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Updated: May 26, 2025
"That noise." They both listened, breaths held waiting between their lips, their heads raised strainingly from their pillows. On the other side of the wall was Mr. Arthur's room, and from their beds they heard muffled sounds as of a person speaking. They waited to hear the other voice in reply. There was none. He must be speaking to himself. Sometimes the voice would stop.
Her face was very pale, and her eyes fixed strainingly on her mother, but she did not speak. Madame Famette's vexation had made her cross, and Marie's pale face increased her trouble: "How naughty thou art then, Marie! I set thee a knife and a plate: thou hadst but to stretch out thy hand. Ciel! but the market tires!" She cut a slice of bread for her daughter, and then she seated herself.
His mind, fixed strainingly upon this one, all-engrossing object, lost its balance, and he could no longer reason upon his own course, or see its futility, or devise a better.
The descent was a gradual one, down into a beautiful valley. For a mile or two the road was perfectly straight and the rider, shading his eyes, glanced along it. In the distance a moving object attracted his attention, and as he gazed at it, long and strainingly, the terrible smile once more wreathed his white lips.
For a few seconds there followed an awful struggle great wings beating mightily downwards, beak hammering, and fangs meeting the hammerings with audible clashings. It seemed that the bird could not quite lift the beast, and that the beast could not quite retain connection with solid earth. And then the bird rose, slowly, strainingly, with her vast pinions winnowing the air with deep "how-hows!"
On this plan they agreed. Very naturally the girl was strainingly eager to relieve the anxiety of her parents to let them know she was safe again. Allen and Frank, being the stronger of the boys, volunteered to carry the slight girl she was young, scarcely sixteen for the first half mile. Then the other two boys were to carry her the rest of the distance.
In this only the true Quaker, or Friend, has faith; and it is from rigidly, perhaps strainingly carrying it out, that both the Old and New England records of Quakerdom show some unseemly and insane acts.
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