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The strain grew unbearable; his fingers twisted tight in his rosary, lifted themselves once or twice from the floor edge on which they were gripped, to tear back the bolts and declare himself. It seemed to him in those instants a thousand times better to come out of his own will, rather than to be poked and dragged from his hole like a badger.
But all this pleasure tending, like life from its first instants, towards its own dissolution, lived too fast not to bring on upon the spur its delicious moment of mortality; for presently the approach of the tender agony discovered itself by its usual signals, that were quickly followed by my dear lover's emanation of himself, that spun out, and shot, feelingly indeed! up the ravished indraught: where the sweetly soothing balmy titillation opened all the juices of joy on my side, which extatic-ally in flow helped to allay the prurient glow, and drowned our pleasure for a while.
Apparently they were satisfied that no one was on the farther shore, and that they were in no danger of a bullet, as presently they emerged fully into the open, and stood there, their eyes questing. Then they looked at the bridge, and, for a few instants, Robert was sure they would attempt the crossing upon it.
Such instants cannot last, and they are shortest when one's habits of thought are antagonistic to such luxury. Brigit sighed deeply, and roused herself with a painful sense that the minute she wilfully cut short had been the sweetest in her life. "Pensée," she said, "has been so kind to me. She gave me her room at Wight House last night. She had the little dressing-room just off it.
The old man remained silent, involved in thought, for some instants; after which, he said, "My son, many sultans and princes have wished to attain this bird and the princess, but failed in the attempt; however, do thou procure seven lambs, kill them, flay and cut them up into halves.
She had exhausted them while they were in transit; she had no minor curiosity. 'Let us fancy she is looking for her lover, he said. Renee added: 'Let us hope she will not escape being seen. 'I give her my benediction, said Nevil. 'And I, said Renee; 'and adieu to her, if you please. Look for Roland. 'You remind me; I have but a few instants.
Those were the horses that would go back to Dethick and Derby, and, may be, half over England. He walked to and fro half a dozen times without speaking, and, if he had but guessed it, he might have been comforted to know that his manhood flowed in upon him, as a tide coming in over a flat beach. These instants added more years to him than as many months that had gone before.
The gardener maintained that, a few instants after the shriek was heard in my mother's room, he had seen a man, unknown to him, running through the bushes in the garden to the gate into the street. The gardener could not overtake him; besides, he had been immediately called into the house and sent for the doctor.
A singular spectacle presented itself to his view; he remained some instants contemplating it, attentive to the conversation which was going on. "Listen, listen, La Valeur!" said one soldier to another. "See, she begins again to speak and to sing!" "Put her in the middle of the circle, between us and the fire." "You do not know her! You do not know her!" said another.
For some instants he saw only the horse; and his eyes kindled. Then he faced the cowboys and Huntington. They were fixed in almost the very attitudes in which he had come upon them. Huntington's outstretched hands had indeed fallen to his side, but they still clutched the crumpled bills. Raley's blood-stained face was purple with anger and chagrin, while Smith's wore a sullen, hangdog look.
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