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Elaine heard a sudden decisive rustle of the paper as he folded it quickly, and then came a minute of silence which carried to her sensitive brain a strange sensation of tenseness. "What is it?" she asked. "Won't you read it out?" Rivière's voice had altered completely when he answered her. There was now a reserved, constrained note in it. "An item of news which touches me personally," he said.
Then, aloud to her: "You might have some blankets ready, in case we are turned out o' the house. The fire will be 'most sure to be put out, any way, an' you an' the boy will be cold." Mrs. Smiley was shivering with that tenseness of the nerves which the bravest women suffer from, when obliged to wait the slow but certain approach of danger.
There was a tenseness in the air, and Juste Duvarney, as if he felt a menace in the words, seemed to lose all sense of wariness, and came at me lunging, lunging with great swiftness and heat. I was incensed now, and he must take what fortune might send; one can not guide one's sword to do the least harm fighting as did we. I had lost blood, and the game could go on no longer. "Eight!"
Thus the sick woman excited herself as the hours went on. At last, in her tenseness it seemed to her that the time had already come at which the household was stirring, and she fancied she heard conversation in her daughter's room. But she found that it was only five o'clock, and not yet daylight. Her state was such that she could see the hangings of the bed tremble with her tremors.
Relaxation had succeeded tenseness. When the Grand Duke entered the great, sombre throne room, he was confronted by a punctiliously polite assemblage, but every eyelid was as heavy as lead and as prone to sink. The Prince sat far back in the great chair of his ancestors, his sturdy legs sticking straight out in front of him, utterly lost in the depths of gold and royal velvet.
Then he perceived the tenseness of the girl's attitude and hastened to swing up his rifle. "What is it? Sighted another Apache?" "No. But I put greasewood on the fire. You saw the smoke?" "A few puffs yes." The girl rose and eyed him somberly. "Few puffs, you say.... If that bunch of bronchos is anywhere within fifteen miles with a clear view this way we can expect a visit."
It was nearly sunset before we came back to town. Not a mouthful had been eaten, and with the tenseness of the night's excitement stretching every nerve, the loss of sleep, the constant searching, and the heaviness of despair, mud-stained, wearied, and haggard, we dragged ourselves to the tavern again. Other searchers had been going in different directions.
The tenseness of her pose was replaced by lethargic indifference and she relaxed into her chair. "I've known all the time you would come," she said. "It's too bad, Billie," he said. "It's tough having me wished on to you this way." "Don't play that game with me!" she flared. "Of course you've disproved every drop of human decency in advance."
Ever since she had got off the train at Willow Springs three days before there had been a great tenseness. Now it was all gone. She looked at Melville Stoner who occasionally looked at her. There was something in his eyes, a kind of laughter a mocking kind of laughter. His eyes were grey, of a cold greyness, like the eyes of a bird.
Johnny was aware that the monotonous waste below did not slip behind them quite so fast; not quite. Bland was nursing the motor along, Johnny could tell by his slight movements. It seemed to him that a tenseness had crept into the set of Bland's head. Johnny braced himself for something just what, he did not know. His knowledge of motors was superficial.
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