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"I've been trying," he replied without smiling, "to catch the effect of a rash action and a woman's face." "How solemn! Let me see it. Is it Mrs. Stillman's?" "No, it isn't: it's my wife's." Her half-lifted hand dropped. While her eyes met his without blenching she turned ghastly white, her face seeming to wither into sudden age. The express-train whistled.
To make a further proof, I sent two bundles of yarn to two different places to bleach; it is now returned of a very good color and perfectly strong, though it has been in blenching only a month and two or three days, and although the greater part of the Fifth Month has been unfavorable for bleaching.
And they heard him gladly, and he deemed that there would be no blenching in them, for they were all in one tale to live and die with their friends of Burgdale, and they said that they would have no other word save that to bear to the Great Folk-mote.
But that blenching light is making the corpses shine like tombstones. I try to find the low voice. There are two bodies, one above the other. The one underneath must be gigantic his arms are thrown backward in a hurricane gesture; his stiff, disheveled hair has crowned him with a broken crown.
Then through the blenching words that flashed along the closed circle of steel in all the tongues of Europe, the shrinking thought leaped to our dumb, numb mind and throbbed upon them like the insistent resounding clangor of a titanic brazen shield, as if beaten by a grimacing god: Germany is yours, O sons of men! What now? I woke at dawn to the boisterous, bold boom of the batteries of Metz.
"Are you fit to be a mother?" he asked harshly. "Wait a minute," said Lydia; she drew a long breath and took hold of the balustrade. "Yes," she answered. "Ariadne's very sick. I oughtn't to have allowed you to wean her with hot weather coming on. You'd better wire Paul." "Yes," she said, not blenching. "What else can I do?"
Bay-rummed, powdered, shorn, brisk and perfumed, we fare down the street exhaling the syrups of Cathay. Once more we can take our rightful place among aggressive and well-groomed men; we can look in the face without blenching those human leviathans who are ever creased, razored, and white-margined as to vest. We are a man among men and our untethered mind jostles the stars.
Go! those who cannot witness my power without blenching, should never seek me; and you blench like those sick girls I have seen you blench before?" "Seen me?" echoed Leslie. "Seen you!" was the fierce reply of the sorceress. "Fool! do you think I cannot penetrate that thin disguise that old man's hair and those false wrinkles?
He ate his dinner at a restaurant daily, and expended twenty-five cents for it without blenching. He went to the theater once a week, and was often accompanied by "lady friends" who were "elegant dressers." In a moment of wrath Stephen had called him a "counter-jumper," but it was a libel. So short and rough a means of exit from his place of power was wholly beneath Claude's dignity.
You marveled, not that he had endured it without blenching, but that he had endured it at all. The train stayed with us perhaps half an hour, and in that half hour at least a hundred men must have had treatment of sorts. A signal sounded and the orderlies lifted up the few wasted specters who still remained and toted them out.
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