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"Shut the door, Mr. Torridon," he snapped. "I must have a word with you." Ralph closed the door and came across to Cromwell's table and stood there, apparently imperturbable, but with a certain quickening of his pulse. "What is this, sir?" snarled the other, taking up the letter that was laid at his hand. "Is it true?" Ralph looked at him coolly. "What is it, my Lord? Mr. Robert Benham?"
"I suppose," he said slowly, "you wouldn't believe me if I told you that I'm sorry that I'd uproot them if I could?" She looked away from him in silence. He could not see her expression, only the pure outline of her cheek and a little pulse that was beating rapidly in her throat. With a sudden, impetuous movement he released her hand, almost flinging it from him.
How long have you had this fever?" "Fever! Why, sir, I have no fever," she replied, with some surprise. "Oh, child! are you trying to destroy yourself by your obstinacy? If so, like most other things you undertake, I suppose you will succeed." He held her hands and kept his finger on the quick bounding pulse.
It occurred to her that the engagement might have been broken off.... A little later, again with a quickened pulse, Miss Mapp saw the Royce lumber down from the church corner. It stopped at her house, and she caught a glimpse of sables within.
Before this he had portrayed the struggles of men and women; but now he was to portray the agony of a whole nation his heart must beat with the pulse of millions of suffering people. And the task was like a fiend that came upon him in the night-time and laid hold of him, dragging him away to sights of terror and madness.
The doctor had already taken out a note-book and pencil, and was drawing his watch from his pocket. He stepped into the summer-house, and, lifting the Oriental's limp arm, took account of his pulse. Then, with head bowed low, side-wise, he listened for the heart-action.
I felt as though not even time was moving, so dumb and spell-bound were our surroundings. Sometimes I would feel my pulse, and count its beats for half-an-hour together; anything to mark the time to prove that it was there, and to assure myself that we were within the blessed range of its influence, and not gone adrift into the timelessness of eternity.
If, after looking at your tongue, and feeling of your pulse, he pronounces you a proper candidate, his secretary puts you down on his books, and you are thenceforth relieved from all duty, and have abundant leisure in which to recover your health.
And then again, as regards criticism, I always think it may be very conceited on my part that I know a great deal more what the public want than my critics do. I declare to you I should have to take everything out of my sketches if I attempted to carry out all the suggestions that are made to me. I can absolutely feel the public pulse after so many years upon the platform.
An hour later, when she was beginning to count every beat of the old man's pulse, and look forward with dread to a midnight vigil beside that breathing corpse, the doctor came. Agatha waited for his dictum it needed very little skill to decide that. A few questions a shake of the head a solemn condolatory sigh; and all knew that the old Squire's days were numbered. "How long?" whispered Mrs.
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