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A rush of burning words from his lips would have driven her off at once to the desert and to death; his silence held her back it puzzled her and dropped like cool rain on the soaring flames of her pride, fell on the raging turmoil of her soul like oil on troubled water. She could not part from him thus, and her lips parted to call him once more by his name.
And so did Paul like the companionship of Mrs Hurtle because her attire, though simple, was becoming; because the colour glowed in her dark face; because of the brightness of her eyes, and the happy sharpness of her words, and the dangerous smile which played upon her lips.
"I'll give it the children," she said, and was going away; but he stopped her. "No, Ellen, there is not enough to do any good; you and I will drink each other's health in it; and he put the cup first to her lips and then to his own. God bless you, my Ellen!" he said, "my wife I pledge you again with that diamond.
Delancy's earnest request, Rose stayed to dinner, the waiting-man being tent to her father's, not far distant, to take word that she would not be at home until in the afternoon. OFTEN, during that morning, did the name of Irene come to their lips, for the thought of her was all the while present to both. "You must win her heart back again, Rose," said Mr. Delancy.
Don't you know what it is?" He said nothing; he made no gesture. "It is the party the country. You may put love aside, but duty is different. You have pledged yourself. You are not meant to draw back." Loder's lips parted. "Don't!" she said again. "Don't say anything! I know all that is in your mind.
I can only indicate briefly in a letter the line to be taken on this question. The life of sonship was unbroken. Remark: It is a quotation from a Psalm. It rises naturally to a suffering man's lips as expressive of agony, though not exactly framed for his individual agony. The spirit of the Psalm is one of trust, and hope, and full faith, notwithstanding the 1st verse.
If we make a present reality of the heroic songs of the early German popular poetry, and the chivalrous epics of the art poetry, the military expeditions and dress of the Crusades, this legendary poetry appears as the invention of humble pilgrims, who wander slowly on the weary way to Jerusalem, with scollop and pilgrim's staff, engaged in quiet prayer, till they are all to kneel at the Saviour's sepulchre; and thus contented, after touching the holy earth with their lips, they return, poor as they were, but full of holy comfort, to their distant home.
She paused, her lips parting in a smile that made Ranald's heart beat quick.
More closely observant, Leila saw that the lines of decisiveness were gone, the humorous circles about the mouth and eyes, as it were, flattened out, and that the whole face, with the lips a little languidly parted, had become expressionless.
Suddenly he raised himself on one elbow, and, shading his eyes, looked to where the vicar and Catherine were standing in front of the inn, touched for an instant by a beam of fitful light slipping between two great rain-clouds. 'How well that hat and dress become your sister! he said, the words breaking, as it were, from his lips.
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