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He had told her not to leave the dining-room, and she had not meant to disobey; but she had made no promise, and she could bear her suspense no longer. Where she stood, she could not see into the shell of the broken tower. She must see!
"I shall die if they are," declared Polly desperately, and sitting quite still. "They surely look like dolls on the very covers," said Alexia, fingering the cords. "Would it be so very wrong to open one box, and just relieve our suspense? Just one, Polly?" "No, no, don't," cried Polly sharply. "They belong to Phronsie. But O dear me!"
During the last years of Erasmus's life all the great issues which kept the world in suspense were rapidly taking threatening forms. Wherever compromise or reunion had before still seemed possible, sharp conflicts, clearly outlined party-groupings, binding formulae were now barring the way to peace.
"Talk about sheer pluck!" growled Captain Stephen Thorndyke, in the waiting-room, where he and Colonel Chester and Cadet Stuart were marching up and down during the period of suspense. "It's that 'Charge of the Light Brigade' that floors me," said Stuart.
With one hand on his heart and the other gripping his Bible, he mounted the steps unsteadily. "Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that ye may be healed." The woman, listening outside the window, could not endure the suspense. She entered the church by a side door, and listened not far from the pulpit steps.
One of his hands caught at the other, and held it in a tight grip. "Too much Talbot in that," he said at length, in a harsh voice. "If you go on dying for people, what'll become of you?" "And now," continued Talbot, in a dreamy way "now, when suspense and danger seem over, I am miserable simply miserable, Brooke.
The viceroy, without manifesting any displeasure at the breach of etiquette, ordered Mr. Hough to be set at liberty. Six months of painful suspense passed, and yet no tidings of Mr. Judson. That dreadful scourge, the cholera, was raging, and they were alarmed by rumors of war. Mr. Hough resolved to remove his family to Bengal, and urged Mrs. Judson to accompany them.
A letter, let it be ever so explanatory, will only leave them in suspense. As soon as they have read it, five hundred questions will suggest themselves that they will wish to ask; and, to wait to have them satisfied, will be intolerable, especially to my mother. Arthur's going will obviate this. He knows as much as we know, and can impart his knowledge to them."
What is suspense in love but a constant drawing upon an unfailing hope? a submission to the terrible scourging of passion, while passion is yet happy, and the disenchantment of reality has not set in. The constant putting forth of strength and longing, called suspense, is surely, to the human soul, as fragrance to the flower that breathes it forth.
Do not make yourself uneasy, mamma. I am determined that I will do any thing rather than marry Grimes; that is what I will." Mrs. Jakeman could not bear the uneasy state of suspense in which this conversation left her mind, and went immediately to the squire to have her doubts resolved. The manner in which she proposed the question, sufficiently indicated the judgment she had formed of the match.
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