1 As he strode along through the snow the sense of such meanings glowed in his brain and mingled with the bodily flush produced by his sharp tramp.
2 But now, as he stood outside the church, and saw Mattie spinning down the floor with Denis Eady, a throng of disregarded hints and menaces wove their cloud about his brain.
3 Ethan felt confusedly that there were many things he ought to think about, but through his tingling veins and tired brain only one sensation throbbed: the warmth of Mattie's shoulder against his.
4 The blackness lifted and light flooded Ethan's brain.
5 His body and brain ached with indescribable weariness, and he could think of nothing to say or to do that should arrest the mad flight of the moments.
6 Then, suddenly, an idea, shining and new, flashed like a comet through her brain.
7 Through the mad tearing of ideas round and round in her brain, one was beginning to take form.
8 Somewhere in her brain, a slow fire rose and rage began to blot out everything else.
9 "He has a lot of money," she was thinking swiftly, as a thought and a plan went through her brain.
10 She was proud of Gerald and what he had accomplished unaided except by his shrewd Irish brain.
11 She stopped and racked her brain.
12 All the fiends of hell seemed screaming in her ears and her brain swirled with confusion and panic so overpowering she clung to the window sill for support.
13 Those were the words which had hummed in her brain that afternoon so monotonously they had sickened her.
14 She only knew she had left her tired body and floated somewhere above it where there was no pain and weariness and her brain saw things with an inhuman clarity.
15 Tomorrow--tomorrow--her brain ticked slowly and more slowly, like a clock running down, but the clarity of vision persisted.