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Something more ancient and authoritative than the thing we call Memory, demanded it this way. Why, I believe we have stood together before." Beth smiled, for the goading devil had just whispered to her, "You were a vestal virgin doubtless oh, severely chaste!"... She said, "You believe then we have come up through 'a cycle of Cathay'?"
You felt it in his laugh, which was seldom hearty; it made his sprightliness in social hours more self-conscious than it might have been. Beatrice had always felt towards him a very real humility, even when the goading of her unrequited love drove her into a show of scornful opposition.
In the meantime the French councillors were sitting in deliberation on Boulton's sentence, the result being that his life was spared. "I think I do Monsieur," and there was a knowing twinkle in the eye of the wily scoundrel. "Well, this Scott has an unbridled tongue, and is pretty certain to use it. If he does not, a little judicious goading will soon set him in his most abusive mood.
He was goading on a jackass before him, loaded with a goodly burden apparently; but what it was we could not tell, as the whole was covered by a large sheepskin, with the wool outermost. I was pricking past the man, when Mr S sung out to me to shorten sail, and the next moment he startled me by addressing the pedestrian as Colonel Gabaroche.
"And who said that I proposed not to marry him?" said she; but she still leaned over the rough stones and looked at the water. "The first thing that would make me decline would be the driving me into a corner the continual goading, and reminding me of the duty I had to perform.
"What an impulsive, high-strung chap you are!" Shaw was still grinning his wide grin. "You won't tell me?" "Of course I won't! I've told you enough now to satisfy any reasonable person. Besides, you said you had something to say to me." He was deliberately goading the younger man, and Laurie saw it. He saw, too, over Shaw's shoulder, the tense, waiting figure of the secretary.
But the habits of a lifetime are not parted with so easily; and when the Chief Inspector observed evidently with the idea of goading him on "This seems to be mainly a matter of conjecture, Gryce," his old self reasserted itself, and he answered boldly: "I acknowledge that; but conjecture is what in nine cases out of ten smoothes out many of our difficulties.
Dick, on the other hand, very much less hardened than Earle for such a nerve-trying experience as this, grew a little flurried, and caught his next mark in the shoulder, shattering the bone and goading the beast to a condition of absolutely maniacal fury, but failing to stop him until he had sent a bullet through the brute's lungs, when he halted, coughing up a torrent of blood.
If only all his wife's friends were like Margaret Halley, he mused, he might have been spared the insupportable misgivings which were goading him to madness. His mind filled with poisonous suspicions, he resumed his pacing of the library, awaiting and dreading that which should confirm his blackest theories.
"None of your risky tricks to-night!" said Carne, as he stood on the schooner's deck, in the dusk of the February evening, himself in a dark mood growing darker for his English blood supplied the elements of gloom, and he felt a dull pleasure in goading a Frenchman, after being trampled on by one of French position.
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