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She had never received kindness from her aunt Norris, and could not love her. "I shall be very sorry to go away," said she, with a faltering voice. "Yes, I dare say you will; that's natural enough. I suppose you have had as little to vex you since you came into this house as any creature in the world." "I hope I am not ungrateful, aunt," said Fanny modestly. "No, my dear; I hope not.
And outside the gates of Pekin ten men who were killed in their attempts to blow it up might apparently have been indefinitely multiplied at the command of their officers without any danger of faltering.
Nearly twenty-six and I'm still playing games like a schoolboy!... What's my father saying? 'We count it death to falter not to die' ... I've been faltering and before I know anything about it I shall be thirty half-time.... This can't go on. This waiting for Joan is faltering. If she's not coming to me I must go to her. If it's not coming right it must end and I must get mended and begin again.
'I saw you walking with him, Ursula; he looked up, but I am glad he could not see me. Did did he send me any message? in a faltering voice. 'Yes, he sent you this. And I placed the thick packet on her lap. 'Miss Hamilton, yes, it was her own name: he had written it.
'If you do not fear the consequences of such rash speaking for yourself, know that I hold in my hand the power of life and death over thy betrothed lover. 'My worst forebodings are then realized, exclaimed Mary in a faltering tone, 'and I must condescend to sue for mercy at your feet. Mercy, not for myself, but for him who is far dearer to me than life.
She took his hand, and drawing it towards Agatha's which hung on her arm, said earnestly: "Wait no longer life's changes will not wait Marry her now nothing should come between lovers that love one another." Anne's manner, so faltering, so different from her usual self, irresistibly impressed the hearers.
"Nineteen years, monseigneur," eagerly interposed the Countess de Rupelmonde. "You will reply to me by-and-by, madame," said the archbishop, dryly. He then repeated his question to the novice, who replied in a faltering voice, "Seventeen years." "In what diocese did you take the white veil?" "In the diocese of Toul." "How!" exclaimed the archbishop, vehemently. "In the diocese of Toul?
The language of the Jewish soul they could not speak, and they could not formulate a new ideal to take the place of the tottering traditions of the past and the faltering hope of a Messianic time. An entire generation was to pass before historical Judaism came into its own again, through the creation of a pure "Science of Judaism" and the conception of the mission of the Jewish people.
There was yet more, scribbled in the same faltering, agitated handwriting, and from the context the entries had been made in the waiting-room of the railroad station. "I must attract her attention. She will not look my way.
Diana's voice was faltering and amazed. Fanny twisted her hat in her hands. "He's all right," she said, angrily, "if his business hadn't been ruined by a lot of nasty crawling tale-tellers. If people'd only mind their own business! However, there it is he's ruined he hasn't got a penny piece and, of course, he can't marry me, if well, if somebody don't help us out." Diana's face changed.
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