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"O God! O God! he answers not, he falters! Speak! Is it true?" "It is true. I am wedded to another." Sibyll did not fall to the ground, nor faint, nor give vent to noisy passion.
To Roger Mildred had written almost daily, telling him everything. Her letters were so frank and sincere that they dispelled the uneasiness which first took possession of his mind, and they gradually disarmed him of his hostility to the dying man. There is a point in noble souls beyond which enmity falters and fails, and he felt that Mildred's course toward Arnold was like the mercy of God.
His spectacles are often pushed back on his kindly brow, but no glass could wholly obscure the clear integrity and steadfast purity of his eyes; and as for his smile, I have not the art to paint that! It holds in solution so many sweet though humble virtues of patience, temperance, self-denial, honest endeavour, that my brush falters in the attempt to fix the radiant whole upon the canvas.
But I got word to Anna, and she came to me, and gave me clothes and many little things to comfort me, and got me out, and gave me money to get back to New York, where I have been ever since, haunted from place to place, with scarce a place to lay my head. Surely I have suffered. Shall I be forgiven?" Her voice here falters, she becomes weak, and seems sinking under the burden of her emotions.
Now believe me, you are not going to die yet. Remember you told me yourself that you meant to keep him waiting many a year." "Ay, one can joke when one is well, even in old age; but in sickness one's gayety falters to grief; and that which seemed small looks large; and the grim far-off seems near." Grace's eyes had tears in them.
It is so much more difficult for a man to be a woman's friend than it is for him to be by turns her worshipper and oppressor and you are made to conquer difficult things, and be made stronger by them. You have admirable qualities self-forgetfulness, lofty purpose, a will that never falters, a heart that never faints. I discovered all these before I received your letters.
The boy, in rough sort stunned by what he hears, falls to smearing his dirty forehead with his dirty palm, and to staring at the ground, and to shaking from head to foot until the crazy hoarding against which he leans rattles. Allan restrains the woman, merely by a quiet gesture, but effectually. "Richard told me " He falters.
No matter what the fire and force of his passion, it falters eventually, and forever after smoulders or goes out. He has nothing to fall back upon, no substitute; but a woman always has the mother love. When the disillusion comes, when the fairy story ends, if she is blessed with children, she doesn't mind.
It is but the extreme expression of a temper which has reduced the angularity of those who are very far from surrendering or belittling definite beliefs and doctrines. The denominationalist who used to have no hesitation in claiming a monopoly of the truth for his particular Church, now falters where he firmly stood. We are more ready to recognize our limitations.
"I see it now," murmurs the priest. "The children have been changed. For what object?" He tells Woods of the proofs gained in days of Louise's illness. "Your little friend is the heiress of Lagunitas?" Woods asks. "I am sure of it. We must prove it." "Leave that to me," bursts out Joe, striding the room, puffing at his cigar. "How will you do it?" falters the priest.
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