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January 29th was fixed for the production of the opera, and the days sped rapidly. Everybody concerned was on tenterhooks. Who could say how the audience would take a play the like of which they had never seen? There was also danger in the political allusions contained in many of the verses.
And then ensued a period of rather trying inactivity, during which Jack and Carlos were kept constantly on the tenterhooks of expectancy, vainly striving to get some inkling of the intentions of the enemy.
I did think we must be ruined, from your ways of going on; eating no meat at dinner, and sighing continually. And now what is it? 'I hardly know how to tell you, Sally. I really don't. Miss Phoebe began to cry; Miss Browning took hold of her arm, and gave her a little sharp shake. 'Cry as much as you like when you've told me; but don't cry now, child, when you're keeping me on the tenterhooks.
I don't believe I shall ever be capable of 'loving' anybody as long as I live." "Good gracious," was the answer, "don't tantalize me. Why do you keep me on tenterhooks? Say you will marry me, and we'll leave everything else." "I can't say so this morning," she insisted. "I can say that I won't if you like." "For heaven's sake, don't do that!" Colonel Faversham quite humbly entreated.
That meant new trouble trouble for Major Brown commanding the little two-company station the "tuppenny post," his subaltern, Blake, derisively termed it trouble for Blake, who was officer of the day, and was held on tenterhooks for many a day thereafter trouble for Sergeant Collins, who was directly in command of the guard "Collins né Oolahan," as Freeman wrote him down, it having been discovered that this versatile Celt had served a previous enlistment in the "Lost and Strayed," when four of its companies were pioneering shortly after the war, where even the paymaster couldn't find them.
Dan grinned again, his look seeming to say, "Watch me!" Two strikes, with no called balls. Dick, dancing away from third, felt himself on tenterhooks. Not all of his perspiration was due to the heat of the day. Again Dan offered. Crack! A wild, gleeful whoop went up from some of the Central rooters, while others held their breath. The ball went high, and right field came running in for it.
Fernald noticed that the checks of both men were of an identical color, and had the same number of holes punched in them. After carelessly watching a moment or two longer, he returned and without stopping to speak to the boys, went past them and into the next car. Here he engaged a brakeman in conversation, and at last returned to the boys, who were on tenterhooks to learn of his findings.
But of this you may be sure; our various moves are known to them, and they're on the tenterhooks of anxiety wondering what's going to break loose next. More than that, both are sharp enough to have guessed that it would be impossible for either of them to get away from Spruce Beach, now, without our leave. But we'll have to leave you, now, boys.
Sometimes he would affect to be convinced by their arguments and send them away reassured; at others his scruples would return in an aggravated form; and so he would keep them on tenterhooks of suspense for days and weeks, until he was tired of the amusement for this practising on the fears of weaker natures is a horribly keen delight to some or until some desperate little dog, unable to bear his torture any longer, would threaten to give himself up and make an end of it.
Or was he perhaps, in an intense dislike for the job, beating about the bush and only puzzling Captain Anthony, the providential man, who, if he expected the girl to appear at any moment, must have been on tenterhooks all the time, and beside himself with impatience to see the back of his brother-in-law. How was it that he had not got rid of Fyne long before in any case?
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