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But in the present glad hour of restored security his head no longer in danger of plopping, hideously bodiless, into la veuve's basket, his inner-man, moreover, so recently and rackingly evacuated by that abominable Channel passage, now comfortably relined with Tandy's meat and drink he went further in the way of acknowledgment.
The din of the evening before fills his ears; he is chased, as if by furies, by memories of the indignities put upon him. He is so sore he cannot sit; when he goes his joints hurt rackingly.
And even as she smiled a great lump came into her throat, and the bruise blurred before her eyes, and she was crying rackingly, relievedly, huddled there in her red plush corner. It was eight o'clock when she let herself into her apartment. She had given the maid a whole holiday.
When he had exhausted every resource his imagination suggested, he sat in the straw, smoking and brooding, his mind incessantly seeking some way out of his plight. At intervals he shouted, pounded, and whistled. He walked the floor, and reëxamined it and the cellar walls. He looked at his watch. It was three o'clock in the morning. He was exhausted, and his body still ached rackingly.
At the sight a wild surge of mirth overwhelmed Hal's hair-trigger nerves. He began to laugh, with strange, quick catchings of the breath: to laugh tumultuously, rackingly, unendurably. "Stop it!" shouted Dr. Elliot, and smote him a sledge-blow between the shoulders. For the moment the hysteria was jarred out of Hal. He gasped, gurgled, and took a step toward his assistant. "Hey, Mac! Wake up!
Rackingly above the crash and lilt of music, the quick, wild thud of dancing feet, the sharp, staccato notes of laughter she heard the dull, heavy, unrhythmical tread of the oncoming years gray years, limping eternally from to-morrow on, through unloved lands, on unloved errands. "This is the end of youth. It is it is it is," whimpered her heart.
Then he took the wheel of his wheezy little car and without another word drove frenziedly and rackingly through the quiet streets till the Willis house was reached. Winnie, mindful of Rosemary's plea, came out to the curb to meet them. "Well, Winnie, I'm glad to see you again," was Miss Wright's greeting. "You and I are to keep house and look after these flighty young folks, I understand."
Laurie groped vaguely amidst sensations of relief and the mental confusion with which, someway, she always filled him. "You're all right, aren't you? And you expected me, didn't you?" "Yes, but Oh, don't make me talk! Let me cry." She was crying as she spoke, rackingly, and every sob tore his heart. Again, as so often before, he felt dazed and helpless before the puzzle she presented.
And then he saw her bow her head upon her folded arms like a little child, and weep in great sobs which came rackingly as if torn from the core of her heart. Dr. Slavens picked up his hat, put it on, got to his feet, and took a stride away from her as if he could not bear the sight of her poignant sympathy. Then he turned, came back, and stooped above her, laying his hand upon her hair.
I've got this gun loaded to the guards, and you know I'm aching for an excuse " He stopped and coughed again, hoarsely, rackingly. Then he lay quiet, except for his rasping breath and watched. Billy Louise, with the tablet on her trembling knees, pretended to write. From under her lashes she watched Ward curiously. She saw his attention waver, saw his eyes wander aimlessly about the room.
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