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Lieutenant commander Hernan had been severely wounded in the leg by a native javelin, but the injury was a long way from being fatal. Hernan gritted his teeth while his leg was being bandaged. "The angels were with us on that one," he said between winces. The commander nodded. "I hope they stick with us. We'll need 'em to get off this island."
I winced again, for I seemed to be getting the winces now, and couldn't stop. "That isn't fair, Miss Graham! Circumstances are against me, but you might suspend judgment till you know me better!" "The circumstances require no further evidence," she said, with supreme indifference.
I have said to the Dakotan and to the others here: "It was good for you to come but the time may arrive, when it will be just as good for you to go.... When you see me covering old fields; when you come here for continual reviews of my little story; when your mind winces with the thought of what I am to do and say next, because you know it well already arise and come no more, but in passing, say to me, 'To-day we did not get out of the circle of yesterday.... I shall know what is meant, and it shall be good for you to tell me, since one forgets.
In the lives of each one of us, as we look back and review them in retrospect, there are certain desert wastes from which memory winces like some tired traveller faced with a dreary stretch of road. Even from the security of later happiness we cannot contemplate them without a shudder. Time robs our sorrows of their sharp vividness, but the horror of those blank, gray days never wholly passes.
The palace was gone, Strether remembered the palace; and when he gazed into the irremediable void of its site the historic sense in him might have been freely at play the play under which in Paris indeed it so often winces like a touched nerve.
They sailed on the GOLDEN GATE." "Perfectly," says the iron captain, removing his cigar. "I watched these steamers for the government. He was a Big Six in the K.G.C., you remember, Colonel Joe?" Joe winces; that Golden Circle dinner comes back, when he, too, cheered the Stars and Bars. "I see you do remember," says Lee, throwing away his cigar. "Now be frank, old man. Tell me your whole game."
His dress corresponds, whereas the white usurper of his territory servile to the malignant impositions of custom and fashion suffers from general superfluity and winces under his sufferings. Would he not be wiser owning subservience to the sun, and adopting dress suitable to actual needs and the dominant characteristics of the land of the sun?
He is a little taller than I, younger looking and sounder looking; he has missed an illness or so, and there is no scar over his eye. His training has been subtly finer than mine; he has made himself a better face than mine.... These things I might have counted upon. I can fancy he winces with a twinge of sympathetic understanding at my manifest inferiority.
Madame de Sablé betrays in her reply that she winces under this raillery, and thus provokes a rather severe though polite rejoinder, which, added to the fact that Madame de Longueville is convalescent, rouses her courage to the pitch of paying the formidable visit.
"If you are bent on taking this brute round yourself, of course, I shall go with you," he says, indifferently. "Hold her head, George, for a moment." Even as he speaks the mare moves uneasily, and, as the groom approaches, throws up her head impatiently, and in so doing touches Fabian's right arm somewhat roughly. In spite of his self-control he winces perceptibly.
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