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Recently so many things had arisen to distract her attention. Many days she had not been able to keep Eileen's face off her geometry papers; and again she saw Gilman's, anxious and pain-filled.
My mind continually strays from things non-understandable to things incomprehensible from our Samurai captain with the exquisite Gabriel voice that is heard only in the tumult and thunder of storm; on to the ill-treated and feeble-minded faun with the bright, liquid, pain-filled eyes; to the three gangsters who rule the forecastle and seduce the second mate; to the perpetually muttering O'Sullivan in the steel-walled hole and the complaining Davis nursing the marlin-spike in the upper bunk; and to Christian Jespersen somewhere adrift in this vastitude of ocean with a coal-sack at his feet.
"Back there," Margaret had said at last, "back there where we played, I told you I was ready for sacrifice. I thought my God was not going to exact that, but since he has, I am ready. Priscilla, I still have God! I wonder" and, oh! how the weak, pain-filled voice had wrung Priscilla's heart "I wonder if you can understand when I tell you that I love my love better now than ever?
But though high up in the mountains, the young city was neither too far nor too high for vice to reach it; and so it came about that a certain woman, whose gold-bought smiles had become a trifle too mocking and satirical to be attractive, had come to the young city and placed herself at the head of an establishment where, at command, every one from sunset laughed and was merry, and held out hungry, grasping little hands for the gold showered upon them laughed, with weary, pain-filled eyes laughed, with stiff, tired lips sometimes but still laughed till sunrise and then, well, who cared what they did then?
She could only think of Bobs, lying in the bracken, and calling silently to her with his pain-filled eyes. Then, late on, the second evening, Jim came back with a troubled face and sat on the bed. "Norah," he said, "I want you." "Yes, Jim?" "I want you to be brave, old chap," he said slowly. Something in his tone made her start and scan his tired face. "What is it?" she asked.
But the heart is saddened, and the joy of seeing this fresh burst of resurrection loveliness is clouded, when we turn to gloomy, stifling courts and lanes in the crowded cities, where gleams of sunshine scarce ever penetrate; the lives of whose miserable inhabitants are yet more utterly devoid of brightness; to whom the voice of spring is an unmeaning sound; to sick ones in these courts, who have no easier couch for the pain-filled limbs than a heap of shavings on the hard floor of a room filled with noisy children, and disorderly men and women; to other sufferers tossing feverishly in hospital wards, with nothing softer for the tired eyes to rest on than the endless stretch of whitewashed walls, the background of long rows of patients whose sad pale cheeks vie in whiteness with the sheets and walls: and the cry ascends?
All the while that the preparations for the boys' journey went swiftly on, time, pain-filled and gloomy, dragged itself away in the two hospital rooms where the Wolf and the Weasel lay wounded. By carefully questioning his nurse, the Wolf, who was not so badly hurt as it was at first thought, found out that the Weasel was his next door neighbor.
There's no tellin' what minute your life may be in danger." "I don't believe it of Joe Lorey," Layson answered earnestly. "We fought, and he fought fair." After they had gone, Joe crept out from his hiding place among the shrubbery and looked after them with puzzled, pain-filled eyes, like a great animal's. "If they'd only knowed that I war standin' in th' shadder there!" he mused.
Your very love should urge you to accept the situation, hard as it may seem." "It does." For a moment the lovely head drooped and the white lids quivered over the pain-filled eyes. "No matter how good a man this Mr. Gaston has been to you he knew the price you would have to pay some day. He has been either wilfully weak or worse. A man takes a mean advantage of a woman in all such matters.
She shuddered and looked once more into the pain-filled eyes of the Ramblin' Kid. "We'd better be goin'," he said quietly, "you're wet an' them clothes must be uncomfortable. You can ride Captain Jack!" She stood up weak and trembling. "I I thought Captain Jack was an outlaw," she said with a faint smile. "He won't let me ride him, will he?"
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