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Updated: June 20, 2025
He was about sixteen years old, and above six feet high, dressed in a gray suit; the coat, from its size, appeared to have been made for him some ten years before. He was remarkably narrow-chested and round-shouldered, owing, perhaps, as much to the tightness of his garment as to the hand of nature.
"Thank you," I rejoined, dryly, speaking with a tightness at my throat. "He thinks you quite good-looking, Miriam, I assure you; he was agreeably disappointed, even after what he had heard of your appearance from the Stanburys, I suppose and observed that there were fine elements in your character, too, if properly shaped and combined a great deal of 'come out."
But when a fire begins to sink it ceases to be exciting, and as the two lads stood there upon their skates, with their faces burning, the tightness of their straps stopped the circulation, and their feet grew cold. "I say, Dave," said Dick just then, "what's to be done?" "Build 'em up again. I builded this, and I can build another, lad." "Yes, but I mean about you. What's to be done?
Then he rose again, up and up, and ever up, with a terrible tightness about his temples, until at last he shot out of those green shadows and was in the light once more. Two bright, shining, golden spots gleamed before his dazed eyes. He blinked and blinked before he could give a name to them.
Most new girls get impatient at first; but it goes off, and they don't care much for anything after awhile. Poor child! she's asleep already," said Jenny to herself. She could not sleep or rest. The tightness at her side was worse than usual.
Following the general directions Arcot gave him, Morey went through the long series of calculations and arrived at the same results. Slowly he looked up from the brief expression with which he had ended. It was not the formula that astonished him it was its physical significance. "Arcot do you think we can make it?" There was a new expression in Arcot's eyes, a tightness about his mouth.
I ken fine they're no laughin' at the wee joke sae much as at what they're thinkin' o' me and a' they've heard o' my tightness and closeness. Do they think any Scot wad care for the cost of a stamp? Maybe it would anger an Englishman did a postcard come tae him wi'oot a stamp. It wad but amuse a Scot; he'd no be carin' one way or anither for the bawbee the stamp wad cost.
"There, dear lad, don't look like that!" she said. "Go, and come back in a few minutes with the wine we'll be ready for you then. Cheer up! she's opened her pretty eyes once she'll open them again directly and smile at you!" He moved away slowly with an aching heart, and a tightness in his throat that impelled him to cry like a woman.
This made Traugott feel a tightness in his throat, and he was glad when the clever nephew left him, and he found himself alone in his own room. "What a wretched miserable life I lead, to be sure!" he soliloquised.
I do not know how long it may be before just claims are paid up perhaps in two months perhaps in six but until things are settled there will be tightness. "At the same time it will not be difficult, as soon as Lady Harry goes to London, to obtain some kind of advance from the family solicitor on the strength of the insurance due to her from her late husband.
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