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Updated: May 11, 2025
The plays, so he says, 'teem with erudition, and can only have been written by someone who had the classics at his finger-ends, modern languages on the tip of his tongue by someone who had travelled far and read deeply; and, above all, by a man who had spent at least a year in a conveyancer's chambers!
When I concluded, he rose as if he would go out, but turning back suddenly and striking the table with his clenched fist, "God!" he exclaimed. "Woman would you see me die like a dog? The neighbors! for all I know, they have got me at their finger-ends now, the vile rabble!
She ridiculed keenly the pride of fools, the vanity of parvenus, and, feeling herself of the people to her very finger-ends, she thought herself more noble than all the patricians and aristocrats of the earth.
Yet one fancied, if this girl's soul were let loose, it would utter a madder cry than any fiend in hell. "Do you mean to employ me?" biting her finger-ends until they bled. "Don't be foolish, Charlotte," whispered Storrs. "You may be thankful you're not sent to jail instead. But sing for him. He'll give you something, may-be."
He had started by thinking Lilly a peculiar little freak: gone on to think him a wonderful chap, and a bit pathetic: progressed, and found him generous, but overbearing: then cruel and intolerant, allowing no man to have a soul of his own: then terribly arrogant, throwing a fellow aside like an old glove which is in holes at the finger-ends.
"I rather think you will have to settle that question with your father, Ethel." "No. I have settled it with myself. The man has given to Dora all the love that he has to give. I will have a man's whole heart, and not fragments and finger-ends of it." "To be sure, that is right. But I can't say much, Ethel, when I only know one side of the case, can I? I must wait and hear what Fred has to say.
Darkness made them seek shelter in a pine-hut; starting from which at dawn, Lorenzo ran beating about like a dog over the place where the shots had sounded on the foregoing day; he found a stone spotted with blood. Not far from the stone lay a military glove that bore brown-crimson finger-ends.
From an opera to a ballet, from "Hamlet" to the last farce from the French, they had the literature of the stage at the finger-ends of their straw-colored gloves. They had a pretty large acquaintance with actors and actresses, and were perfect Walpoladi in the minor scandals of the day.
"There may be no woman there, but there will be a man a man indeed!" she whispered, as though communing with herself. And the eyes so soft and blue looked up, and then down, down into the soul of Hahmed the Arab, so deeply indeed that a shiver ran from her brain to her finger-ends, causing her to draw herself together sharply and to turn and walk away.
She was going to speak again, but the Doctor waved his hand downward soothingly toward the restless form and uplifted eyes. "All right," she whispered, and closed them. The next day she was worse. The physician found himself, to use his words, "only the tardy attendant of offended nature." When he dropped his finger-ends gently upon her temple she tremblingly grasped his hand.
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