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I have waited for him from youth to age. I have seen him in my dreams, and in visions. I am with him continually, we talk together. At first, cringingly and softly, I lead him to recall the past, to speak of the dead wife, the lost child, her baby ways and words. I lure him on till imagination has fired his love and given life and vividness to his memory.
A silence, more horrible to his guilty conscience than the most appalling noises, follows this act; and, again the nameless terror seizing him, he shudders and draws back, until, finding the wall behind him, he leans against it gladly, as if for support. And now at last he raises his eyes. Slowly at first and cringingly, as if dreading what they might see.
When I got back to my inn, I found my brother there looking very uneasy at my absence at such an early hour. When I saw him I cried, "Rome or Paris, which is it to be?" "Rome," he replied, cringingly. "Wait in the antechamber. I will do your business for you." When I had finished I called him in, and found my other brother and his wife, who said they had come to ask me to give them a dinner.
Propped up against the now lighted lamp was a letter addressed to Monsieur Polperro in a peculiar, large handwriting. L'Ami Fritz, again uttering that queer guttural exclamation, snatched up the envelope, and hurriedly put it into his breast-pocket. "I brought that letter out of M'sieur's bed-room," observed the day-servant, cringingly. "I feared M'sieur had forgotten it!
"But she's more a friend of my wife than of mine. She used sometimes to come and spend the evening with us." He was feeling exceedingly uncomfortable. Had Anna mentioned him? He thought not. He hoped not. "What is it exactly you want me to get out of her?" he asked, cringingly. Mr. Reynolds hesitated. Somehow he did not at all like the man standing before him.
Polozov dropped into an arm-chair, groaned, 'Oh, the heat! and loosened his cravat. Then he rang up the head-waiter, and ordered with intense care a very lavish luncheon. 'And at one, the carriage is to be ready! Do you hear, at one o'clock sharp! The head-waiter obsequiously bowed, and cringingly withdrew. Polozov unbuttoned his waistcoat.
Valmont flatters himself he is not yet middle-aged, but poor Ducharme does not need his sparse gray beard to proclaim his advancing years. Valmont vaunts an air of prosperity; Ducharme wears the shabby habiliments and the shoulder-stoop of hopeless poverty. He shuffles cringingly along the street, a compatriot not to be proud of.
Smyth gave an odd, furtive look at the open door of the restaurant and the row of white tables within. A light had come into his pale blue eyes, making them uncomfortably like those of some half-starved animal. "I am at a loss to know why I should accept hospitality from you," he remarked, at once cringingly and insolently. "Simply because you would give me pleasure by doing so.
The plantation boys were embarking now. Through a crack in the door a hand thrust at him a piece of paper, and the door slammed to so sharply that Luiz stepped back. Then approaching cringingly the keyhole, in a propitiatory tone he asked: "Do I go too, master?" "Yes. You too. Everybody." "Master stop here alone?" Silence. And the half-caste's eyes grew wide with wonder.
Or, more carelessly and cringingly: "Master, gimme a Christmas gift." The lords of the soil stood round, gauging their cotton, measuring their men. Their stores were crowded, their scales groaned, their gins sang. In the long run public opinion determines all wage, but in more primitive times and places, private opinion, personal judgment of some man in power, determines.
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