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There would be drawn battles between her and Mrs. Carlyle, if she were." A dart, as of an ice-bolt, seemed to arrest the blood in Lady Isabel's veins. "Mrs. Carlyle," she faltered. "Who is Mrs. Carlyle?" "Mr. Carlyle's wife who should she be?" The rushing blood leaped on now fast and fiery. "I did not know he had married again."
Yorke was beginning impulsively, but checked himself. Constance lifted her face and looked at him. His brow was knit, and a stern expression had settled on it. "What is it, William?" "I want to know what caused your grief just now," was his abrupt rejoinder. "And what is it that has made you appear so strange of late?" The words fell on her as an ice-bolt.
Had an ice-bolt shot to my heart, it could not have chilled me more effectually. "What a fool," thought I, "have I been making myself squandering away fine thoughts, and fine language, upon a light mind and an ignorant ear! This girl knows nothing of poetry. She has no soul, I fear, for its beauties. Can any one have real sensibility of heart, and not be alive to poetry?
"Yes," returned the man, more sternly than before "this is the grave of O'Grady." The words went like an ice-bolt through Edward's heart, and even by the torchlight the tormentor could see his victim grew livid. The fellow who wounded so deeply one so generally beloved as Edward O'Connor was a thorough ruffian.
The sickness passed off like the preceding pain; but the sensation had of late been often felt by Brandon, and disregarded, for few persons were less afflicted with the self-torture of hypochondria; but now, that night, whether it was more keen than usual, or whether his thought had touched on the string that jars naturally on the most startling of human anticipations, we know not, but, as he resumed his seat, the idea of his approaching dissolution shot like an ice-bolt through his breast.
Percival," she breathed, "mamma asked me whether I was trying to destroy the hope of an heir to Hartledon." An ice-bolt shot through him at the reminder. Better an heir should never be born, if it must call him father! "I fainted to-day, Val," she continued to whisper. He passed his arm round his wife's waist, and drew her closer to him.
The sickness passed off like the preceding pain; but the sensation had of late been often felt by Brandon, and disregarded, for few persons were less afflicted with the self-torture of hypochondria; but now, that night, whether it was more keen than usual, or whether his thought had touched on the string that jars naturally on the most startling of human anticipations, we know not, but, as he resumed his seat, the idea of his approaching dissolution shot like an ice-bolt through his breast.
What worlds would I not have given to have touched the hand of the countess's companion, though only for an instant. But and that fearful but, chilled me, like an ice-bolt. I put spurs to my horse, and dashed fiercely onwards. There was rather a high wind stirring, and I bent my face from it, so as scarcely to see the course of my spirited and impatient horse.
Atherton," whom she pronounced to be "a likely, clever woman as ever was." Scarcely had she reached her room when the dinner-bell rang, every note falling like an ice-bolt on the heart of 'Lena, who, though hungry like her grandmother, still greatly dreaded the dinner, fearing her inability to acquit herself creditably.
Five minutes to eight. Grasping the scroll, I rush to the side-entrance. The audience begin to manifest their impatience by applause. Suddenly I hear the bell of the Old South Church strike eight. The last vibration passes like an ice-bolt through my heart. Wrought up to desperation, I thrust aside the curtain.
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