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I should say, roughly, that in ten minutes the young man would be strung up to the right pitch, and that more than twenty minutes would be too much. It is important that expectancy shall have worked on him to the full, but it is still more important that his mood shall not have been chafed to impatience. The danger of over-long delay is well exemplified in the sad case of young Coventry Patmore.
"Oh, little song you sang to me A hundred, hundred days ago, Oh, little song whose melody Walks in my heart and stumbles so; I cannot bear the level nights, And all the days are over-long, And all the hours from dark to dark Turn to a little song " "Like the beat of the falling rain, Until there seems no roof at all, And my heart is washed with pain "
And it doesn't take much of a wizard to tell that your nerves aren't good to stand that strain for over-long." "The heat " "Oh yes, the heat's making you sweat streams, and sending your face chalky-green, and setting your knees to play castañetas in cachucha time. We'll call it the heat. Anyway, it's exposure to an atmosphere that you aren't accustomed to, and it doesn't suit you.
Jack looked very nice in the tans and russets of his riding-tweeds and gaiters. The chill air had brought a clear color to his cheeks; the pale gold of his hair, one unruly lock, as usual, over-long, lying across his forehead, shone like sunlight; his gray eyes looked as deep and limpid as a mountain pool. Valerie was very, very glad to see him.
Minutes passed; at her left, a candle, carelessly adjusted by the maid, dripped to the dresser; its over-long wick threw weird, ever-changing shadows; her own silhouette appeared in various distorted forms on hangings and wall. Still she heard nothing, nothing louder than the faint sounds at the window; the occasional, mysterious creakings of old woodwork.
Rilla loved life its bloom and brilliance; she loved the ripple of music, the hum of merry conversation; she wanted to walk on forever over this road of silver and shadow. It was her first party and she was going to have a splendid time. There was nothing in the world to worry about not even freckles and over-long legs nothing except one little haunting fear that nobody would ask her to dance.
He saw that her plain, gray costume, charmingly fashioned as it was, was yet somewhat worn and shabby, as if from over-long usage; that her round straw hat was shabby, too, and one of her little boots, cut and finished in such a pretty, foreign fashion, had a small hole in it. The long glove on her left hand was ripped at the finger-ends.
By way of an apologue for the aged, when they feel more than usually tempted to offer their advice, let me recommend the following little tale. He was thirteen; already he had been taunted for dallying over-long about the playbox; he had to blush if he was found among his lead soldiers; the shades of the prison-house were closing about him with a vengeance.
The arteries inside my skull were playing some devil's tune of Thumpetty Bump that caused me to see mistily, and to wish for an earthquake which would rearrange terrestrial economy. In short, I couldn't stand it any longer, and so went out for a few minutes' spell in the open. But I didn't luxuriate over-long.
And I minded me that I should do somewhat to ease this thing, lest that I cause us both to come to an harm by staying over-long in that Land. And I went back into the stones, and gat an ointment from the pouch, that I did carry. And surely the Maid did yet sleep.
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