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He showed openly his preference for an old woman, as Mary O'Gara called herself in her thoughts, wincing a little. "I've discovered that Miss Creagh knows Gillespie, the young doctor who has defied all the Army Regulations. It was quite an excitement in India. The Rajah of Bundelpore had a very bad attack of Indian cholera one night. His own doctors could do nothing for him.
The two are seen last on the deck of the vessel, in perusal of a medical pamphlet composed of statistics and sketches, traceries, horrid blots, diagrams with numbers referring to notes, of the various maladies caused by the prolonged prosecution of that form of worship. 'But can they suffer so and live? exclaims the Rajah, vexed by the physical sympathetic twinges which set him wincing.
Morgan went on a few steps farther and fired again; but though his shots evidently told, the men wincing and one falling, but only to spring up again, the fire did not check their progress, and they were fast nearing the gig. Morgan made another desperate effort to reach it, when first one and then another of the Malays hurled his spear, which went through the air in a low curve.
Meanwhile he had completely regained his ascendancy over the lower part of the school, which was not difficult, because they were wincing under Montagu's contempt, and mingled no little dislike with it; a dislike which all are too apt to feel towards those whose very presence and moral superiority are a tacit rebuke of their own failings.
"I oh don't! help! I was only defending myself from Dale. I'm weak and hurt, and " "A cowardly, malingering liar!" cried Mr Frewen, hotly. "He tried to make me believe he was very bad, groaning and wincing, and thinking he had deceived me, but I saw through him all the time." "No, no, I am bad!" groaned Walters, piteously.
She had meant not to dance not to leave her husband's side; but fate and Josiah had ordered otherwise. "Not dance! What nonsense, my love! Go at once with his lordship," he had said, when Sir Patrick had presented Lord Wensleydown. And wincing at the sentence, Theodora had allowed herself to be whirled away.
To-day it is colorless and dull, as though some animating quality that it had once possessed had forever passed from it. "You seem to have met with an accident," said Parton, when the injured man had recovered sufficiently to speak. "Yes," he said, wincing with pain, "I have.
"I will take anything," he said, relieved, and wincing under reproof. "I'd just as leave dig on the streets. Nobody knows me here." "Oh, you needn't do that," said Carrie, hurt by the pity of it. "But there must be other things." "I'll get something!" he said, assuming determination. Then he went back to his paper.
"I am glad to hear it," replied Potts, moving the cushions on his chair and eyeing the square-built bottle affectionately. "Nor to-morrow, it may be nor the day after nor at all, possibly," said Nowell. "Indeed!" exclaimed Potts, starting, and wincing with pain. "What is the meaning of all this, worthy sir?"
He took the stab of her indifference without wincing; but suddenly he was comforted, for when he began to tell her what his mother was going to do, she was sharply aroused. She lifted her head that spirited head which in the old days had never drooped; and looked at him in absolute dismay. Blair was being punished for a crime that was more hers than his! "Oh," she said, "it isn't fair!
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