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In him more than in Jolyon, with his masterful will and his moments of tenderness and philosophy more than in Swithin, the martyr to crankiness Nicholas, the sufferer from ability and Roger, the victim of enterprise beat the true pulse of compromise; of all the brothers he was least remarkable in mind and person, and for that reason more likely to live for ever.
Since Low Town possessed one of the most famous physicians in England, Abbey Hill magnanimously resolved not to crush him by a rival. Abbey Hill let him feel its pulse.
Her heart beat violently, and she heard every sound in the house. At last, when it was twelve, she heard Mr. Budd go out; she heard the door slam. Dempster had not moved. Was he asleep? Would he forget? The minute seemed long, while, with a quickening pulse, she was on the stretch to catch every sound. 'Janet! The loud jarring voice seemed to strike her like a hurled weapon.
With his hands clasped under the tails of his coat he walked twice about the building, stopping to peer in at all the windows, then he paused and took stock of his surroundings. Over the way was Pegloe's City Tavern; farther up the street was the court-house, a square wooden box with a crib that housed a cracked bell, rising from a gable end. The judge's pulse quickened.
He did not wait for her to reply, believing her to be speechless as usual, but placed her in a chair and began to feel her pulse. She was trying to speak all the time, but from excitement and a strange dizziness that had come over her, she could not at once use her new faculty.
Please, sir, do not be so cruel; I'm so lonely without her." He turned with anguished eyes to the grave gentleman who had placed a hand on the dear mother's pulse. Again she spoke: "My boy, you must understand, God has called me I am dying. In the morning I shall not see your dear eyes; I shall never touch your head again. Oh, dear, dear head oh, soft curls!"
It always seemed like there was something missing at the Quarter Circle KT," he went on, his voice grown softer and trembling a bit, "and and when you came I I found out what it was " Ophelia sat silently with downcast eyes, her pulse racing, the license unfolded on her lap, while she bit uncertainly at the tip of the finger of her glove.
I was not at West Lynne, but in its neighborhood. The fact is, when I was a careless young fellow, I was stopping a few miles from here, and got into a scrape, though a a in short it was an affair of gallantry. I did not show out very well at the time, and I don't care that it should be known in the country again." Mr. Carlyle's pulse for Richard Hare's sake beat a shade quicker.
It whispered that the winter was passed and that spring had come. Soon the snow would melt and the sodden earth would throb and pulse with vernal activity, and it would be impossible not to rejoice with Nature. The snow thickened into a grey shining crust under the warm rays of the sun, to deepen into blue where the shadows fell.
Townshend, who possessed the remarkable faculty of stopping at will not only his respiration, but also the beating of his heart. He performed the experiment one day in the presence of Surgeon Gosch, who cared for him in his old age, two physicians, and his apothecary, Mr. Shrine. In their presence, says Gosch, the Colonel lay upon his back, Dr. Cheyne watched his pulse, Dr.
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