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At the first words the Gadfly tore his hand from Gemma's and shrank away with a stifled groan. She clasped both hands round his arm and pressed it firmly, as she might have pressed that of a person undergoing a surgical operation. When the song broke off and a chorus of laughter and applause came from the garden, he looked up with the eyes of a tortured animal.
I have not got the health to live through it." Montanelli rested his arm on the table and pondered silently. The Gadfly did not disturb him. He was leaning back with half-shut eyes, lazily enjoying the delicious physical sensation of relief from the chains. "Supposing," Montanelli began again, "that you were to succeed in escaping; what should you do with your life?"
Zora Middlemist is driven round the earth like Io by the gadfly of her temperament. She's seeking the Beauty or Meaning or Fulfilment, or whatever she chooses to call it, of Life. What she's really looking for is Love." "I don't believe it," said Sypher. Rattenden shrugged his shoulders. "It's true all the same.
Adolphe remembers an English proverb, which says, "Don't have a newspaper or a country seat of your own: there are plenty of idiots who will have them for you." "Bah!" returns Adolph, who was enlightened once for all upon women's logic by the Matrimonial Gadfly, "you are right: but then you know the baby is in splendid health, here."
"I am sincerely sorry that I did not know of all this. I would have put a stop to it before." The Gadfly shrugged his shoulders. "All's fair in war," he said coolly. "Your Eminence objects to straps theoretically, from the Christian standpoint; but it is hardly fair to expect the colonel to see that. He, no doubt, would prefer not to try them on his own skin which is j-j-just my case.
A long shudder passed through the Gadfly, and the damp cold broke out on his body. He knew what the tears meant. He drew the blanket over his head that he might not hear. It was enough that he had to die he who was so vividly, magnificently alive. But he could not shut out the sound; it rang in his ears, it beat in his brain, it throbbed in all his pulses.
And they tried to rag me in the smoking-room about not being able to hit a bird at five yards, a sort of bovine ragging that suggested cows buzzing round a gadfly and thinking they were teasing it.
This was said very dejectedly. "Tut, dearest Signorina! what gadfly has stung you? Your doubt is a weakness unworthy of your intellect; and even were it not, genius is destiny and will be obeyed: you must write, despite yourself and your writing must bring fame, whether you wish it or not." Isaura was silent, her head drooped on her breast there were tears in her downcast eyes.
"Take this, please," she said with mild authority; and sat down again to her knitting. The Gadfly obeyed meekly. For half an hour, neither spoke. Then the Gadfly said in a very low voice: "Signora Bolla!" She looked up. He was tearing the fringe of the couch-rug, and kept his eyes lowered. "You didn't believe I was speaking the truth just now," he began.
The maiden, too, when questioned on the matter, declared that he had done no such thing; and her denial was the more readily credited when it was found that the escort had not witnessed the deed. Then he who had marked the gadfly in order to give a hint, wishing to show Amleth that to his trick he owed his salvation, observed that latterly he had been singly devoted to Amleth.
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