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The noise of the rushing, falling water shut out other sounds. Gazing at the dancing thimbles she was unaware that someone had entered the room behind her. Suddenly two hands were laid upon her shoulders. The shock, going through her, was like a violent electric discharge. She tingled from head to foot, and almost with terror. "Augustine!" she gasped.

As he ran Avon cast furtive glances over his shoulder, and his heart tingled when he saw that he was steadily drawing away from the four figures which seemed to have sprung from the ground itself. "Keep it up, boys," he muttered, "and see where you land. If you can down me in this style, you are welcome."

There was no light, no ray of hope to comfort her. There, as it seemed to her, in that tomblike abode, lay the end of all her happiness. In her heart was only the prayer that she might find him able, still to recognize her. At her father's gesture she stepped to the door and stopped. The blood went first to her heart, and then flamed back into her face. Her cheeks tingled.

He listened dully and confusedly to the service until the time came when the bishop elect made his vows. He heard the strong voice of Strathmore, vibrant, deliberate, penetrating, repeat with slow solemnity the promise of conformity and obedience to the doctrine and worship of the church. The words tingled through the mind of Ashe like an electric shock.

She winced yet smiled: "And still your cousin he's receive' no order?" Her fingers tingled to maim some one this dolt anybody! Her eyes sweetened. Irby spoke: "The order has come, but " "What! you have not given it?" "Flora, it includes me! Ah, for one more evening with you I am risking " Her look grew fond though she made a gesture of despair: "Oh, short-sighted! Go, give it him! Go!"

If Pepsy's red hair had been short enough it would have stood on end; as it was her fingers tingled with mingled appeal and confidence in the head of the firm. Would it stop? Oh, would it stop? The suspense was terrible. "F r resh doughnuts!" called Pee-wee in a sonorous voice. "Ice cold lemonade! It's ice cold! Get your fudge here!" Pepsy looked admiringly upon her hero.

Glorious fires burned in the cooling skies and the sweet breath of autumn tingled in the air. There was comment, and the shaking of heads among the old trappers. The wrong time of year to take the long trail with women, the wrong time, but, bon Dieu! who was to stop that woman with the sombre eyes? Voila! A woman to thrill the blood in any man who was still warm with life!

Kurt tingled all over as he followed the official out to the car and took the seat given him beside the driver. "Back to Glencoe," was the order. And then, even if conversation had been in order, it would scarcely have been possible. That driver could drive! He had no fear and he knew his car.

I have heard a great many of higher rank than either of us speak of you, and if you had been present your ears would have tingled; but I never heard a single officer of any rank suggest that you owed your rapid advancement to anything but your professional skill and your unflinching bravery, as well as to your absolute and hearty devotion to your country. I rank you in date, Mr.

"I say!" cried the child; then he added indignantly, "I never ran away, I came to see you, because you are going to be my tutor. I didn't think it was such a long way. And pony got hungry. And so was I." "Going to be his tutor!" It was Minnie's voice that said this so sharply that the air tingled with the words: and even Mrs.