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Poor little skinny, homely, orphan kid, thrown out to buck the world for herself, and stopping in her first flight from injustice to help a stranger, only to have him think her a possible criminal! He was glad that his back twinged and his head throbbed; he ought to be kicked out into the ditch and left to die there for harboring such thoughts. He was a cur, and she hang it!
He knew this, and deep down in his heart awoke a numbed chord of humanity that twinged with strange pain. What awful work he must sanction to keep his vaunted power! More bitter than all was the knowledge that to retain this hold over the indians he must commit a deed which, so far as the whites were concerned, would take away his great name, and brand him a coward.
In a bewildered, palsied way he put down the dish he carried, and, heaving a sad sigh, drew himself up until the rheumatic spine must have twinged, and, fixing his eyes on some point far above our head, stood in motionless dignity. Even Mr Clare had laughed, but, recovering equanimity immediately that he saw how deeply Clump was wounded, he said: "Boys, stop that laughing."
There is a gratification in being honoured by those around you, though your conscience may be twinged that you yourself have done nothing to deserve it. It will be so with him if he takes his position here as an Italian nobleman." "But he would still have to be a clerk in the Post Office." "Probably not." "But how would he live?" asked Lady Frances.
Tied in yards! Stuffed down cellar!" "Me-o-w," twinged a plaintive hint from the hallway just outside. "Oh, but cats are different," argued Flame. "So soft, so plushy, so spineless! Cats were meant to be stuffed into things."
He even gave the big boy's lisp once more, and followed on with a series of pantomimic exhibitions. All at once, he cast his eyes on his Mother's face that face so full of intelligence and the mild sorrow of years of widowhood, borne with resigned patience. Her eyes were full of tears, and there was not a smile on her countenance. Joachim's conscience he knew not why twinged him terribly.
Maitland's face twinged with annoyance; "if she hankers after him, I'll make it up to her in some way. I'll give her a good big check!" But she must make sure about the "hankering." It would not be difficult to make sure. In these silent years together, the strong nature had drawn the weak nature to it, as a magnet draws a speck of iron.
The white face into which the man gazed grew whiter still, the eyes dilated, and her heart twinged with a pang of jealousy more bitter than death to endure. People always made that remark when speaking of Dorothy. It was that fatal gift which had won her lover from her, Nadine said to herself, and which had wrecked her life. Oh! if she could but destroy that pink-and-white beauty!
From Paris, after this particular meeting with Bakkus, Andrew once more goes on tour with Prepimpin. But a Prepimpin grown old, and, though pathetically eager, already past effective work. Nine years of strenuous toil are as much as any dog can stand. Rheumatism twinged the hind legs of Prepimpin. Desire for slumber stupefied his sense of duty.
For as he stood, pale and silent, the shaft of a terrible pain, of broken bone and lacerated muscle twinged and twitched his arm, and to smother it and keep from crying out he gripped bloodlessly nervously the stock of his pistol saying over and over: "I am a Conway again a man again!" And so standing he defied them and they halted, like sheep at the door of the shambles.
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