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THEN, while the jury were consulting they would not leave the box, it seemed so clear Roger broke the death-like silence; and he said: "Judge, I crave your worship's leave to speak: and hearken to me, countrymen.
"But my strange visitor?" "You had no visitor, dear Sybil; you had a dream, and your dream had every feature of nightmare in it the deep, death-like, yet half-conscious and much disturbed sleep; the sense of heavy oppression; the apparition hanging over you; the inability to awake; even the grappling at your throat, and the swift disappearance of the vision immediately upon your full awakening all well-known features of incubus," replied Mr.
Oswald it seems to me that that an engagement must be a heavy burden to one who has to make his own way in life I I should be sorry to be a disadvantage to you." It was a crushing blow, and for an instant he sat stunned into almost death-like stillness by it: but he rallied; he would leave no loop on which hope or fancy might hereafter hang a doubt.
Armitage, clasping Queen Alice to his heart, was half rising from the blessed mantlet of the snow, and she, her head upon his broad shoulder, was smiling faintly up into his face: then the glorious eyes closed in a death-like swoon. Fort Sibley had its share of sensations that eventful year. Its crowning triumph in the one that followed was the wedding in the early spring.
"You come out at last," he said. "Well, I have been waiting for you long, and listening: yet not one movement have I heard, nor one sob: five minutes more of that death-like hush, and I should have forced the lock like a burglar. So you shun me? you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate. I expected a scene of some kind.
Fortunately, too, none but he saw her blanched face; and, as she stood in the shadow, he alone was watching the strained and eager eyes, the parted and rigid lips, the death-like pallor of her countenance. Standing there with her heart beating, and almost believing herself in a horrid dream, she listened, heard, and comprehended every word.
Keep the money, principal and interest, until I demand it of thee." "But," continued the pertinacious Borderer, "we are a' life-like and death-like, Elshie, and there really should be some black and white on this transaction. Sae just make me a minute, or missive, in ony form ye like, and I'se write it fair ower, and subscribe it before famous witnesses.
Springing towards him, the mother snatched her child from the flood and gazed at its death-like face with eyeballs starting from their sockets; then she laid her cheek on its cold breast and stood like a statue of despair. There was one slight pulsation of the heart and a gentle motion of the hand! The child still lived.
The death-like stillness of the plain, the dogs keeping watch, the gipsy-group of Gauchos making their beds round the fire, have left in my mind a strongly-marked picture of this first night, which will never be forgotten. The next day the country continued similar to that above described. It is inhabited by few birds or animals of any kind. This animal here represents our hares.
Heartsick and trembling, I glanced aside at my companions. The père lay clasping the stone, his eyes wide with horror, his countenance death-like; Cairnes was upon his knees, his great hands gripped, staring straight down like some animal crouching for a spring.
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