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During the greater part of it, I was in that vilest of states when a fixed idea remains in the mind, like the nail in Sisera's brain, while innumerable other ideas go and come, and flutter to and fro, combining constant transition with intolerable sameness.
She wondered a little how Jerry had approached it, and told herself with a beating heart that she would have to take her own line of action. Nevertheless, for a full week she did nothing, and at the end of that week the flutter in the Winhalla Railway shares had subsided completely, and all Jerry's high hopes were dead.
He rode on as he spoke, and deep in one of the woodland paths he saw the flutter of a woman's garment, and, greatly to his surprise, overtook Elsie, who seemed to be walking along with great rapidity, and, startled by the approach of hoofs behind her, looked up at him, with a pale cheek. "Good morning, Miss Elsie," said the Warden. "You are taking a long walk this morning.
But the unspiritual one was riding the new horse at a furious gallop, and the glance of reproof was unnoted save by the old man who wondered if it might be by any absurd twist that the boy most like the godless father were more godly than the one so like his mother that every note of his little voice and every full glance of his big blue eyes made the old heart flutter.
Richard leaned over, and tried to take my hand, whispering, in a low voice, 'Bessie. I confess I was rather in a flutter, and could think of nothing better to say than 'Sir! in a tone of surprise and indignation. He went on hurriedly "'Bessie, he said, 'we have known each other only a few days, but in those few days I have lived in Paradise.
'I have thought myself of a reason against it, the Dauphin said quickly, yet with a flutter of timidity. 'This man's name is Saint-Pol. Richard grew bleak in a moment. 'That, he said, 'is why I shall kill him. He seeks to drive us to marriage. Injurious beast! His name is Pandarus. Then he left the Dauphin and shut himself up until the day of battle.
High before her she bore the gold and blood-red flag of Spain, and, like a fugitive leaping from behind his prison-walls, she raced forward for her freedom, to give battle, to meet her death. A shell from the Iowa shrieked its warning in a shrill crescendo, a flutter of flags painted their message against the sky.
She wrote under the tremendous inspiration: "So do I. Don't be silly. She fastened the paper to the thread again, and gave it a little twitch. She waited for the low note of laughter which did not fail to flutter down from above; then she threw herself upon the bed, and fell asleep.
It was the half-length portrait of a young lady in the costume of the reign of Louis XVI. One hand rested on a stone urn; the other was raised to her bosom, holding a thin blue scarf that seemed to flutter in the wind. Her dress was of white satin, cut low and square, with a stomacher of lace and pearls. She also wore pearls in her hair, on her white arms, and on her whiter neck.
It was easy because the presence before him was from moment to moment, referring itself back to some recent observation or memory; something caught somewhere, within a few weeks or months, as he had moved about, and that seemed to flutter forth at this stir of the folded leaves of his recent experience very much as a gathered, faded flower, placed there for "pressing," might drop from between the pages of a volume opened at hazard.
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