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And remember this too, Ernest," Hoffland went on sadly; for one of the strange peculiarities of this young man was his habit of abrupt transition from merriment to sadness, from smiles to sighs; "remember, Ernest, that your determination to see her no more has probably inflicted on this young girl's heart a cruel pang: you cannot know that she is not now shedding bitter tears at the result of her trial of your feelings!
James' Street walking with Mr. Arbuthnot, and he touched his hat to me." All this gossip and good nature, and the kind and lively scene, saved Endymion from the inevitable pang, or at least greatly softened it, which accompanies our first separation from home. In due season, Mrs. Rodney observed that she doubted not Mr.
A pang of remorse shot through her heart; she stooped and kissed her with unusual tenderness, and then turned away to hide the tears which self-reproach had brought to her eyes. Mrs. Costello caught her hand, and smiling, asked what news Maurice had brought? "None, mamma. He came to ask about you." "But had he nothing to tell you about the Scotts?"
"'And your terms? asked the Intelligencer, after taking down the particulars with which the stranger had supplied him. "'Easy abundantly easy! answered the successful man, smiling, but with a stern and almost frightful contraction of the brow, as if to quell an inward pang.
On their clear faces, as in a pool, she saw the reflection of their fears. With gracious purpose she arose. 'Come, she said, 'do not be afraid of me, and took a step towards them. But alas! at the first moment, the two poor babes in the wood turned and ran helter-skelter from the Princess. The most desolate pang was struck into the girl's heart.
He dropped on his knee, left his kiss and his tears upon Lucy's cold hand; the next moment she heard his step on the stairs, the door closed heavily and jarringly upon him, and Lucy felt one bitter pang, and, for some time at least, she felt no more! Many things fall between the cup and the lip!
Miss Eyester fibbed without a pang of conscience: "I never dreamed it." "I thought you wouldn't look at anybody unless they had money you bein' rich 'n' ever'thing." "In the winter I earn my living cataloguing books in a public library. I hate it." Pinkey laid an arm about her thin shoulders. "Say, what's the chanct of gittin' along with you f'rever an' ever?"
Perhaps a cup of tea may steady your nerves." Elsie poured out the tea at once, and handed it kindly to the poor shaken woman, whose distress was very genuine. "The Daily Telegraph told me to come here. That's why I came," she whimpered at last. "But no one seems glad to see me," she added tearfully. Andrew felt a pang of self-reproach. "We are very glad," he said promptly.
But this may perhaps be regarded as only a poetic license on the part of Shakespeare; the human ivy he was picturing no doubt fed upon the tree that supported it, whether the real ivy does or not. It is also probably untrue that "The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies,"
She rose. "But I'm not going to trouble you any more you'll never hear of me again." She would not trouble him, she was going away, he would never hear of her again! Suddenly, with the surge of relief he experienced, came a pang. He could not let her go it was impossible.
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