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I am prepared to believe on the very lightest assurance that these things do happen, but are hushed up for reasons which would be cogent enough if they were available. Mrs. Makebelieve opened the letter which the evening's post had brought to her. She had pondered well before opening it, and had discussed with her daughter all the possible people who could have written it.
There are strange sounds in No Man's Land; not human sounds, for such carry far the beat of a hammer on a post, the sharp twang of unrolling barbed wire as it catches, and then springs away voices even come as through a megaphone in the eerie silence but these are long-drawn sighs that penetrate the inner consciousness and hushed murmurs that fall on the ear of the soul.
His vows of vengeance were for a moment hushed by the unanimous resolution of the council that, as first marshal of France, having his principality on the frontier, and being of the Reformed religion, he was the fittest of all to command the expedition. Surely it might be said that the winds and tides were not more changeful than the politics of the Queen's government.
It was Maggie in descent from the bedrooms. Therefore the voices of the Baineses always died away, or fell to a hushed, mysterious whisper, whenever the foot of the eavesdropper was heard. Mrs. Baines put a floured finger to her double chin. "That will do," said she, with finality. Maggie appeared, and Sophia, with a brusque precipitation of herself, vanished upstairs. "Now, really, Mr.
It was extremely grand; the roar of the falls so entirely hushed all other sounds that the voices of the hounds were perfectly inaudible, although within a few yards of me, as I looked down upon them from a rock that overhung the river.
Holding the baby close, he breathed, "Don't, brat, dear! Look at me. I been feelin' yer daddy round all day, too. He'll always be near to help you an' the little kid." A pathetic trembling of her lips hushed the flow of his words. "It seems's if I couldn't live, Andy. I dunno how I can, I dunno how!" Her voice trailed away into a plaintive moan.
She hushed her sobs and drew back a little from the comforting rough coat where she had lain. “Indeed, indeed, I could not help it, David,”—she faltered, trying to smile like a bit of rainbow through the rain. “I know you couldn’t, child.” His answer was wonderfully kind and his eyes smiled at her as they had never done before.
"Oh, sad and solemn is the trembling watch Of those who sit and count the heavy hours Beside the fevered sleep of one they love! Oh, awful is it in the hushed midnight, While gazing on the pallid moveless form, To start and ask, 'Is it now sleep or death?" ANONYMOUS.
It was very thrilling, and very terrible: a certain air of hushed awe reigned in the booth where this mechanical wonder was displayed. The booth itself stood in a secluded portion of the grounds, far from the toll gates, and the band stand and the noise of the merry-go-round, and there were great texts, written in red letters on a black ground, pinned all along the walls.
Just here she did glance up, and all the school glanced with her. The drone of the reader hushed. The door opened softly, and upon the threshold stood Zora.
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