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Mrs Verloc was startled. “You’ve been getting wet,” she said. “Not very,” Mr Verloc managed to falter out, in a profound shudder. By a great effort he suppressed the rattling of his teeth. “I’ll have you laid up on my hands,” she said, with genuine uneasiness. “I don’t think so,” remarked Mr Verloc, snuffling huskily.
The noblest thing He ever did was this to walk from the house of Pilate to the crest of Calvary, with the cross upon His back and the railing mob behind Him and before, and never once to falter and complain.
Should I never find the vulnerable spot in that dark soul for which I was always looking? This time his eyes did not falter, and whatever there was of the enigmatical in what I had said, did not lead him to question me farther. On the contrary, he put his finger on his lips. Used as he was to all the sounds of the house, he had heard a step approaching, and knew it was my mother's.
Breathless I watched her, the drab of my daily observation, radiant now; then as I watched she stretched out her arms and bent them together like a shield so that her burning face was hidden from me, and without falter or fury launched herself into the air, and dropt slowly down out of my sight. Exactly so she did it.
Blessed with absolute self-reliance from his boyhood, he had educated and made a success of himself, and he could not understand how any one could falter or repine in the race. Particularly, if Nature had granted them any precious ratio of Peabody blood.
Burke drew nearer to the girl. She seemed to falter, as she walked, and it was apparently with great effort that she neared the door of the big department store. Baxter was watching her stealthily now. "Oh!" she exclaimed desperately and keeled backward. Baxter's calculations were close, for he caught her in his arms. "Quick! Quick!" he cried to the big uniformed carriage attendant at the door.
The thief, when he doth steal, thinks he doth gain; Yet then the greatest loss he doth sustain. Come, thief, tell me thy gains, but do not falter. When summ'd, what comes it to more than the halter? Perhaps, thou'lt say, The halter I defy; So thou may'st say, yet by the halter die. Thou'lt say, Then there's an end; no, pr'ythee, hold, He was no friend of thine that thee so told.
Soon after, LIONEL. TALBOT. Here lay me down beneath the trees, and then Betake you back, with speed, unto the fight; I need no aid to die. Behold what sign awaits you, Lionel! Here lies our general wounded unto death. LIONEL. Now, God forbid! My noble lord, arise! No moment this to falter and to sink. Yield not to death. By your all-powerful will Command your ebbing spirit still to live.
Do not fear Death, but shudder at Relations. Relations keep life from being pleasant. Did not know my Rebecca was possessed of such numbers nor of such kinds, but forgive her all. Shall see her to-morrow." Then, on the line below, in a hand that did not falter, was written: "The End."
He talked lightly to her, and put aside his stern moods whilst with her; but every now and then some childish gesture or tone would stab him with the memory of his little daughter, and his brows would contract and his voice falter at the remembrance. One day he was called away from the studio, and for some time Betty was left alone.
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