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I wanted to reason with myself, and bring myself face to face with those cursed suggestions, as one does with a skittish horse before some object that frightens it, and to evoke the recollection of every hour, every minute of that first night of love, and to extract the secret from her....
Sometimes of nights she almost frightens one, going about on this phantom errand, and still following the sepulchral response of the chimney, round and round, as if it were leading her to the threshold of the secret closet. "How hollow it sounds," she will hollowly cry. "Yes, I declare," with an emphatic tap, "there is a secret closet here. Here, in this very spot. Hark! How hollow!"
"Do I really help you, Mr. Kinney?" Draxy would reply, with a lingering emphasis on the "really," which made her husband draw her closer to him and forget to speak: "It seems very strange to me that I can. I feel so ignorant about souls. It frightens me to answer the smallest question the people ask me.
There was plainly something on his mind. "I wish, miss, we could manage to keep Mr. Roger from going about in all weathers the way he's doing. With this fever on him I'm afraid he'll come to harm. It fair frightens me to see him looking as he does and taking no care of himself." The old lady shook her head in despair.
See here, Mary Louise: it isn't wise, or even safe, for me to tell you anything just yet. What I know frightens me even me! Can't you wait and trust me?" "Oh, of course," responded Mary Louise in a disappointed voice. "But I fail to understand what Professor Dyer's old desk can possibly have to do with our quest." Josie laughed. "It used to belong to the Dudley-Markhams." "The Dudley-Markhams!
"A rose in the bud that's Rosemary," said Winnie who scorned to read poetry and often employed poetical fancies in her rather quaint phrasing. "A rose in the bud and a flower of a girl. A temper that blazes, a quick pride that bleeds at a word and a passion for loving that sometimes frightens me. The sick and the helpless and the young Rosemary would mother 'em all.
I must speak; and whom shall I trust if not you?" "Father, you frighten me!" said Agricola, "What is the matter?" "Why, you see, had it not been for you and the two poor girls, I should have blown out my brains twenty times over rather than see what I see and dread what I do." "What do you dread, father?" "Since the last few days, I do not know what has come over the marshal but he frightens me."
In truth, the hour has arrived when a "Renaissance" of the free spirit of Poetry in Drama is required. Why must this monstrous shadow of the Hyperborean Ibsen go on darkening the play-instinct in us, like some ugly, domineering John Knox? I suspect that there are many generous Rabelaisian souls who could lift our mortal burden with oceanic merriment, only the New Movement frightens them.
For two leagues around, nobody is about at this hour and everybody within our walls is accustomed to the noise of the gas exploding." "Not everybody," remonstrated Antonino. "Madame Clemenceau has returned home and the sound frightens her because so strange." "It is so. That's another matter," replied the inventor, putting the rifle down in the corner without haste. "Did you know it?
Nevertheless, some parts grew clearer, as one by one I remembered them, having taken a little soft cordial, because the memory frightens me.
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