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Lad, lad," said the old lady, turning upon Brown her piercing blue-grey eyes, "in the old Mullin Church I have seen the very rafters throbbing, and strong men and women swaying like the tree-tops in the glen while Burns was raging forth upon them like the Tummel in spate, while visions of the eternal things the throne of God and the Judgment Day filled our eyes."
A thick throbbing at my heart, and fancies thronging on me. A disposition to sleep, or to think on things melancholy and horrible while I wake. Strange that one's nerves should thus master them, for nervous the case is, as I know too well. I am beginning to tire of my Journal, and no wonder, faith, if I have only such trash as this to record.
She did so with trembling limbs and throbbing heart. The hangings fell, and she was in the dread presence of the emperor. He stood near a window with his back toward her a tall, graceful man, in a white uniform. The poor girl felt as if she would cease to breathe, for this was the decisive moment of her young life.
The mystic magic power of that rich resonant voice, its rhythmic cadence emphasized by the soft throbbing of the drum, the uplifted face glowing as with prophetic fire, the tall swaying form instinct with exalted emotion, swept the souls of his hearers with surging tides of passion.
The great figure of the Gospels lived, moved before our eyes. We saw Him bend to touch the blind, we heard Him speak His marvellous teaching, we felt the throbbing excitement of the crowds that pressed against Him. Suddenly The Pilot stopped, turned over the leaves and began again: "And He led them out as far as to Bethany. And He lifted up His hands and blessed them.
She finished it as best she might, addressed it after the herald's spelling of the title, bound it with some of the Duchess's black floss silk wondering meanwhile, but little guessing that the pedlar knew, where was the tress that had bound her last attempt at correspondence, guessing least of all that that tress lay on a heart still living and throbbing for her.
He had given her the last of the new blankets and his own old bed was missing now. Wid had fulfilled his threat and burned it. She stood alone, her throat throbbing, hesitant, at the side of the rude bunk. "He's a kind man," said she to herself, half aloud, after a time. "Oh, if only I could see!" She began to feel her way about, stood at the door for a time, looking out.
He murmured again, tossing uneasily; and she fell backwards in the straw, gazing at him, with her arms locked over her breast and her heart throbbing madly. "No he is asleep!" she said, "He is fast asleep! Another hour, and then in the dusk I will wake him. He will play for the dancing Velasco! The greatest violinist in all Russia he will play for the peasants to dance!"
His head was quite clear now, and only the throbbing hurt on the back of his head reminded him of Reginald's cowardly blow. But his anger against his brothers had faded into apathy in the presence of this new trouble which seemed to choke the very fountains of his being. One terrible fact smote him with crushing force Evelyn had left him and gone with Rance Belmont.
But the throbbing of his heart continued: the veins in his temples still stood out, like purple whip-cords.
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