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The vizier turned towards the telephone in his lair. "I say " said Edward Henry. "Sir?" "I suppose one will be enough?" "Well, sir, as a rule, yes," said the vizier, calmly. "Sometimes I get a couple for one family, sir." Though he had started jocularly, Edward Henry finished by blenching. "I think one will do ... I may possibly send for my own car."
'My faith, replied Vandeloup, carelessly taking the seat, 'there isn't much to tell I said goodbye to Monsieur Marchurst and Mademoiselle Kitty and went down to Ballarar. 'How was it you did not pass me on the way? asked Madame, quickly fixing her piercing eyes on him. 'I drove slowly. He bore her scrutiny without blenching or even changing colour.
The suggestion leaves my British withers entirely unwrung, for I approve of bold innovation in language, trusting to the impermanence of the unfit to counteract the effects of licentiousness. If I could believe that we British were the bolder innovators, I should admit it without blenching; but observation and probability seem to me to point with one accord in the opposite direction.
Within Belsaye men aye, and women too! have endured the torment, Orson. To-day, at sundown, a noble man doth burn, Jenkyn." "Why, look'ee, master," spake Jenkyn, bold-voiced yet blenching from Beltane's unswerving gaze, "look'ee, good master, here is no matter for honest woodsmen, look'ee " "Aye," nodded tall Orson, "'tis no matter of ours, so wherefore should us meddle?"
Captain Jim had often talked to Anne of lost Margaret since he had told her the old story. His love for her trembled in every tone that love that had never grown faint or forgetful. "Anyway, I hope when my time comes I'll go quick and easy. I don't think I'm a coward, Mistress Blythe I've looked an ugly death in the face more than once without blenching.
She opened it, and I told her in a few words of our plans. She received my communication without blenching. To tell the truth, anything might well have seemed better to her than imprisonment in that half ruined tower, for that is what it really came to.
"Why him, for sure!" said Diana suddenly, pointing at the narrow-eyed fellow who, blenching before her fierce look, turned to flee. "It's Hooky Sam!" she cried, and in that moment leapt upon him. Ensued a moment's scuffling and Diana sprang away, the stolen mirror in her hand. "Here's your trinket!" she cried, tossing it to its gaping owner. "Next time it's stole, don't go blaming the wrong one."
By a terrible effort he kept himself from visibly blenching at her words. He stood still holding her hands, feeling himself a villain to the very lowest depths of his soul, but looking quietly down at her, with even a slight smile on the lips that do what he would had turned pale the ruddy firelight glancing on his face prevented this change of color from being seen.
Justice is to be done, and your neck shall be bent despite your stubborn pride. Derider of priests, despoiler of purity, mocker of Holy Church, your impious reign is at an end." Tressan fell back aghast, his face blenching to the lips; for if justice was at hand for her, as the Abbot said, then was justice at hand for him as well. Where had their plans miscarried?
It was all hopeless wheel within wheel, link added to link. Well, it was over finished. Ann tried to face the fact without blenching. Love had come, for a brief moment transmuting her whole world, and now love had gone again, and it only remained to take up the burden of life once more. Perhaps it would be easier soon.
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