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By the third he was indulging in the worst fit of despondency he ever had known. He had told her to stay a week. A week! It would be an eternity! There alone again! Could he bear it? He got through to mid-afternoon some way, and then in jealous fear and foreboding he became almost frantic. One way or the other, this thing must be settled.
So much had he been engrossed by the battle, and so great had been his excitement, that such things as sky and air had no part then in his life, but now in the long dead silence, they obtruded themselves upon him. The last wisp of smoke drifted away among the trees, and the sunlight, although it was mid-afternoon, was fading.
Mid-afternoon Abram turned Nancy and started the plow down a row that led straight to the sumac. He intended to stop there, tie to the fence, and go to the river bank, in the shade, for a visit with the Cardinal. It was very warm, and he was feeling the heat so much, that in his heart he knew he would be glad to reach the end of the row and the rest he had promised himself.
For miles we strained our eyes, looking in the direction whence these men had come. At last, in mid-afternoon, we approached the Pass, a narrow defile winding down between high hills from this table-land to the plain below. To say that we feared an ambush, would not perhaps convey a very clear idea of how I felt on entering the Pass. There was not a word spoken.
It was mid-afternoon before the "Winged Arrow" was towed across to the dock and her tanks refilled with high-test gasoline. While this was being done, Tom and Ned went to the home of Mr. Damon to ask if he would like to accompany them to the West Indies. The man was found to be sitting in an easy chair on his front porch, where he spent much time, now that he was home from the hospital.
Max had made was to change the hour for major operations from early morning to mid-afternoon. He could do as well later in the day, his nerves were steady, and uncounted numbers of cigarettes did not make his hand shake, and he hated to get up early. The staff had fallen into the way of attending Wilson's operations. His technique was good; but technique alone never gets a surgeon anywhere.
Somehow an atmosphere of unrest and uncertainty, a sensation of expectation in the face of some unforeseen calamity, seemed to hover over Merry Home. It was nearly mid-afternoon, and Inza was on the veranda, with Elsie near, when Maggie appeared, looking puzzled and frightened. "Shure, ma'am," she said, "Oi wish ye'd come up and take a peep at the choild."
Returning to Grey Pine, he explained to his cousin that letters from home made it necessary for him to leave on the mid-afternoon train. Never did Ann Penhallow more gratefully practise the virtue that speeds the parting guest.
I felt sarcastical, so I said: "Oh, sapient servant of the law, condescend to tell us, then, what you know." "That ye will all be hanged to-day, at mid-afternoon! Oho! that shot hit home! Lean upon me." The fact is I did need to lean upon somebody. My knights couldn't arrive in time. They would be as much as three hours too late.
It was mid-afternoon when the Evangeline, gliding smoothly over the polished surface of the bay, drew in towards the Consolidated dock, and Clark, watching from the shadow of a mountain of bales of pulp assembled for shipment, saw the Indian pilot amidship at the wheel and the bishop, in a big, coarse, straw hat, standing in the slim bow, a coil of rope in his hands and a broad smile on his big sunburnt face.
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