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He seemed to question the dumb wood with faltering sagacity and in his gestures there was something marvelous as well as infantile.

The horror of her gloomy apprehensions sent a chill to her heart that caused it for an instant to stand still, or so it seemed to her. "I mustn't think of such frightful things," she breathed. "Tom is all right. I must make myself believe it. Now is the time to be brave; to go on steadily without faltering. Tom will come back to me.

Sofia could hardly be grateful enough to the happy chance which had cast that lady for the rôle of her chaperone; lacking her guidance the girl must have been innocently guilty of many a gaucherie in ways new and strange to untried, faltering feet. And it was to her alone that Sofia owed the slow but constant widening of her social horizon.

Answer boldly without fear or scruple." To this interrogation the misanthrope replied, with a faltering accent, "If not a vagrant, you incur the penalty for riding armed in affray of the peace." "But, instead of riding armed in affray of the peace," resumed the other, "I ride in preservation of the peace; and gentlemen are allowed by the law to wear armour for their defence.

The absolute necessity for keeping cool, for loading and reloading, for aiming and firing, for beating them off at close quarters all this so occupied one's mind, and still more one's hands, that one couldn't find room for any personal terrors. "They are breaking over there!" "They will overpower us yonder!" "They are faltering now!"

"These people are but little children, after all, seeing not, groping blindly, attempting weakly, blundering always, yet never faltering in love for Thee.

'Why, father's ship's come in, said her good-natured friend from the docks, coming forward and wiping his lips, as if he had just finished a good meal. 'What makes you be doing only middling? 'Father didn't come home in the ship, replied Meg, her voice faltering a little. 'Come in and tell us all about it, he said. 'Hollo, Mrs Blossom! just step this way, if you please.

After a moment's pause, Father Mathias followed him, and seized him by the arm, saying, in a faltering voice, "Let her not suffer long." The Grand Inquisitor gave the signal, and the fires were all lighted at the same moment. In compliance with the request of the priest, the executioner had thrown a quantity of wet straw upon Amine's pile, which threw up a dense smoke before it burnt into flames.

And then all my young companions were doing me honor in their way, when " Ishmael's voice was choked for a moment; but with an effort he regained his composure and continued, though in a broken and faltering voice: "Alfred Burghe left the group, saying that I was not a proper companion for young ladies and gentlemen. And when she Miss Merlin, angrily demanded why I was not, he Oh! Aunt Hannah!"

So it continued till the very moment of parting, and again as on their first meeting he stood silent and troubled before her; then in faltering words told her that the thought of her would travel and be with him; that in a little while, perhaps in a month or two, he would be rid of a great matter which had been weighing heavily on his mind, and once free he could return to Devon, if she would consent to his paying her another visit.