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"It's all a very curious little episode." "Yes. No more than that." "Yes, it is more," cried Mina. "Without it he'd never have married Cecily." "Romance, Madame Zabriska, romance!" Southend shook his head at her severely. Mina flinched a little under the opprobrium of the word. Yet why?
I, said he, flinched and drew back, and would even have deserted in the moment of peril, and now in return, I have no consolation in the hour of repose and safety. I would not fight then, I can not pray now. O why would I ever think of being a soldier?
"I ain't I ain't afraid of him, neither," he protested. "That ain't the truth, Ham." "All right then." The elder boy filled the bucket and straightened up with business-like alacrity. "If you ain't scared of him we might as well go on back there an' tell him so. He thinks you are." Instinctively Paul flinched and turned pallid.
"But but I have a right to speak. If I am to be your wife, you must not treat me as a servant." She saw his look change. The anger went out of it, but something that was more terrible to her took its place, something that she could not meet. She flinched involuntarily, and in the same moment he drew her close to him. "Ah, Daphne, the adorable!" he said. "I've never seen you at bay before!
Penny, with all his power, was still a boy; and for a moment the child in him flinched before the exceedingly close approach of Mr. Cæsar. Cæsar's treatment came suddenly home to him.
How proudly she stepped and clucked through the arching woods with her dainty brood behind her; how she strained her little brown tail almost to a half-circle to give them a broader shade, and never flinched at sight of any foe, but held ready to fight or fly, whichever seemed the best for her little ones.
The weight of the mountaineer was so great that Tad found himself unable to squirm from under. Bob, with a growl of rage, raised his fist, bringing it down with the same movement that he would wield a meat axe. Tad never flinched as he saw it coming. His eyes were fixed upon the descending fist, his every nerve centered on the task of watching it.
Scarcely had the berg come in sight of the island when the starving brute, followed by its cub, sprang into the ocean and swam for the shore. As it prowled about in search of seals or fish, it had caught sight of Marguerite. It scented food, and with a fierce growl came shuffling with the speed of a galloping horse towards her. As she now looked upon it her heart never flinched.
"That is all I have to say on that point," said Sir James, "except " "Well, sir?" "Except that I do not know how Mistress Atherton will take this story." Ralph's face grew a shade paler yet. But his lips snapped together, though his eyes flinched. "That is a threat, sir." "That is as you please." A little pulse beat sharply in Ralph's cheek. He was looking with a kind of steady fury at his father.
We must now do what we can for him. Is he badly, hurt? Where is he? Who is with him?" The priest saw that he flinched for the first time when told that the wounded man had been taken to Ruth's room. "That was wrong," said Philip Alston, with a subtle change in his tone. "Ruth must have nothing further to do with this extraordinary and most unfortunate affair.
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