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Updated: May 16, 2025
Many an author smarts under injuries and indignities which he might resent to the advantage of literature and civilization, if he were not afraid of being browbeaten by the journal whose nameless critic has outraged him. The public is now of opinion that it involves loss of dignity to creative talent to try to right itself if wronged, but here we are without the requisite statistics.
"We are getting on," he said in a satisfied way "only got to smug a couple of krises, and there we are. I say, my leg smarts, and I should like to have a look at it; but I won't light a match, because it would be risky in amongst these leaves and I ain't got one. Well, that will do for to-night, so good-night. I am beginning to think I am tired."
"Well," explained Gaines, with just a touch of pride, "you see, for studying blood flow in the extremities, I slip this cuff over my arm, we'll say. Suppose it is the effect of pain I want to study. Just jab that needle in my other arm. Don't mind. It's in the interest of science. See, when I winced then, the plethysmograph recorded it. It smarts a bit and I'm trying to imagine it smarts worse.
"It is because it smarts like the devil," replied the artist, in a milder tone, for he realized the ridiculousness of his anger; "since you have hurt me, try at least to ease the pain; they say that to blow in the eye will cure it." "No. I'll do nothing of the kind I don't like to be spoken to harshly."
The good man hesitated a moment before making response: then he took both the hands of Loretz in his, and said in a deep, tender voice, "Brother, the wound smarts." "I cannot bear it!" cried Loretz. "It is all my doing, and I must have been crazy." "When in devout faith you sought to know God's will concerning your dear child?" "I cannot talk about it," was the impatient response.
Occasionally, I tried to take the long-hoarded sting out of these compunctious smarts by attending divine service in the open air.
I do not understand you," So quickly had the "smarts" of the new generation forgotten the "fair Blandy" of their fathers' toasts. To Mr. Horace Bleackley's brilliant study of the case we have already in the Preface referred.
I explained that I had come to see our housekeeper. "Asleep," he said. "Don't disturb her. Let's have a look at your wound." He drew me into his rough room, and gave me no little pain as he rebandaged my leg, Pomp standing by and looking on. "Oh, that's all right, my lad," said the doctor. "Smarts, of course, but you'll soon mend up. Very different if it had gone into your chest.
"If you sass me, I'll box your young ears an' that's what!" "I don't think!" added Spike. "Nobody ain't goin' t' box me. I'm a sure enough invalid, and don't you forget it." "My land!" exclaimed Mrs. Trapes, "a bit of a hole in his arm, that's all." "Well, I wish you got it, 'stead o' me it smarts like sixty!" "Shows it's healin'. Doctor said as it'll be well in a week."
'Nevertheless, for your stake you have cast down a very little: three nights of bed and board against the chaining me up. 'Husband, she answered. 'More than that you shall have. He wriggled a little beneath his furs. 'Husband is an ill name,'he commented. 'It smarts. 'But it fills the belly. 'Aye,'he said. 'Therefore I am minded to bide here and take with the sourness the sweet of it.
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