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There was something inside, something around her heart, which was robbing her of her rest, haunting her through the long, lonely nights, torturing her through these miserable days. Soon she would have to turn and face it. She shivered with fear at the thought. In the street a man accosted her. She looked up with an almost guilty start. A little cry broke from her lips.
She thought of the torturing night, during which she had vainly waited here for Hermon, and a triumphant smile hovered around her lips; but soon the heavy eyebrows of the girl who was thus leaving her home contracted in a frown she again fancied she saw, where the moon was just fading, the body of a gigantic, hideous spider.
Gradually her maternal heart attributed to her John alone the desire of the world-weary earthly pilgrim to lay aside the purple and return to Spain. Though Barbara at this time rarely left her own fireside, her husband might often have wished that she would return to the conduct of the previous winter, for he perceived the torturing anxiety which was consuming her.
Death amid the smoke, and excitement, and glory of battle, was not half so terrible as in the awful calmness and chill horror of the scaffold! And sadder yet, to think of my friends, who would count the weary months that had gone by, and wish and long for my return, till hope became torturing suspense, and suspense deepened into despair.
If it had brought joy, and glory, and triumph, if it had been greeted at its entrance and applauded on the way, He would have been as truly the consecrated soul that He was in the days when, over a road that was marked with the blood of His footprints, He found His way up at last to the torturing cross. It is not suffering; it is obedience. It is not pain; it is consecration of life.
But no sooner was she alone than her torturing perplexities and her abasement of the hours previous to Victor's coming returned. For a girl of Nesta's head could not be deceived; she had come home with a woman's intelligence of the world, hard knowledge of it a knowledge drawn from foul wells, the unhappy mother imagined: she dreaded to probe to the depth of it.
But there are two things I haven't done. I want you to remember distinctly that I have not dragged that girl into this nor had any hand in torturing a wounded old man." "You mean Lyn Rowan? Is she safe?" Mac squatted beside him, leaning eagerly forward to catch the reply. Piegan returned with the water as Goodell was about to answer. He swallowed thirstily, took breath, and went on.
The Executioner of the Inquisition, says Goblin, edging in her head to look down also, flung those who were past all further torturing, down here. 'But look! does Monsieur see the black stains on the wall? A glance, over his shoulder, at Goblin's keen eye, shows Monsieur and would without the aid of the directing key where they are. 'What are they? 'Blood!
Somehow I felt afraid a sort of horror had come upon me my imagination had been over-excited by the evil dream which I had experienced, and a feeling of oppression was crushing my heart.... I leapt from the chair, and involuntarily uttered a cry a cry wrung from me by the terrible, torturing sensation that was upon me. Presently the door opened, and Pokrovski entered.
They knew how likely was the collapse of such portions of the mine; but also they knew that men had been working here before the explosion. "I must say they're a game lot!" remarked Dicky. A group of women and children were gathered about to listen, their shyness overcome by their torturing anxiety for news.
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