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Updated: September 22, 2025
As they sit or stand at the throttle, with hand upon the lever and eyes on the lookout for danger, and as they feel the heart-throbs of their engine drawing its precious freight of a thousand souls through the darkness and the storm, they cannot help realizing that this is real life invested with great responsibilities; and with this thought ever before them, they become men who can be trusted anywhere.
Aileen, my Aileen, why should I ever let you go?" A kiss closed the lips that were about to reply a kiss so long and passionate that the girl felt her strength leaving her in the close embrace. "He will speak the 'word' now surely," she told herself. Between their heart-throbs she listened for it. The "word" was not spoken.
His creations are statuesquely moulded like Goethe's, but they have the same quick music of heart-throbs that Shakespere's have. Hawthorne is at the same moment ancient and modern, plastic and picturesque. Another generation will see more of him than we do; different interpreters will reveal other sides.
There they are at peace; they feel nothing, do nothing, know neither sorrow nor joy, gain nor loss; there is neither air nor water, winds nor storms, no flowers or living creatures, no war, no kisses, no heart-throbs neither birth nor death; only "nothing," and perhaps memory.
But his hand was firm, and his head was steady, for that which he held in charge was the dearest thing in life to him. Three hundred blessed feet was the span of the Coupée. How fervently he wished them three thousand ay, three million! For every step accorded him a throb, and heart-throbs such as these are among the precious things of life. Neither of them spoke one word.
As she finished relating the meager facts which to her denoted so many heart-throbs, a sob drowned her voice. As Aleck followed the story, his own eyes wavered. "That's Jim, down to the ground. Good old boy!" he said. There was silence for a minute, then he heard Agatha's voice, grown little and faint. "If he should die !" Aleck, still standing by Agatha's couch, suddenly shook himself.
The same authority tells us of Correggio, that he has painted 'the very heart-throbs of humanity. But it seems as if such a nature, with its self-conscious veil of forced stillness, must have had a tendency to vehemence and excess; and so we hear that Correggio's fore-shortening was sometimes violent, and the energy of his actors spasmodic; thus the cruelly smart contemporary criticism was pronounced on his frescoes of the 'Assumption of the Virgin, in which legs and arms in wild play are chiefly conspicuous from below, that Correggio had prepared for the Parmese 'a fricassée of frogs. In addition, the great modern critic, Mr Ruskin, has boldly accused Correggio 'both of weakness and meretriciousness, and there is this to be said of a nature so highly strung as Correggio's was strung, that it was not a healthily balanced nature.
Annesley stood still, rigid in every muscle, fighting to control her heart-throbs, that she might be ready to answer a flood of questions. She dared not even let her thoughts rush ahead. It was all she could do to face the present. The rest must take care of itself. He had said that she would "make a good actress." Now was the moment to prove that he had judged her truly!
The Philadelphia blew a warning blast, the remaining passengers quickened their movements, there was but little baggage left now upon the deck, and still the two Italians stood talking volubly. Donnelly waited stolidly near by, never glancing at his man. Blake held himself with an iron grip, although his heart-throbs were choking him.
But that she should excite such heart-throbs, that she should evoke such phantoms with nothing but her beauty, her flowers, her motley costume, and a certain trick of dancing she had learned from some merry-andrew; and that without a word, without a thought, without even appearing to know it! What was chaos, if it required seven days to make such a being?
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