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I was desperate; I hated the city. I was willing to take a chance for the sake of getting among people who would be kind to me who were good." "Bah!" exclaimed Ida May raucously. "You're not fit to go among good people!" Sheila did not heed her. She spoke slowly haltingly, but what she said held the old people silent. "Tunis is not to blame.
How does he feel?" "He ... he is happy, too," came her reply, somewhat haltingly. "Of course, just at first ... oh, please don't ask me, Don. But now he is content, for he knows that I ... I couldn't ever have been anything else to him, because I loved ano.... I loved you." "He knows that? Rose, you didn't tell him?" "Yes, I did," she answered, bravely.
Then very haltingly at first, but afterwards more easily, he began to tell of the thing that was hidden in his life, the haunting memory of a beauty and a happiness that filled his heart with insatiable longings, that made all the interests and spectacle of worldly life seem dull and tedious and vain to him. Now that I have the clue to it, the thing seems written visibly in his face.
The Republican leaders felt that without the supervising and counteracting power of Congress, full force and effect might not be given to the Reconstruction laws by the President; that they might possibly be neutralized by hostile action from the office of the Attorney-General, and that for this reason it would be well, nay, it was imperatively demanded, that the legislative power should be kept ready to interpose with fresh enactments, the very moment those already in force should be dulled by adverse construction, or haltingly administered by Executive agents not in sympathy with the policy of Congress.
There was another long silence and then, feeling extremely nervous, I murmured haltingly, 'I I wonder if you missed me when I was away nursing my great sick aunt I I mean my sick great-aunt. Did did the time seem long? 'I I'm not quite sure, he stammered, obviously as ill at ease as myself.
He either commanded the absolute obedience of men who came near him or he sent them from him with a repulsion as strong as the attraction to those who liked him. He felt the smothering power of this spell over his own mind now and tried to break it. "Mr. Brown," Townsley began haltingly, "I've brought you here now. You are snug in camp. I'd like to take my team back home." "To-night?" "To-night."
"I'm goin' to let it go over to-night," she faltered. Then she laid a stiff hand on her husband's sweat-damp sleeve. "Tom Drake," she gulped, "I'm afraid me an' you are facin' the greatest trouble we've ever had." "What's wrong now?" he asked, swift visions of moonshine stills, armed officers, and grim court officials flashing before him. Haltingly she explained the situation.
The lama, haltingly at first, spoke to the Curator of his own lamassery, the Such-zen, opposite the Painted Rocks, four months' march away. The Curator brought out a huge book of photos and showed him that very place, perched on its crag, overlooking the gigantic valley of many-hued strata. 'Ay, ay! The lama mounted a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles of Chinese work.
But when in answer to the lieutenant's rating he began to excuse himself, it was evident even to an ear so untrained and ignorant as mine that he spoke in a language which was not his own. He spoke haltingly and stammeringly; and at last, despairing of making himself understood, he made a little motion of his hands without moving them from his sides, and so stood as if to receive sentence.
"I'll let you out," said the latter, "but I am a prisoner; I cannot let myself out!" He moved haltingly to the door, opened it, and the dog ran forth. Glenfernie returned to the window. "Prisoner." The word brought to his strongly visualizing mind prisoners and prisons through all Britain this summer shackled prisoners, dark prisons, scaffolds.... He leaned his head against the window-frame.
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