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At the first of the stairs on which she set her foot to descend, an all-mastering hesitation, an unintelligible shrinking from some peril unknown, seized her on a sudden. She waited, and reasoned with herself. She had recoiled from no sacrifices, she had yielded to no fears, in carrying out the stratagem by which she had gained admission to St.
His crowning achievement last night, however, was the actual singing of a Tarentella by Rossini a kind of movement which we have hitherto heard only from instruments a whirling, spinning, delirious, top-like movement in which the singer seems galvanized and tyrannized by one too happy and all-mastering idea in spite of himself.
He even allowed his wife to upbraid him for not having confessed this to her at the time of their marriage engagement, rather than risk anything by hinting at the truth. The sacrifice of his integrity before his one all-mastering delusion seemed but a small thing, and cost his conscience but little after the sacrifices he had already made.
That one check to her hopes a check which at other times would only have roused the resisting power in her to new efforts had struck her with as suffocating a terror, had prostrated her with as all-mastering a despair, as if she had been overwhelmed by the crowning disaster of expulsion from St. Crux. But one warning could be read in such a change as this.
He stood stupidly silent on the doorstep. His anger was gone; an all-mastering fear throbbed heavily at his heart. The landlady looked at him, and said to her secret self: "Just what I suspected; there is something wrong!" "Perhaps I have not sufficiently explained myself, sir," she resumed with grave politeness. "Mrs. Ronald told me that she was staying at Ramsgate with friends.
It cost Philip Hardin no heart-wrench to part with voluptuous Hortense Duval. Partners in a crime, the stain of "French Charlie's" blood crimsoned their guilty past. An analytical, cold, all-mastering mind, he had never listened to the heart. He supposed Hortense to be as chilly in nature as himself. Yet she writes but seldom.
The step he had determined to take gives the measure of his eagerness in the pursuit of her of his conviction that he could not live without her; and the object of this great, this intense, this all-mastering passion had been snatched away from him; the unappeasable agony of such a bereavement can, perhaps, only be adequately measured by those who have felt it.
In the all-mastering agitation of the moment, she clapped her hands together, and cried out suddenly in the darkness: "Miss Vanstone again!!!" She got out of bed and kindled the light once more. Steady as her nerves were, the shock of her own suspicion had shaken them. Her firm hand trembled as she opened her dressing-case and took from it a little bottle of sal-volatile.
You would not incur such hare-brained risks unless you cared very greatly; and yet, somehow, I do not believe it is altogether for me you care." Then Guido was in train to protest an all-mastering and entirely candid devotion, but he was interrupted. "Most women have these awkward intuitions," spoke a melodious voice, and turning, Graciosa met the eyes of the intruder.
The old story was not for his telling. Nor did he ask himself why. It was as though a power which was all-mastering forbade him to speak further. "Have you seen Will to-day?" Eve suddenly inquired, with apparent irrelevance. "I half expected to " And she broke off purposely. The look in Jim's eyes hardened to one of acute apprehension. "You were expecting him?" "Well, not exactly, Jim."
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