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In the next, she was burning red. It was exactly as if a crimson paint had suddenly been dashed over the whole of her face. It was extraordinary. Whatever was it? That nose of hers, perhaps? a sudden frightful twinge like Rosalie once had had a sudden most awful jump in a tooth? But Anna didn't say anything and no one but Rosalie seemed to notice it. They were all intent upon father. So intent!
He looked paler than usual: almost for the first time, I had myself a twinge of misgiving as to his own health; for hitherto I had been used to blame as much as pity his fits of dangerous illness, and would often angrily remonstrate with him that he might have excellent health, would he but take reasonable care of himself, and learn the art of sitting still.
Of a sudden he glanced up at her: her knitting had slipped on to her lap: she was sitting, bunched of a heap in her chair, nodding with sleep. By the flickering light of the wood fire, she looked worn and broken: he felt a twinge of clumsy compunction.
A little after, as he stood contemplating the motionless figure, a doubt came into his face; evidently he felt a twinge of conscience a misgiving and he said with a sigh: "Well, p'raps I ought to burnt him, maybe. But I was trying to do for the best." It increased it, indeed.
I'd know 'em anywhar," he answered, more firmly than before. He noted the fact that the searching eyes of both officers were fixed upon his own coat, which was good and whole, and lacked no buttons. He had not even a twinge of conscience just now. In his meanness and cowardice his heart exulted, as he saw that suspicion was gradually lifting its dark shadow from him.
A gust of wind blew down the chimney, and scattered a cloud of dust over the hearth. The rafters creaked. Somewhere in the stillness a door slammed. The very lack of expression in his face was stamping it on my memory, and for the first time its phlegmatic calm aroused in me a new emotion. I had hated it and wondered at it before, and now in spite of myself it was giving me a twinge of pity.
'Suppose that he, to whom I belong, has work that he wants done, suppose there are people he wants taken care of and helped, if I love him and if I belong to him, what shall I like to do? 'What you are doing, I suppose, said Hazel, with a little undefined twinge that came much nearer jealousy than she guessed. 'That is very plain, and perfectly simple, isn't it?
To little Fleda, as to every simple and humble intelligence, the Bible proved itself; she had no need to go further. Mr. Carleton did not smile, for nothing would have tempted him to hurt her feelings; but he said, though conscience did not let him do it without a twinge, "But don't you know, Elfie, there are some people who do not believe the Bible?"
I wanted to make the place comfortable for you," he answered. "It is true" and he added this with a twinge of uneasiness, as he remembered that his neighbors had done much more with less incentive "that it's still very far from what I would like, but things have been against me."
But now, when they know that I am going, perhaps they may have had a twinge of conscience; that is, if they have any, and what they have given me is nothing more than conscience money." These words brought Dr. Rannage suddenly to his feet. He had always prided himself upon his self-control, but such a charge made by any man, especially a mere curate, was more than he could endure.
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