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After a long wandering, I would come back and begin at my Bible again, but only for a little; my fancy could not be held to it; and a few scarcely read verses and a few half-uttered petitions were all I had accomplished before the clangour of the hotel gong, sounding down even to me, warned me that my time was gone.
"Do not weep," said Dr. Browne to her after the funeral, "it is vain, worse than vain." "Only tears are left me," she half-uttered. "Your children!" "They only speak to me of him." "But yourself; for your own sake do not thus yield to immoderate grief." "I tell you, Dr. Browne, my heart shall dash itself against this sorrow till it break break!" she exclaimed wildly.
Van Brinen," said Charmian. "Can you? Where is he?" Claude got up slowly, picked up the roses and the cablegram from the chair beside Charmian, put them behind him, and took the chair, bringing it forward quite to the front of the box. As he did so Charmian made a sound like a word half-uttered and checked. "Where is he?" Claude repeated.
The delirium of poor Anne continued for some time to find utterance, either by convulsive gesticulation, half-uttered expressions, and, occasionally, loud and vehement imprecations. At length, quite exhausted with her violence, which required all the efforts of her brother to subdue by positive force, she sunk into a state of insensibility.
"We do our best to guard dear Mary's reputation," said Miss Crewys. The impetuous canon sprang to his feet with a half-uttered exclamation; then recollecting the age and temperament of the speaker, he checked himself and tried to laugh. "I do not know," he said, "who has said, or ever could say, one single word against that against our dear and sweet Lady Mary.
It seemed but a moment after sleep had claimed us, when, struggling through the heavy darkness, came far-away light strands groping for our eyes, and soft, half-uttered music questioning the ear.
On that occasion the sort of formality that had been always present in our intercourse vanished from our speech; I believe I called him "dear boy," and he tacked on the words "old man" to some half-uttered expression of gratitude, as though his risk set off against my years had made us more equal in age and in feeling.
'No, I deny it! it was not I! said Glossin, in half-uttered accents; and, struggling in his agony to express his denial more distinctly, he awoke. It was, however, conscience that had prepared this mental phantasmagoria.
The whole company, in gloomy, quiet attitudes, gazed at the sky, which seemed to grow lower and narrower, and to approach the earth nearer and nearer, until both, hiding beneath a dark veil, like lovers, began a mysterious discourse, interpreting their feelings in the stifled sighs, whispers, murmurs, and half-uttered words, of which the marvellous music of the evening is composed.
The hand was snatched away to be pressed to her face. O that those old times were back again, and she a child that could ask his protection! no one to give it now. He was silent a moment. Fleda's head bowed beneath the mental pressure. "Has Dr. Gregory returned?" The negative answer was followed by a half-uttered exclamation of longing checked midway, but sufficiently expressive of her want.
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