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The feeling, at every arrival, that he might be there gave her a tight pinch of suspense, a hammering racket of pulse-beats succeeded by an empty, sickening, sliding-down-to-nothingness sensation when she realized that he was not there, when her despair proclaimed that he would never be there and then, stoutly, she told herself that he would come the next time.
Now I want to remind you that religion is not a matter of intellectual luxury to those of us who are interested in it, but something very different. It is our life, and more than our life; for that is measured by pulse-beats, but our religious consciousness partakes of the Infinite, towards which it is constantly yearning.
I counted the irregular pulse-beats, then listened to the action of his heart, with my ear to his breast. There lay his physical trouble. I poured out a dose of digitalis, and, handing it to him, asked him to sit down. As he sat and drank the medicine, I rapidly studied him.
As they watched it dropped out of sight and everything was suddenly very bleak and black. And a curious thing happened. Naraini cried out sharply "Aho!" as if unable to contain her excitement. Somewhere in the palace behind them a great gong boomed like thunder. A pause ensued, disturbed only by the fluttering of the woman's breath: for the space of thirty pulse-beats nothing happened.
He read once more his father's wish to bequeath to him his love, "with no barrier to divide it from its desire." Hedged in by earth and hopelessly put asunder, could it at last come to fulfilment through daughter and son? At the thought his heart swelled with a pure passion all its own the eager pulse-beats owed nothing to the dead.
He had visited me with as much faithfulness as if I had been the governor, and yet with no kindness, and I know not to this day, whether he was for or against the King, or bled both sides impartially. He looked at me with no compassion, and I might, from his manner, as well have been going to be set on a throne as in the stocks, but he counted my pulse-beats, and then bled me.
But of course the sun itself is a mere trick of heat and light, a dynamo, an incandescent globe, to the man in the laboratory. To us it must be a fire upon the altar. Transubstantiation must begin. Our young magicians must derive strange new pulse-beats from the veins of the earth, from the sap of the trees, from the lightning of the sky, as well as the alchemical acids, metals, and flames.
The old clock that Marmaduke Storr made in London more than a hundred years ago was clicking the steady pulse-beats of its second century.
It had always seemed to her that a real heart beat somewhere in the mechanical organism of the red motor. Gasoline was his life's blood and his pulse-beats were only the throb of the engine, but, to Billie, he was a faithful and devoted soul and she was not quite prepared to say what she would do in order to save him from destruction.
Of the pulse-beats that lie within and vitalize this Commonweal to-day of the hard-pan purports and idiosyncrasies pursued faithfully and triumphantly by its bulk of men North and South, generation after generation, superficially unconscious of their own aims, yet none the less pressing onward with deathless intuition those coteries do not furnish the faintest scintilla.
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