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"You are better for this ride," remarked the doctor, as he handed her from the carriage. "I think so," replied Mrs. Carleton. "There has not been so fine a color on your face for months." They had entered Mrs. Carleton's elegant residence, and were sitting in one of her luxurious parlors. "Shall I tell you why?" added the doctor. Mrs. Carleton bowed. "You have had some healthy heart-beats."
But of this he was unconscious; all that he wanted, all that he was striving for with agonising heart-beats and cracking sinews, was to get to his friend, who was lying in there unconscious, abandoned dead, perhaps. "Curse you," struck Heron's voice close to his ear. "Cannot some of you stop this raving maniac?"
And indeed none can know save they who have felt it what joy there is in the full rush of language which, moves and sways; to feel a crowd respond to the lightest touch; to see the faces brighten or graven at your bidding; to know that the sources of human passion and human emotion gush at the word of the speaker, as the stream from the riven rock; to feel that the thought that thrills through a thousand hearers has its impulse from you and throbs back to you the fuller from a thousand heart-beats; is there any joy in life more brilliant than this, fuller of passionate triumph, and of the very essence of intellectual delight?
In Athens the local color was superior to ours, but George Marion stage-managed the mob better than did the Athens police. Athens is in a perplexed state of mind. She does not know if she wants to go to war or wants peace. She does not know if she should go to war, on which side she wants to fight. People tell you frankly that their heart-beats are with France, but that they are afraid of Germany.
At last; one evening, she thought she observed in the motions of the light that something fresh was happening: she had so often questioned this poor flickering star, and she had so often let it count her heart-beats more than twenty times, that to spare herself the pain of disappointment, for a long time she had no longer interrogated it; however, she resolved to make one last attempt, and, almost hopeless, she put her light near the window, and immediately took it away; still, faithful to the signal, the other disappeared at the same moment, and reappeared at the eleventh heart-beat of the queen.
It was meant to fall on the flagged floor and break; it would create a diversion, and picking up the pieces would give her time to get used to the suffocating heart-beats.
"But you must restore me to the bosom of my family soon!" "More's the pity!" said Stane to himself under his breath; his heart-beats quickening as he looked at her radiant face and laughing eyes; whilst openly he said: "I will do my best. You will be able to help me to paddle against the current, and no doubt in a little time we shall meet a search-party coming to look for you."
Lord Blythe watched him for a moment, moved by strong heart-beats of affection and compassion. "Pierce," he then said, in a low tone "I know everything!" Armitage turned on him sharply. "You you know? What? How? "She Maude told me all," said Blythe, gently "And I think your wrong to her was not so blameworthy as her wrong to you!
What a blessed attainment at last; and that it should be here among these everlasting mountains, midway between the Atlantic and Pacific, seems significant of the true growth of the individual the center pure, the heart-beats free and equal. At Salt Lake City they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
He knew that the discharge would point out his place of concealment, and did not doubt that the volley intended for Fremont would be turned upon himself, but the knowledge did not swerve him from his purpose. He counted the next seconds by his own fierce heart-beats. Thirty-four. Thirty-five. Thirty-six. It seemed to him that a second was never so short before.
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