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"It was my sister's son you killed, Grassette," said the Governor in a low, strained voice. "Nom de Dieu!" said Grassette hoarsely. "I did not know, Grassette," the Governor went on "I did not know it was you." "Why did you come, m'sieu'?" "Call him 'your Honour," said the Sheriff sharply. Grassette's face hardened, and his look turned upon the Sheriff was savage and forbidding.
The tone of his voice was sharp and strained. "I don't know," he said. "The doctor may. About him that's another point! It's a nerve specialist we need! Telephone your doctor and have him send one here tonight! I'm sorry, Ethel damnably!" She got him to bed. The specialist came, and when he had examined Joe he had a talk with Ethel that left her very frightened.
"See," he said softly, looking wistfully up in the Cardinal's face, "See all the leaves and rosebuds worked in, this by the needle, and think how many human eyes have strained at it, and grown dull and blind over it!
This was all the mercy they could give to spare him the sight of his friend's slaughter. Cecil's eyes strained in him with one last, longing look; then he raised his hand and gave the signal for his own death-shot. The leveled carbines covered him; he stood erect with his face full toward the sun. Ere they could fire, a shrill cry pierced the air. "Wait! In the name of France."
She felt a wild impulse to leave her seat and advance towards him; she longed with a sudden desperation of longing to meet his eyes, to see his smile, but pride held her back. She sat motionless watching with strained eyes. One of Captain Fanshawe's companions was old, the other young a pretty, fashionably-dressed girl, who appeared abundantly content with her escort.
There was a moment of breathless silence; but no compassion anywhere upon all those strained and eager faces, except in the eyes of Fra Paolo, which seemed divine in pity, as he drew nearer the guilty man and put his arm about him to steady him.
She sat stone-still, her face set and strained, as he had seen it after the tournament. "There he is," she murmured the words a mere movement of her lips. He hated to see her look like that; and putting out a hand, he touched her arm. "I don't see him," he said, answering her murmur. "He'll be coming, though. Not nervous, are you?" She started at his touch shrank from it almost; or so he fancied.
This brings us to the closing scene of the drama, in which the king, his nerves strained to the breaking point, confronts the group of officials and others who bring to him the empty phrases of a conventional condolence: The King. Hush! Have a little respect for the truth that should follow death! Understand me rightly: I do not mean that any of you would lie.
Botha attained the post of Commandant-General through the illness of Meyer, who would undoubtedly have been Joubert's successor if he had not fallen ill at an important period of the campaign, but the fact that the pupil became the superior officer of the instructor never strained the amicable relations of the two men.
Every pulse beat with feverish excitement, every nerve was strained, every vein swollen, and every part of his body seemed to suffer distinctly from the rest, thus multiplying his agony a thousand-fold.
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