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He scrambled awkwardly to his feet, and said to the self-accused murderer in tones of limpid penitence: "I'm awfully sorry, my dear sir, but your tale is really rubbish." "Sir," said Alice Armstrong in a low tone to the priest, "can I speak to you alone for a moment?"
"Miss Sampson," I began, awkwardly yet swiftly, "I I got to thinking it over, and the idea struck me, maybe you felt bad about this gun-fighter Blome coming down here to kill Steele. At first I imagined you felt sick just because there might be blood spilled.
I do not respect the man that curses my mother." Then his face changed horribly, he lifted up his trembling right hand, thereby awkwardly knocking off the canvas cap from his head so that the damp gray hair fluttered. He made Jesus' sign of doom in Michel Angelo's last judgment, screaming loudly meanwhile: "Then I curse you, do you hear! I curse you, Lodovico Muralto. Your father curses you!"
"Ben air too sick to get up," she explained awkwardly, presenting each girl a chair, "I said as how ye couldn't come, Tessibel, but Ben said Myry were to bring ye." From the back room came the sound of belabored breathing and a hoarse voice called for Tessibel. The squatter girl rose to her feet, her color changing from red to white.
The other hesitated a moment, and then said rather awkwardly, "Oh, I'm just home for a little while; I only got here this morning, in fact." Skipworth note the hesitation. Did the old people get panicky at the thought of entertaining a wild man from Virginia, and send an SOS for Gerald, he wondered. "We are so glad you could come to us," Lady Sherwood said rather hastily just then.
There was so much dignity in her sorrow, and so imposing was her attitude, that the baker stood abashed. "Ah! if that's the way," he stammered awkwardly; "and since you meddle with it, mademoiselle " And he retreated precipitately, growling at the same time threats and excuses, and slamming the doors after him hard enough to break the partitions. "What a disgrace!" murmured Mme. Favoral.
The day was solemnly still, exquisitely clear; and between two hills came a glare of gold projected from the Temple of Jerusalem. Through the silence rang the tinkle of the rattles that Mary wore. The prophet was beckoning her. “And Martha?” the tetrarch heard him ask. The pirouette ceased awkwardly. Mary’s eyes forgot their compliments.
You are of age; you can do as you please; and I could work for both because Elizabeth I love you." It was brokenly, awkwardly said, after all; but more completely uttered, perhaps, than if he had told his tale at greater length, for then he would have been stopped before he reached the end. As it was, Elizabeth's look of terror and dismay brought him to a sudden pause.
So I quickly evolved a very casual question. "What! Better than your father and mother?" "Well, you see " and he shifted uneasily "you know perfectly well that my father and mother are dead." "O law!" I said. Awkwardly the conversation dropped. And, as I lay upon my pillow, down went my brain along a line of wandering thoughts.
Mr. Talboys, though not the accomplished sailor he thought himself, knew this as well as anybody, and with the boy's help he lowered the sail at the right moment; but, getting his head awkwardly in the way, the yard, in coming down, hit him on the nose and nearly knocked him on to his beam-ends.
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