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But how often have I seen him leave his home, where the sick and the hungry felt, when he left them, that they had lost their only earthly friend, to ride on a duty which could not be neglected for domes tic evils! Oh! how hard it must be to preach consolation to others when your own heart is bursting with anguish!
Her cheeks were still burning when she pushed the heavy door which protected the mysterious region from the banality she had left. But there she was again carried from mood to mood. She found everyone enthusiastic. Crayford's tic was almost triumphant. His little beard bristled with an aggressive optimism. "Where's Claude?" said Charmian, not seeing him and thinking of Mrs. Shiffney.
I take this opportunity of stating that I think the charge unjust. But, to conclude my description of myself; I am romantic. One of my dearest companions used to say that my nose was the same, minus the tic! What he meant by that I never could make out. I doubt if he himself knew. My chief delight in my leisure hours was to retire to my bedroom and immerse myself in books of travel and adventure.
The object of tic is some imaginary end, the influence of the will always being present in the beginning, although later it may be absent. Insufficiency of inhibition is the cause of the beginning and of the persistence of bad habits and of tics.
Nor were they the only flies, for hundreds of other creatures, no bigger than a pin's head, had fastened on to me like bulldogs to a baited bear, boring their heads into the flesh, where in the end they cause festers. They are named garrapatas by the Spanish, and I take them to be the young of the tic.
They looked innocently into human faces and pretended that they did not see the irritation there. "Tsic a dee. I wish I could help. Perhaps I can. Tic a dee-e-e?" with that gentle, sweetly insinuating up slide at the end. Somebody spoke, for the first time in half an hour, and it wasn't a growl. Presently somebody whistled a wee little whistle; but the tide had turned. Then somebody laughed.
There was a tic at the side of Joe's mouth which usually manifested itself only in combat. He said stiffly, "I am afraid we should have gone to a Middle establishment." "Nonsense. What difference does it make? Besides, don't change the subject. I am not to be fooled, Joe Mauser. Something is afoot. Now, just what?" The tic had intensified.
So does everybody that considers himself as having a right to fall back on what he calls his idiosyncrasy. Yet a man has such a right, and it is no easy thing to adjust the private claim to the fair public demand on him. Suppose you are subject to tic douloureux, for instance.
Of course, no one is to blame for that; but I in my foolishness dislike my popularity. I feel as though it had cheated me. At ten o'clock I fall asleep, and in spite of the tic I sleep soundly, and should have gone on sleeping if I had not been awakened. Soon after one came a sudden knock at the door. "Who is there?" "A telegram."
The puppet returned to the town and began to count the minutes one by one, and when he thought that it must be time he took the road leading to the Field of Miracles. And as he walked along with hurried steps his heart beat fast tic, tac, tic, tac like a drawing-room clock when it is really going well.
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