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"At least, I am bound to him until he releases me." "Ah," said Wyllard, "that is what I was most afraid of. All along it hampered me, and in it you have the reason for my bloodlessness. It is another reason why I should go away." "For fear that you should tempt me from my duty?" The man's expression changed, and there crept into his eyes a gleam of the passion that she knew he was capable of.
But now that the Sage himself was dead, the Fool remembered his infinite patience the patience not of bloodlessness, but of a passionate soul that has conquered itself not to be soured by a fool's disappointing career, nor even by his bursts of profligacy. For Maimon's life held many more vicissitudes, but the profession of medicine was never of them.
They do not suffer from "pernicious anaemia," that evil bloodlessness which London physicians are not unfrequently called upon to cure, when the cheeks are white as paper and have to be rosied with minute doses of arsenic. They extract their arsenic from the air. The way they step and the carriage of the form show how full they are of life and spirits.
Naturally one does not give indications: but readers may be pretty confident about the fact. The comparative "bloodlessness," however the absence of life and colour in the earlier and older writer acts as a sort of veil to them.
Having a chance to enjoy his society which might never be repeated, fearing lest his rapid disease should carry him away from before her eyes, she had concluded to make the most of time, dissemble her suffering, and endeavor to conceal by art the cold bloodlessness of her face. This whimsical, worldly heroism happened to strike the gentleman strangely.
The circumstances of his death recalled that of his mother; and we might carry the sad analogy still farther in his increasing pallor, and the slow and not strong pulse which always characterized him. This would perhaps be a mistake. It is difficult to reconcile any idea of bloodlessness with the bounding vitality of his younger body and mind.
Was it not Napoleon who said that the surest way to defend is to attack? The wonder was that, wielding so keen a point, he never hurt the men. The sword might have been a lady's riding-whip, for its bloodlessness, from the stinging cuts he inflicted. But the whistle of it through the air was not the whistle of leather. It was the high, clear, terrifying note of steel.
Not only has she as a possible reader established the boundaries beyond which they might not go in speaking of sexual affairs but she has dominated the scene of their inventions with her glittering energy and her healthy bloodlessness.
At which Kane's cautiousness again embarrassed him. A little brandy from the bottle labeled "Vini Galli" seemed to be indicated, but his inexperience could not determine if her relaxation was from bloodlessness or the reacting depression of alcohol.
As he scanned his thinning line he saw a look of bloodlessness and hopelessness gathering on the set faces of which he had grown so fond during this ordeal. Some of the men were crouching too much for effective aim. "See that you fire low! Keep your heads up!" he called. "For your homes, your country, and your God! Pass the word along!"
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