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Never till then its meaning nor even thought upon its meaning. Then! Upon that thought "Dear Harry!" had come, with a catch at the breath as at an obscure twinge of pain, a tremor of the sense that was its meaning: thereafter flooding all her being as floods a flood a pasture. A longing to be mother, Anna's longing was!

Ross's twinge of fear faded. If the judge didn't like it, there must be something in it to the advantage of Ross Murdock. He'd grab it for sure! "There is a government project in need of volunteers. It seems that you have tested out as possible material for this assignment. If you sign for it, the law will consider the time spent on it as part of your sentence.

But we've come and we'll fight!" Then the Frenchman put on his coat. That showed him to be an officer. He wore medals. The dark glance he then flashed over Dorn was different from his first. It gave Dorn both a twinge of shame and a thrill of pride. It took in Dorn's characteristic Teutonic blond features, and likewise an officer's swift appreciation of an extraordinarily splendid physique.

"He has, Lawrence; but I will not have my friends spoken of in that way." "Your friends indeed! What do you intend to do about it?" Meanwhile her hand, persistently kept in her pocket, nervously moved the electric armature, and a sudden twinge of pain startled her. Her finger, caught between the wires, felt the shock of a returning current. Suddenly the pain flashed again, and she understood it.

I would keep it up. "Have you taken leave of your senses?" I demanded, assuming an indignation I did not feel. "Dr. Pettit was saying nothing to me that could possibly interest you." I felt a little twinge of conscience at the fib, but I had too much at stake to hesitate over a quibble.

He dearly loved to annoy others. And he gave Turkey Proudfoot a sly glance. "Ouch!" he exclaimed. "I have a twinge of rheumatism." "Where is your pain?" asked Turkey Proudfoot. "In one of my drumsticks," said old Mr. Crow promptly, with a spluttering cough, to keep from laughing. Turkey Proudfoot was furious. "Cranberry sauce and drumsticks!" he exclaimed.

The sense he had so often had, since the first hour of his disembarkment, of being further and further "in," treated him again at this moment to another twinge; but in this wonderful way of her putting him in there continued to be something exquisitely remorseless. "Monsieur de Vionnet will accept what he MUST accept.

He is by far the most contemptible of the figures in this passage. He thought of our Lord as of a magician or juggler, who might do some wonders to amuse the vacuous ennui of his sated nature. Time was when he had felt some twinge of conscience in listening to the Baptist, and had almost been lifted to nobleness by that strong arm.

When he was mildly admonished that a site seemed to presuppose a church, he assented, and with one great plunge, during which he distinctly felt, both that his position as landlord was not to be defended, and that this good use of the money might make things more secure, he gave a promise to build one felt a twinge of compunction, and a glow of generosity, but blushed hotly when Mr.

He related certain intimate incidents which had aroused his first twinge of suspicion. He was revoltingly frank "I spoke to her plainly," he said. "'What's the matter with you, Dora? I asked her. 'Don't you like me any more? And she got wild and said she hated me like poison. She never talked to me like that before. It was a different Dora. She was always downhearted, cranky.