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It was, therefore, almost wholly unremarked by his men, that the heart-stricken De Haldimar paced his quick and uncertain walk with an imagination filled with the most fearful forebodings, and with a heart throbbing with the most painful excitement.
The Teutonic nations did not want the abstract law of the scholarly judges; they want the pulse-beat of life throbbing in the court decisions, and what may be a wilful ignoring of the law of the jurists may be a heartfelt expression of the popular sentiment.
And again lo! the pulsations in all matter, all spirit, throbbing forever the eternal beats, eternal systole and diastole of life in things wherefrom I feel and know that death is not the ending, as was thought, but rather the real beginning and that nothing ever is or can be lost, nor ever die, nor soul, nor matter.
There was another grapple with the whirling peg-top, and again he mastered the dizzying confusion. Made bold by success, he got his feet on the floor and stood up, clinging to the brass foot-rail of the bed until the unstable encompassments had once more come to rest. By this time he was able to conquer all save the throbbing headache.
"I do not think I am nervous, but it sets my heart throbbing so that I cannot bear it." "I think it is the keynote of our hearts that is struck by those chords, and gives back such answering thrills. I never came across anything before that affected me like it." "Well, whatever it is, it is painfully sweet.
When the quarry was in full operation automobiles were an unknown luxury; and certainly no provision had ever been made for such a contraption passing along that crooked trail, with its numerous sharp curves intended to avoid natural obstacles. Three separate times already had Hugh brought the car to a full stop, and even caused the engine to cease its throbbing.
He had the heart of a fighter, and grit to the last tissue; but he needed it all now needed it all to stand the pain and fight the weakness that kept swirling over him in flashes. On he went, on his hands and knees, slithering from tie to tie and from one tie to the next was a great distance. The life and death, the dispatcher's call he seemed to hear it yet throbbing, throbbing on the wire.
I would have turned but for the stupidity and ill-breeding such a movement would evidence, yet as I held on my way at a slower pace and the pair approached, I felt every limb an encumbrance, I felt the country lout throbbing in every vein.
He paused, dazed by his own passion, maddened by her lack of response blinded by a mist of fire that made his senses swim and his brain reel, and crazed by the throbbing of the pulse that cried out from every vein in his body with the world-old elemental call. Was she going to close the gates of Paradise in his very face and in the very hour of his triumph rob him of the one day his little day?
"Don't for God's sake, don't!" But as she turned up her face to make her final plea, he smothered the words with his own lips upon hers. For years she had dwelt for him on the most remote borderland of unattainable dreams. Now her heart was throbbing against his own and he knew exultantly that whatever her mind might say in protest, her heart was at home there.
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