Possessed myself of a strong stomach and a hard head, inured to hardship, cruelty, and brutality, nevertheless I found, as I came to manhood, that I unconsciously protected myself from the hurt of the trained-animal
turn by getting up and leaving the theatre whenever such
turns came on the stage.
But on Monday morning, when she came to his office to get her pay for the two
turns, it was he who puzzled her.
Upon that the Grandmother
turned sharply to the General.
If you
turn the grasshopper, mademoiselle, we shall all be blown up.
Miss Polly
turned and walked down the hall toward the attic stairway door.
"Wants to
turn on the other side," whispered the servant, and got up to
turn the count's heavy body toward the wall.
Then he
turned and looked behind him--looked all round his dwelling, seeming to strain his brown eyes after some possible appearance of the bags where he had already sought them in vain.
Frank confusedly raised his hat, and
turned back in the direction of his father's cottage.
As the welcome light diffused itself over the room, she
turned from the table and looked towards the other side of the bed.
Who
turned the key of that chamber to allow the murderer to enter?--The nurses, --two faithful domestics?
At the "Criterion" he
turned in and had a drink, and, bolder for the wine which he had swallowed at a gulp, he told himself that he would do nothing of the sort.
There was an agonized scream from the victim, and his fellows
turned to see his struggling body rise as by magic slowly into the dense foliage of the trees above.