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Swear by the holy oaths again you do not love him. She falters! Ah! she blushes!" For a burning brightness now suffused the cheek of Sybil. "She loves him," exclaimed Morley, wildly, and he rushed franticly from the room.
She nursed mamma from the very jaws of death, she got me my place in the fancy-store, and I believe she won't own it but I do believe she saved Charley's life." "Saved his life?" Edith falters. "It was such an awful time," Trix says in sombre tones, "we were starving, Edith, literally starving.
And now, the hand that traces these words, falters, as it approaches the conclusion of its task; and would weave, for a little longer space, the thread of these adventures. I would fain linger yet with a few of those among whom I have so long moved, and share their happiness by endeavouring to depict it.
It depends on how sorrow and trial are borne, whether they produce a dreary hopelessness which sometimes darkens into despair, or a brighter, firmer hope than more joyous days knew. We cannot say that sorrow produces hope. It does not, unless we have this connecting link the experience in sorrow of a God-given courage which falters not in the onward course, nor shrinks from any duty.
Here the army awaited its general, and the queen was saluted by the majestic voice of a hundred cannon and two hundred drums a voice before which all human eloquence falters, and which always has the last word.
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.
O, could I hear a voice from Heaven say unto me 'Yes, I should be comforted!" "Why, Philip! Have you, too, doubts? God Almighty help us, when the faith of His ministers falters!" "Bear with me now, Duncan; the darkness in my soul is deep and terrible to-night; death and the grave seem the only sure certainties we have in this world.
We hold our breath; it is superhuman, miraculous; but he never falters, so vehement is the impulse of his delight. It is only afterwards that we ask ourselves whether there is anything beyond the mere delight; and realising that, though we have been rapt far above the earth, we have had no disturbing glimpses of infinity, we are left with a slight flatness of disappointment.
They were good for primitive times: but they or the trick of the mind engendered by them trip my steps along the lines of composition. I produce pellets instead of flowing sheets. It'll come right. At present I 'm so bent to pick and perfect, polish my phrase, that I lose my survey. As a consequence, my vocabulary falters. 'Ah, Mr. Woodseer breathed and smote.
But when this thought arrived the Colonel was prompt to act. He called up the subject at once, and we have seen the close of his interview with Phyllis. Now he stood on the veranda and puffed his cigar with quick, short draughts, as a man does who falters between two horns of a dilemma.
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