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Yet I suppose it is not impossible for a literary layman to wince at the idea, and to shrink from the proposal, of taking part in a scheme for the formation of a Catholic Literature, under the apprehension that in some way or another he will be entangling himself in a semi-clerical occupation.
Whereas he could put a stop to the whole thing at once by behaving as if nothing had happened. He had only got to ask them down next week. "Does he want to be asked down?" I said, No, he didn't. I told him what Jevons had said that he didn't care whether he was recognized or not, but that he "couldn't stand the slur that was being put upon his wife." I saw him wince at that.
I wince at the fact, but I am not ignorant of it, that I too am laughable on unsuspected occasions; nay, in the very tempest and whirlwind of my anger, I include myself under my own indignation. If the human race has a bad reputation, I perceive that I cannot escape being compromised.
There came a queer, whizzing noise, like water squirting from the end of a nozzle; which was exactly what it was, and hot water in the bargain, not actually scalding, but of such a temperature to make a fellow wince, if it happened to sprinkle over-his face. It was all Bobolink's idea. He had brought a little garden pump aboard during the afternoon, with the hose that went with it.
"It was damned unfriendly, Mac," said Rawdon, quite overcome; and, covering his face with his hands, he gave way to an emotion, the sight of which caused the tough old campaigner opposite him to wince with sympathy. "Hold up, old boy," he said; "great man or not, we'll put a bullet in him, damn him. As for women, they're all so."
Suddenly his arm shot out of the sling, and as suddenly Hiram, though with a wince, swung it around once or twice, and the three splints holding it cracked and split audibly. "Hey, Hiram!" gasped Dave. "S-sh!" uttered his assistant warningly. Hiram ran his free hand down into his pocket. He drew out the big pocket knife he carried.
Let the proud salmon gorge the feather'd hook, Then strike, and then you have him He will wince; Spin out your line that it shall whistle from you Some twenty yards or so, yet you shall have him Marry! you must have patience the stout rock Which is his trust, hath edges something sharp; And the deep pool hath ooze and sludge enough To mar your fishing 'less you are more careful.
When we have risen to that level and are content to stand there, with no thought of self, but only of our country and what we owe her, we need wince at no hostile sneer nor dread any foreign combination.
Then he names a price that the hide might fetch, under favorable circumstances, in Boston Jethro does not wince. "Who d'ye callate to vote for, Sam'l?" Samuel rubs his nose. "Heerd they was a-goin' to put up Fletcher and Amos Cuthbert, an' Sam Price for Moderator." "C-comin' by the tannery after town meetin'?" inquired Jethro, casually. "Don't know but what I kin."
"Why yes if you think that might help you to guess hers." So he leaned back in his armchair and considered her a very long time having a respectable excuse to do so. Twenty times he forgot he was looking at her for any purpose except that of disinterested delight, and twenty times he remembered with a guilty wince that it was a matter of business.
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