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The physician gave his permission for a speedy return, but his assurance that there was no immediate danger if I was careful did not afford me unmixed pleasure. For my mother's sake and my own I desired to live, but the rules he prescribed before my departure were so contradictory to my nature that they seemed unbearably cruel. They restricted every movement.
Working frantically, he sawed back and forth. The sweat poured from his forehead, his arms and back ached unbearably, and soon he felt something warm and wet begin to trickle down the palms of his hands. He knew it was blood, but he kept on grimly, and suddenly he was rewarded. With a snap, the ropes parted. His hands were free!
Whatever thought, whatever fear, whatever glimpsing of dread possibilities in herself or in some other person had brought her to his side that afternoon was already weighing less unbearably upon her, though she had failed in her attempt to find an easing. Her mind simply could not sustain for long one idea, and in the passing moment she was always able to find distraction.
On the shallowest pretenses he would inveigle us into shirt stores, boot stores, tailor shops, glove shops anywhere under the broad sweep of the heavens that there seemed a chance of our buying anything. Anyone could have guessed that the shopkeepers paid him a percentage on the sales, but in our blessed innocence we didn't until this feature of his conduct grew unbearably prominent.
Deeply troubled, and more and more distressed as time went on by new disturbing thoughts, she hurriedly paced from side to side of the long, narrow chamber in the gathering darkness. The revolting images around her began to affect her unbearably once more.
Infinitely more than I. I've been trying, but I haven't got very far." He laid down the tool once more and locked his hands together. "You have been trying?" he repeated. The tension, like the grip of his hands, was drawing up almost unbearably. "There's a French baritone there, Fournier, who could play your officer's part. As you meant it to be played, I think. But he doesn't sing in English.
"And mind you are not to dress for dinner." He turned with that and left her. She was not sorry to be alone, for her head was throbbing almost unbearably, but she would have given much to know what was in his mind.
The rhythmic friction of stone against steel prolonged suspense unbearably. All kinds of speculation crowded my mind while the leisurely performance went on. The grass was growing rapidly; faster than vegetation had ever grown before. Could it grow so quickly the farmer's scythe couldnt keep up with it? Suppose it had been wheat or corn?
"I had thought of an Airedale," she said thoughtfully, "but " "They're good dogs, but quarrelsome fight all the other dogs round about. Now William isn't a fighter unless he's unbearably provoked, then, of course, he fights to kill." "Oh dear!" sighed Jan, "that's an awful prospect. Think of the trouble with one's neighbours " "But I assure you, it doesn't happen once in a blue moon.
Frayling put her arm round Damaris' waist, affectionately, laughingly, and drew her towards the door. "Come, come, darling child don't be too complimentary or Marshall will grow unbearably conceited. You'll put on flannels, by the way, Marshall, won't you?" she added as an after-thought. "I shall not play tennis this afternoon," he answered, his nose in the air.
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