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The man paused for a few moments, and then replied "Night and day, I pray to God, upon my bended knees, only one unvarying, unceasing prayer, and that is 'When the last agonies shall be upon that man when, sick with weariness, pain, disease, hunger, he lies down to die when the death-gurgle is in the throat, and the eye swims beneath the last dull film when remembrance peoples the chamber with Hell, and his cowardice would falter forth its dastard recantation to Heaven then may I be there?"
There could be no doubt now but that Danny Lund was right, and no doubt now as to the whereabouts of Aaron Trow. A hand was put forth, a pistol was fired, and Caleb Morton still clinging to a corner of the rock with both his arms was seen to falter. "He is wounded," said one of the voices from below; and then they all expected to see him fall into the sea.
But Eva needed her love and care so much just now, and when the sufferer gave her older daughter also a tender glance and vainly strove to falter a few words of thanks, Els herself replaced in Eva's the hand which her mother had withdrawn. Fran Maria nodded gently to Els, as if asking her sensible elder daughter to watch over her forsaken sister in her place.
He admitted with bitterness his insane passion that sunny afternoon; remembered and acknowledged a wild impulse to overturn the boat, and let come what might. He paced the floor and cried out that nothing that they said of him could be too bad. And yet he hoped. He had come to the Dabney House with hope. He had given his Texas address with a falter of hope. But of course there was no hope.
And he would listen now in silence, his face grim and sardonic; and when from very weariness the flow of her inspired oratory began to falter, he would deliver ever the same answer. "It is you who have driven me to this; and this is no more than a beginning. You have made a vow an outrageous votive offering of something that is not yours to bestow. That vow you cannot break, you say. Be it so.
The Christian can go through any dark place and endure any hardness if he keeps a firm trust in God and, his purpose strong and true, but he will falter in the smallest trials if he is not firm. The young Christian need not hope to be always surrounded by those who are in sympathy with his religious life, but each must learn to serve God in spite of circumstances and surroundings.
At length he saw the girl falter slightly, then make a swift deceptive movement to avoid the boy who pursued her. The movement did not delude the boy. He had quickness of anticipation. An instant later the girl was in his arms. As Denzil gazed, it seemed she was in his arms too long, and a sudden anxiety took hold of him. That anxiety was deepened when he saw the boy kiss the girl on the cheek.
Again and again Frank's fist cracked on his face, and still he did not falter, but continued to stand up and "take his medicine." In less than a minute the Virginian was bleeding at the nose, and had received a blow in one of his eyes that was causing it to swell in a way that threatened to close it entirely.
What are bullet-wounds and brevets to this one supreme, sublime encounter? His heart was high, his voice rang clear and exultant, his eyes flashed joy and fire and defiance in the face of a thousand deaths two weeks ago. But here in the presence of a slender girl he can do naught but falter and stammer and tremble.
He knew that the struggle was yet to come; that, when she was alone, her faith in the far-off Christ would falter; that she would grasp at this work, to fill her empty hands and starved heart, if for no other reason, to stifle by a sense of duty her unutterable feeling of loss. He was keenly read in woman's heart, this Knowles.
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