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"Let them alone," broke in the old man, who had a penny a day more for acting as a sort of gaffer. "Get on wi' yer own work, an' never mind them." "Gang you to hell, auld wheezie bellows," replied one woman coarsely, adding a rough jest at his breathlessness, whilst the others laughed loudly, adding, each one, another sally to torment the old man.
The girl kept her eyes lowered, while she said firmly, though with traces of breathlessness and tremulo in her voice, "Please help me down." Peter was out of his saddle in a moment, and lifted the girl down. She staggered slightly on reaching the ground, so that Peter said: "You had better lean on me." "No," said the girl, still looking down, "I will lean against the horse."
"Surrender," said the captain as calmly as a slight breathlessness from exertion would permit, "or you die." There was no menace in the manner of this demand; that was all in the matter and in the means of enforcing it. There was, too, something not altogether reassuring in the cold gray eyes that glanced along the barrel of the weapon.
We have not happy days before us; the revolt in Judaea, too, will again cost thousands of lives." "If only it had been granted to you to assume the government of that province." "But you know, my worthy friend, the condition I am in. On my bad days I am incapable of commanding a thought or opening my lips. When my breathlessness increases I feel as if I were being suffocated.
"Why did you slip away by stealth like this?" said d'Urberville, with upbraiding breathlessness; "on a Sunday morning, too, when people were all in bed! I only discovered it by accident, and I have been driving like the deuce to overtake you. Just look at the mare. Why go off like this? You know that nobody wished to hinder your going.
At last Heidi caught sight of the grandmother's house in the hollow of the mountain and her heart began to beat; she ran faster and faster and her heart beat louder and louder and now she had reached the house, but she trembled so she could hardly open the door and then she was standing inside, unable in her breathlessness to utter a sound.
I can do more for him than any one else can I can make him happy and good. I know I can. God give him to me and I will be your slave. God, give me Martin God, give me Martin." She rose, as it were, from the depths of the sea, from great darkness and breathlessness and exhaustion.
"You remember we passed the 'Porcupine' in the Indian Ocean?" "Yes, I know that very well," she said, with a shade of meaning. "But" here I thought her voice had a touch of breathlessness "but who is the officer? I mean, what is his name?" "He stands in the group near the door of the captain's cabin, there. His name is Galt Roscoe, I think." A slight exclamation escaped her.
"Well," he returned, with a smile that she knew he was forcing, "I have seen the girl that wrote that letter." "Not Jerusha Brown?" "Not Jerusha Brown, but the girl all the same." "Now go on, Philip, and don't miss a single word!" she commanded him, with an imperious breathlessness. "You know I won't hurry you or interrupt you, but you must you really must-tell me everything.
"But there is a question of fitness. Has this occurred to you?" There was a breathlessness in his utterance which contrasted with the monstrous hint of mockery in his intention. "Why!" whispered Natalia Haldin with feeling. "Who more fit than you?" He had a convulsive movement of exasperation, but controlled himself. "Indeed! Directly you heard that I was in Geneva, before even seeing me?
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