes and a heart that leaped and throbbed.
Her eyes, lips, and hair certainly were. How his heart throbbed as he asked himself the question whether this young girl, who was endowed with every gift which constituted the true worth of womanhood, was not preferable to her more attractive sister Barine! when the thought darted through his mind that he had cause to be grateful to the beard which covered his chin and cheeks, for he felt that he, a sedate, mature man, must have blushed.
His words stuck in his throat where his heart was, and for a minute his eyes had a kind of mist before them. Meanwhile Charley's eyes were upon him, curious, fixed, abstracted. "Is this your house?" "It is, M'sieu'." "You fished me out of the river by the Cote Dorion?" He still held his head with his hands, for it throbbed so, but his eyes were intent on his companion. "Yes, M'sieu'."
There was no promise, no word spoken I could construe into a pledge, and yet there was invitation, a suggestion, vague but comprehended, which youth could not easily ignore. My veins throbbed with anticipation already was my arm about the slender waist, my eyes looking into her own. For a dance with her, a possible understanding, I was willing to venture life itself.
Had their hearts ever throbbed with eager longing to know to feel life in its fullness? Seating himself at one of the battered desks he tried to bring back the days that were gone, and to see about him the faces of those who once had filled the room with the strength and gladness of their youth. He felt strangely old in thus trying to feel a boy among those boys and girls of the days long gone.
The heart of the officer throbbed almost to suffocation; and his firmness, hitherto supported by the manly energies of his nature, now failed him quite. Heedless of appearances, regardless of being overlooked, he tottered like a drunken man for support against the mainmast.
Before all these people She would not do it." But he trembled and his heart throbbed so cruelly that he could not bear the pain. She was pretending to cry. "They wired us you had started for Tampa on the hospital ship," She was saying, "and Aunt and I went all the way there before we heard you had been sent North. We have been on the cars a week. That is why I missed you. Do you understand?
His heart throbbed high, and he felt as if the breeze that his heaving breast inhaled in deep breaths was as fresh and pure as the ether that floats over Elysium, and of a strange potency withal, as if too rare to breathe. Still he fancied he saw before him the image of Klea, but as he stretched out his hand towards the beautiful vision it vanished a sound of hoofs and wheels fell upon his ear.
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