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If the gout again attacked him or the pressure of business, which at that time constantly made more and more imperious demands upon the Emperor Charles, detained him from her on one or another evening, torturing anxiety assailed her, and she had no sleep all night.
Not half so many cold feet dangled from the cold legs of little children in the torturing churches; not half so many coughs tore the chests of the poor old men and women as they stooped over their little fires, with the blasts from door and window-sill in their ankles and the backs of their necks. Annie, who had been very happy all the time, began to be aware of something more at hand.
"Look at me," he cried; "look at me; am I not your true friend? I will do anything in the world for you." But he still went on torturing himself with his bramble branch, the most insensible of lovers. She was annoyed at his want of the commonest courage or tact. "John Hielan'man! John Hielan'-man!" she said inwardly, trying a little coquetry of the downcast eyes to tempt him.
If they want you and your sweet lady they must kill me first," and seizing a bow from the rack he drew it out of its case and strung it, and setting an arrow on the string he pointed it at the Spaniards in the boat. 'Then the others broke into shouts of: "If you want any man from among us, come aboard and take him, you torturing devils," and the like.
It occurred to me, if he should thus suddenly die, and I be found alone in his cell, I might be charged with being his murderer; and my courage, which, from long inaction, had sadly declined of late, deserted me at the thought. After the most torturing suspense, the dial at length showed me that the two hours had elapsed, and I hastened to the cell.
Throughout all these torturing thoughts, the figure of Grace came and went unceasingly. What would she do what could she do, to aid him? He had warned her not to ask Mr. Phelps to take any steps looking to his release. He realized that were Hartmann to appear now, and give him his freedom, he would not dare to accept it. That the doctor might do this very thing was his greatest fear.
The voice ceased and the cloud of passing time descended upon the vision and was lifted again and again. And each time the same voice was heard and the sound of torturing blows, but the voice of the boy was weaker every night, though it was not less brave. "I believe," it said, always. "Do what you will, you have power over the body, but I have the Faith over which you have no power."
He approached her, and took her hands, even with gentleness, between his own, though every limb trembled with agitation. "Luciè," he said, with unnatural calmness, and fixing his troubled eye on her face; "I come to bid you a long, long farewell!" "What mean you, de Courcy?" she asked, with extreme alarm; "speak, I conjure you, and relieve this torturing suspense!"
The disuse of intoxicating drinks had once cured me for a time, cured me for some years in fact, but the torturing, depressing sensation came again at last, and seemed more obstinate than ever. In 1847, as I was leaving home one day in the train, I was seized with a pain of a much more dreadful description.
But alas! no sleep came to those burning eyeballs through those long long hours, and though racked with a torturing headache and feverish thirst, he knew no way to relieve himself, and dared not move lest he should again encounter the ridicule of the brutes around him.
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