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Roy discovered, with satisfaction, that Rose had a weakness for being read to and a fair taste in literature, so long as it was not poetry. He also discovered with a twinge of dismay that if they were many hours together, he found reading easier than talking.
He was more than ever convinced that Strange was a blackguard. Evidence he had none, only his warning intuition, which, among the male sex at least, is not considered much to go on. It gave Ambrose a shrewd little twinge of jealousy to hear Colina begging this man not to risk his life by leaving the house. About three o'clock it began to seem as if they might allow themselves to relax a little.
His father was whispering to the proprietor over the desk, and at Kurt's touch he glared his astonishment. "You here! What for?" he demanded, gruffly, in German. "I had to see you," replied Kurt, in English. "Did it rain?" was the old man's second demand, husky and serious. "The wheat is made, if we can harvest it," answered Kurt. The blaze of joy on old Dorn's face gave Kurt a twinge of pain.
"Marse Elliston done gone. What did he want, honey?" "To see Dyke," answered Nell, with a slight twinge at uttering such a monstrous falsehood. "Marse Dyke don't come yet. 'Deed but he's full of business dese times. Marse Dyke a great man, honey." If the old negress noticed traces of tears on the face of her young mistress, she was sharp enough to keep the discovery to herself.
Though often rash, he had more sense and self-control than his friends believed, and realized that Clare was not for him. He could not tell how he had arrived at this conclusion, but there it was, and he knew he was not mistaken. Sometimes he wondered with a twinge of jealousy what she thought of Brandon. By and by he roused himself from his reflections and looked about.
Those men go to their graves masked." Again the strange twinge of pain crossed John Caldwell's face. "Ah, I see," exclaimed Hare. Then quickly: "I couldn't recognize the other man anyhow; I don't know him. But Mescal can tell. He saved her and I'll save him. But how?" Every rustler, except the masked ones standing stern and silent, clamored that he was the one to be saved.
Even the breeze seemed no longer to whisper lovingly among the trees, but took upon itself the wail of a dirge, and a shower of leaves, red as blood, fell around the contestants. “Are you ready, gentlemen?” asked Mathews. “Ready!” answered Calhoun. “Ready!” said Conway. “One—two—three—fire!” Conway’s pistol blazed, and Calhoun felt a slight twinge of pain.
I had resolved to mark down no more griefs and groans, but I must needs briefly state that I am nailed to my chair like the unhappy Theseus. The rheumatism, exasperated by my sortie of yesterday, has seized on my only serviceable knee and I am, by Proserpine, motionless as an anvil. Leeches and embrocations are all I have for it. Diable! there was a twinge.
"The female of the Mohammedan species is not the free agent that you imagine," Ryder retorted, beginning with a smile and ending with a queer, reminiscent pang. He had a moment's rather complicated twinge of amusement at her reactions if she should know that to an encounter with a female of the Mohammedan species was to be attributed his departure from her party last night.
She glanced sideways once or twice at the strong, awkward man who, outpaced by the stripling, could rejoice in his promotion without one twinge of jealousy, loving him merely as one good sailor should love another. She noted him as once or twice he tried to correct his pace by hers. She compared him, all in charity, with two who had given her an unpaid devotion.
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