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And now that faith was wanting in him, had been taken from him for all his struggles to retain it; and now indeed he danced on emptiness, the rope of temptation tightening round his neck, the weight of criminal instincts pulling it taut strangling every right aspiration in him, robbing him of the very breath of that new life to which he had thought to give himself.
"Wouldn't it have been degrading for Sir Wulfric de Talbot," said Jane dreamily, "if he could have known that half the besieged garrison wore pinafores?" "And the other half knickerbockers. Yes frightfully. Do stand still you're only tightening the knot," said Anthea. "Look here," said Cyril. "I've got an idea." "Does it hurt much?" said Robert sympathetically. "Don't be a jackanape!
There were lines in his face as if a knot at his heart were tightening them. "You mustn't blame her, ma; and, Sadie, you mustn't feel this way toward my mother. Nobody's to blame. I've been thinking this thing over more than you think, Sadie, and I I give in. She's a poor little thing, ma, that's been trapped into something she can't fit into." "Yes, Herm, that's it." "It's natural. My fault, too.
Just then he glanced up, looked penetratingly through the dust-cloud, and added, "Why, I b'lieve da' 's Tump now." With a certain tightening of the nerves, Peter followed his glance, but made out nothing through the fogging dust. When he looked around at Jim Pink again, the buffoon's face was a caricature of immense mirth. He shook it sober, abruptly, minstrel fashion.
He ordered one of the dinners he used to order, and hung up the receiver, with a smile and a little tightening about his heart at the entry he, the prodigal, would make that night at the Club. Then, seizing a map of Morocco in one hand and a schedule of sailings in the other, he sat down to plan, chanting over and over, "Paris, Vienna, Morocco, India, Paris, Vienna "
Afterwards, the same young professor, who had unconsciously been the cause of the abandonment of the proposed concert after the banquet owing to Nicholas' unreasonable anger at the rejection of his symphony himself triumphantly saved the situation and snatched the evening from the bonds of awkwardness already tightening upon the guests, who knew that music in some form there must be, but had no idea of how to compass it.
The little voyage to Rouen was performed in silence, and as soon as he had gained his palace, without seeking either Tostig or Matilda, the Duke turned into the vast hall, in which he was wont to hold council with his barons; and walked to and fro "often," say the chronicles, "changing posture and attitude, and oft loosening and tightening, and drawing into knots, the strings of his mantle."
The moment he was gone, Arthur released Mrs Finching: with some difficulty, by reason of that lady misunderstanding his intentions, and making arrangements with a view to tightening instead of slackening. 'Affery, speak to me now! 'Don't touch me, Arthur! she cried, shrinking from him. 'Don't come near me. He'll see you. Jeremiah will. Don't.
I don't know how those notes are to be paid Saturday, and have been given to understand that there are reasons, doubtless judicious, but extremely inconvenient, why they will not be renewed." His manner was as calm as ever, but there was a growing hardness in his tone and a cruel tightening of his lips. His restraint had much of the calmness of despair.
Lise heavily opened her eyes. They were bloodshot. "I don't want to get up. I won't get up." "But you must," insisted Janet, tightening her hold. "You've got to you've got to eat breakfast and go to work." "I don't want any breakfast, I ain't going to work any more." A gust of wind blew inward the cheap lace curtains, and the physical effect of it emphasized the chill that struck Janet's heart.
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