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The contractor was a big hulk of a man, physically as strong as a bull, with reddish hair, small twinkling eyes, a puffy nose mottled with veins, thin lips shaded by a bristling red mustache, and a heavy jaw. The red fell of hair on his hands reminded Warrington of a sow's back. Everything about McQuade suggested strength and tensity of purpose. He had begun work on a canal-boat.
She crossed the room at the luncheon summons in the nervous tensity of mood that an actress might go to play a part in which her career would live or die. Every half hour with Kerissen was now a duel, every minute was a stroke to be parried, and she flung herself into that duel with the desperate exhilaration of such daring.
His mouth worked. Obviously he was under a tensity of endeavour in keeping his faculties set to the problem. The surgeon watched him, frowning. "There was no fire," said the captain. Slade leaped in his chair. "No fire! But I saw her, I tell you. When I went overboard she was one living flame!" "You landed in the small boat. Knocked you senseless," said Trendon. "Concussion of the brain.
There was a moment of tensity. Then: "If I should do it," said Richard, regarding steadily a dog in the road some hundred yards ahead, "would you feel any respect whatever for me?" "Dead loads of it, I assure you." "Sure of that?" "Why not?" "Be honest. Would you?" "You promised me first," said Lorimer. "I know I did.
He felt strangely pleased that she had drawn away from him when his hand touched hers. Some instinct told him that their old friendship had given place to something else something as yet too vague to describe. She was not angry with him, he knew. Her face was troubled. He gazed at her as they rode and his heart yearned for her tenderly. Life had suddenly assumed a tensity that silenced them.
His voice was harsh with the tensity of passion, and the cry that struggled from her throat for utterance was smothered by his lips on hers. The burning kisses seemed to scorch her consuming, overwhelming her. When at last he took his mouth from hers she tried unavailingly to free herself. But his clasp of her only tightened. "Now you know how I love you," he said grimly.
The fräulein wishes it." The rush of color induced by physical effort effort of a tensity that Helen was wholly unaware of was ebbing now before a numbing terror that had come to stay. His face was drawn and livid. His voice had the metallic ring in it that the girl had detected once already that day. Again she experienced a sense of bewilderment that he should regard a trivial thing so seriously.
Finally the brother-in-law went over to where Sally was still sitting with her eyes fixed on him in a dumb tensity of waiting. "Ye compelled me ter harken ter ye," he said, "but I hain't got no answer ready fer ye yit. Hit all depends on whether ye're tellin' me ther truth or jest lyin' ter save Ken's neck, and thet needs ter lie studied.
He rose and, coming to her side, stood looking down at her. "Will you?" he said. "Will you?" Something more than the artist spoke in his voice. It held a note of passionate eagerness, a clipped tensity that set all her pulses racing. She turned her head aside. "Yes," she answered, a little breathlessly. "Yes if you want me to."
Which, young man, is about all you need to know." Maggie looked on breathlessly at the two men, bewildered by this new light in which Hunt was presented, and fascinated by the tense alertness of her hero, Larry. Slowly Larry's tensity dissipated. "I don't know about the rest of your make-up," he said slowly, "but as a painter you're a whale."
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