Remember that knowing--knowing what you know, or at least what you have heard--you could come here and propose marriage to me!' This she said with a cold, cutting sarcasm which sounded like the rasping of a roughly-sharpened knife through raw flesh.

Harold groaned in spirit; he felt a weakness which began at his heart to steal through him.

It took all his manhood to bear himself erect.

He dreaded what was coming, as of old the once- tortured victim dreaded the coming torment of the rack..