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But the man you knew is changed." "Changed?" "Not in that way!" he said in a slow voice. "H-how, then?" she stammered, all a-thrill. "Nerve gone almost. Going to get it back again, of course. Feel a million times better already for talking with you." "Do does it really help?" "It's the only panacea for me," he said too quickly to consider his words. "The only one?" she faltered.
"One more mouthful!" she announced as she halved the last sandwich. An instant later she felt his lips brush her fingers in a sudden, burning kiss, and she withdrew her hand as though stung. She was tingling from head to foot, every nerve of her a-thrill, and for a moment she felt as though she hated him.
His voice was weaker, and I had to lean close to catch his words. "I'm going out," he said. "Kiss me, Reenie." And then I kissed him for you. Suddenly he sat up. "The mountains!" he exclaimed, and his voice was a-thrill with the pride of his old hills. "See, the moonlight on the mountains!"
As for Hamilton, that young business man found himself in a maze of perplexity, as he stood for a long time in silence, studying the fair picture of femininity there offered to his gaze. In his breast, various emotions warred lustily. He was a-thrill with elation over the possibility of outwitting the foes who had used every wile and subterfuge of trickiness to ruin him.
The words were commonplace enough and the girl did not get their import for the intensity of her gaze into the eyes whose blue fire had set her first wondering and then a-thrill with these strange emotions. "Eh, M'sieu?" she smiled, and McElroy, revived through all his being with that smile, repeated his message.
Instantaneously lassitude and vain repinings were replaced by hopefulness and energy. In a twinkling the young man was on his feet, every nerve a-thrill with excitement. Mrs. Hallam, blissfully ignorant of this surveillance over her movements, took her place in the fiacre.
And from the raft itself came a slowly swelling volume of sound, the urge and voice and exultation of red-blooded men a-thrill with the glory of this day and the wild freedom of their world. The truth came to David. St. Pierre Boulain was the beloved Big Brother of his people. He waited, his muscles tense, his jaws set tight.
But the sun did not come and Jolly Roger did not miss it over-much for his heart was full of Nada, and a-thrill with the inspiration of his home-going. "That's what it means, going home," he said to Peter, who nosed close in the path of his snowshoes. "There's a thousand miles between us and Cragg's Ridge, a thousand miles of snow and ice and hell, mebby. But we'll make it!"
"What did she mean, Ben," said Damaris at last, "by that love which understanding can forgive even even her trouble?" And to Ben Kelham came the tweeny's seventh-heaven glimpse of the understanding of real love. He rose and swept Damaris, a-thrill at the mastery, into his arms, where he held her as he might have held a child.
Noiselessly Pierre brought his gun into position, sighting one distant point from which he thought his prey would come. Adrian's body dripped with a cold sweat, his hands trembled, specks floated before his staring eyes, every nerve was tense, and, as Margot would have said, he was a-thrill "with murder," from head to foot! Oh! if the gun were his, and the shot!
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