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Then, bursting with joy and with the pride of a capitalist, he went to the book-shop and asked for the coveted volume. He was tense with long-pent feeling. He expected to have the bookseller say that the price had gone up to one thousand dollars, and that all were sold. But he did not. He turned silently, drew the book out of a pile of them, hesitated and said, "Green or red cover?"
That type of face, that air, these were the priceless things he would buy with his money. Crazed with the very violence of his long-pent desire, he seized her hand. She wrung it free again. "How how dare you!" she cried. He staggered back, and stood for a moment motionless, as though stunned. Then, slowly, a light crept into his little eyes which haunted her for many a day.
He's one of the get-rich-quick sort. P'raps you 'll learn from him how to dodge Board of Trade inquiries. You stand on what I told you, Miss Maxwell. You remember? Commodore! Huh!" Something must be done to stem the long-pent flood of Mr. Boyle's gossip. Elsie turned on him desperately. "How do you expect me to listen to you, and work at the same time?" she said.
"I think that is a fair description. When she cares, that is. When she is in good form." "Which she isn't at present," hazarded the doctor. He exploded a mine of long-pent exasperation. "She is the clumsiest hand at keeping well that I have ever known. Health is a woman's primary duty. But she is incapable of the most elementary precautions. She is maddeningly receptive to every infection.
At the touch the feel of this strong man lying helpless in her arms the long-pent yearning of her soul burst the studied bonds of its restraint and through her whole body swept the torrent of a mighty love. Resistlessly it engulfed every nerve and fiber of her wave upon wave of wild, primitive passion surged through her veins until her heart seemed bursting with the sweet, intense pain of it.
Wolfe's parents presently moved to Greenwich, where he was sent to school at Swinden's. Here he worked quietly enough till just before he entered on his 'teens. Then the long-pent rage of England suddenly burst in war with Spain. The people went wild when the British fleet took Porto Bello, a Spanish port in Central America. The news was cried through the streets all night.
It was not that the owners of these lordly piles indulged in the unfeeling triumph, but their dependants, constantly subject themselves to the degrading influence of a superior presence, let loose the long-pent torrents of their arrogance on the head of the first unresisting subject which offered.
All the long-pent love of the simple creature burst forth: with tears and passionate exclamations she kissed her mistress's garments, and for a while the latter strove to escape from her; then, seeing she could not, she waited till the violence of the paroxysm was over. "What have you done, Amrah?" she said. "Is it by such disobedience you prove your love for us? Wicked woman!
At last launch forth against mine enemy The long-pent anger of my inmost soul! Who was it, who, That shut me up within this living tomb, In all the strength and freshness of my youth, With all its feelings glowing in my breast? Who from my bosom rent my darling son, And chartered ruffian hands to take his life?
A moment later and the sound of footsteps was heard upon the piazza; a sound which in earlier years she had heard with thrills of pleasure. But to-night they only loosed the tension of long-pent passion, and selfish thoughts of neglect. She sank into a chair, and sat with the air of one deeply wronged, as her husband entered the room.
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