1 Frome's heart was beating fast.
2 His heart reeled with the sweetness of it.
3 The words were like fragments torn from his heart.
4 Ethan stood looking at her, his heart in his throat.
5 It was a shy secret spot, full of the same dumb melancholy that Ethan felt in his heart.
6 But sometimes the two of them get going at each other, and then Ethan's face'd break your heart.
7 Ethan's heart was jerking to and fro between two extremities of feeling, but for the moment compassion prevailed.
8 When supper was over she rose from her seat and pressed her hand to the flat surface over the region of her heart.
9 She was so small and weak-looking that it wrung his heart; but suddenly she lifted her head and looked straight at him.
10 It seemed to Ethan that his heart was bound with cords which an unseen hand was tightening with every tick of the clock.
11 The cutter was going in the direction of the Frome farm, and Ethan's heart contracted as he listened to the dwindling bells.
12 Mrs. Hale answered simply: "There was nowhere else for her to go;" and my heart tightened at the thought of the hard compulsions of the poor.
13 The other he tried to slip through hers; but she eluded him nimbly, and Frome's heart, which had swung out over a black void, trembled back to safety.
14 The sudden heat of his tone made her colour mount again, not with a rush, but gradually, delicately, like the reflection of a thought stealing slowly across her heart.
15 Once, in the stillness, the call of a bird in a mountain ash was so like her laughter that his heart tightened and then grew large; and all these things made him see that something must be done at once.
16 It pleased Ethan to have surprised a pair of lovers on the spot where he and Mattie had stood with such a thirst for each other in their hearts; but he felt a pang at the thought that these two need not hide their happiness.
17 He was a poor man, the husband of a sickly woman, whom his desertion would leave alone and destitute; and even if he had had the heart to desert her he could have done so only by deceiving two kindly people who had pitied him.
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