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Updated: May 4, 2025
This was to pick you up and look at you on all sides at once with the eyes in his finger-ends, which tickled you so that you lost your mind. But now, at the shrillest and tensest report of progress from the gifted watcher, all in a wondrous second of realisation, they turned to look into each other's eyes and their ecstasy of terror was gone in the quick little self-conscious laughs they gave.
Two weeks went by, weeks of the tensest scenes in the contest between the democracy and the conspirators, of whom Rasputin and the Empress were the head. Protopopoff defied the new Premier, Alexander Trepov, a hide-bound bureaucrat, as well as the Duma, and it was then that the crisis was reached. Each day we went regularly to Tsarskoe-Selo, and there another plot was quickly hatched.
'Round and round swept the eagle in wider and more splendid circles; in tensest suspense the two below watched motionless. Then the tension broke; and a dry sob escaped the girl. For the eagle had set his lofty course at last.
There followed one of the tensest "stage waits" of Mike's experience. It was not long, but, while it lasted, the silence was quite solid. Nobody seemed to have anything to say, and there was not even a clock in the room to break the stillness with its ticking. A very faint drip-drip of rain could be heard outside the window. Presently there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs.
The chief thing in all of our Lord's life, clear from Bethlehem to Calvary and the tomb, was sacrifice. It runs ever throughout; it finds its tremendous climax in the cross. And the word to put in here in quietest tone the quietest is tensest, and goes in deepest the word is this: Following means sacrifice. It means sacrifice as really for the follower as for the Lone Man ahead.
One needs costly labour, teams no end of them breakers, and big gang-plough. The farmer who has nerve enough drills his last dollar into the soil in spring, but if he means to succeed it costs him more than that. He must give the sweat of his tensest effort, the uttermost toil of his body all, in fact, that has been given him.
One cannot say that one time in the trenches is any more tense than another. One cannot take any one particular hour and call it, in modern nonsensical talk, ``typical hour in the trenches. The routine of the trenches has gone on too long for that. The tensest hour ought to be half an hour before dawn, the hour when attacks are expected and men stand to.
People would lean forward and fairly hold their breath, feeling there was a death struggle coming. And just at that very moment of tensest feeling, as we two women silently measured each other, a man's voice clearly and exultantly declared: "Well, now, we'll get the returns read, I reckon." In one instant the whole house was in a roar of laughter.
There followed one of the tensest "stage waits" of Mike's experience. It was not long, but, while it lasted, the silence was quite solid. Nobody seemed to have anything to say, and there was not even a clock in the room to break the stillness with its ticking. A very faint drip-drip of rain could be heard outside the window. Presently there was a sound of footsteps on the stairs.
Flattered by their attentions at first, the cat purred blandly as they fitted on the shoes. Jim's eyes were big and bright with tensest interest. The cat was turned loose in the grain room. To hear her own soft pads drop on the floor, each with a sharp, hard crack, must have been a curious, jarring experience.
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