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It made him wince, but she insisted. "And you won't have loved me." He was to remain for several days under the deep impression of this inclusive passage, so luckily prolonged from moment to moment, but interrupted at its climax, as may be said, by the entrance of Aunt Maud, who found them standing together near the fire.

I had seen Miss Bentley wince, and Miss Macy bite her lip; but neither of them dared affront the daughter of Mrs. St. Clair. Miss Lansing was herself of the favoured class, and had listened lightly. Fashion was power, that was plain. Was I willing to forego it? Was I willing to be one of those whom fashion passes by as St. Clair had glanced on my dress as something not worthy a thought.

"Poor fellow!" she whispered, "he suffers horribly when he moves, and I tried to persuade him to have his dinner sent into the parlor, but in honor of your presence he will come, and he doesn't want us to see him wince and writhe under the effort." Just as we entered the dining-room a young man came in by another door, carrying a tray with dishes.

The man seemed to wince, as though the contemplation of something was painful to him, but he looked at his companion gravely. "I think I shall screw the door up tight," he said. Alice Deringham laughed musically. "Now I think that was very pretty," she said.

Stuart, regretting the intervention, realized that he was reserved to make sport for their betters in the fiercer and more dramatic agonies of the torture and the stake. His fortitude might well have tempted them. In a sort of stoical pride he would not wince. Never did he cry out.

By neither wince nor blink had the dog acknowledged the blow. And then an entirely new kind of fear came upon the man. Was this the end for him, after all he had gone through? Was this deadly silent, rough-coated terrier the thing destined to destroy him where men had failed? He did not even know that the dog was real.

The pressure of the gun was gone and he swung around, surprised to see the floor rushing up towards him, but before it struck him blackness descended. Consciousness returned, accompanied by a thudding headache that made Jason wince when he moved, and when he opened his eyes the pain of the light made him screw them shut again.

Then Liz sat up and fixed her large, indescribable eyes full on her brother's face. 'An' will ye tak' me withoot askin' a single question, Wat? 'I can't do anything else, he answered good-humouredly. 'But I've lost my character, she said then, in a perfectly matter-of-fact voice. Although he was in a manner prepared for it, this calm announcement made him wince.

The apparition of Tartarin, haggard, thinned, dusty, his flaming eyes, and the bristling up fez tassel, sharply interrupted this tender Turkish-Marseillais orgie. Baya piped the low whine of a frightened leveret, and ran for safety into the house. But Barbassou did not wince; he only laughed the louder, saying: "Ha, ha, Monsieur Tartarin! What do you say to that now? You see she does know French."

Graham the silly specious flatteries he addressed to most women. My mother-in-law did not deign to answer him. Her manner was superb in its haughty reserve, although I could not say much for her courtesy. As he released her hand she let it drop quietly to her side and stood still, gazing at him with a quiet, disdainful look that would have made almost any other man wince.