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"Why, they had to get fifteen or sixteen wounded men away," I cried, and then winced. "And serve 'em right," said the doctor. "Here, Bob!" Bang, bang! "What's that?" "Bigley's signal; and by the way, doctor, the poor lad is wounded too. Come along and see." "No, I'll go," said the doctor. "You are not fit." "But I'm going all the same," cried my father; and I saw them go off along the cliff path.
"Nothing," mumbled little Eve Edgarton. Out of some emotional or purely social tensities of life it seems rather that Time strikes the clock than that anything so small as a clock should dare strike the Time. One two three four five! winced the poor little frightened traveling-clock on the mantelpiece.
"See!" cried Araminta, extending a dimpled hand. "See my ring! It's my engagement ring," she added, proudly. Miss Evelina winced a little behind her veil, for the ring was the one Anthony Dexter had given her soon after their betrothal. Fearing gossip, she had refused to wear it until after they were married.
You haven't thought anything about it, you haven't had time." "Oh, yes, I have, mama!" replied Suzanne. "I've thought a great deal about it. I'm fully convinced. I want to do it then because I told Eugene that I would not keep him waiting long; and I won't. I want to go to him. That will make a clear two months since we first talked of this." Mrs. Dale winced.
"Why not, pray? She's a young woman still what many people would call young," Mrs. Memorall interjected, with a parenthetic glance at the mirror. "Why not accept the inevitable and begin over again? All the King's horses and all the King's men won't bring Rendle to life-and besides, she didn't marry him when she had the chance." Danyers winced slightly at this rude fingering of his idol.
Violette has her revenge for making a plaything of her heart, and if the dead can take any satisfaction she " With a quick movement Kennedy anticipated a motion of Pierre's. The ruined smuggler had contemplated either an attack on himself or his captor, but Craig had seized him by the wrist and ground his knuckles into the back of Pierre's clenched fist until he winced with pain.
Enguerrand, who certainly was so far a born Parisian that with all his shrewdness and savoir faire, he had a wonderfully sympathetic heart, very easily moved, one way or the other Enguerrand winced at his elder kinsman's words complimentarily reproachful, and said in unwonted tones of humility: "Cousin, you are cruel, but you are in the right.
"You shall drink the same by and by in a dish o' tea; which I reckon will suit ye best this morning," she added eyeing him. "O.P., put on the kettle." Ben Jope winced and attempted to turn the subject. "What's your cargo, this trip?" he asked cheerfully. "I didn't write," she went on, ignoring the question. "O.P. took me so sudden." "Oh, Sarah!" Mr. Pengelly expostulated.
Whether my face of anger and bewilderment was too much for them, or some among them lacked patience to see the end, a sudden uncontrollable shout of laughter, in which all the room joined, cut short the farce. God knows it hurt me: I winced, I looked this way and that, hoping here or there to find sympathy and help.
"I think I shall fit it," he said slowly. Mrs. Brand's critical glance weighed his smallness, his immaculateness, his difference from her own great sons. "Yes," she said, with the open rudeness of the country-bred; "yes, you ain't very big." Van Alen winced. Even from the lips of this uncouth woman the truth struck hard. But he carried the topic forward with the light ease of a man of the world.
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