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She stood as at cross-roads, and watched, with hand-shaded eyes, the tiny, wayward babe dwindling on its journey to heaven; the man she had married dwindling on his journey whither? And the one she had a full hope of meeting again, but the other After the funeral the Lanes took up once more the old dual life which had been momentarily interrupted.
O'Malley knew himself caught, swept off his feet, momentarily driving with him.... The singular deep satisfaction of it, standing there with these two in the first moment, he describes as an entirely new sensation in his life an awareness that he was "complete." The boy touched his side and he let an arm steal round to shelter him.
He entered the room and faced the woman calmly. "I'm glad to meet you," he said, this time without extending his hand. "I beg to impress upon both you and Mr. Robinson that, such as I am, Dorothy chose me of her own free will to occupy my present position." Mrs. Robinson was momentarily speechless. Her husband now stood in the door.
Go back to the couch; I can't let you kneel here. Sit down over there, and let me tell you." Lady Ingleby rose at once and returned to her seat; then sat listening her yearning eyes fixed upon his bowed head. He had momentarily forgotten what the events of that night had cost her; so also had she. Her only thought was of his pain.
We were therefore not uncomfortable, as far as our feelings went, could we have divested ourselves of the recollection of the peril to which we were momentarily exposed. Oh how long that night seemed! I fancied, that it would never have an end: each minute seemed prolonged to an hour each hour to a winter's night.
In only one respect did Go-bu-balu seem to progress he readily was mastering the language of the apes. Even now he and Tarzan could converse in a fairly satisfactory manner by supplementing the meager ape speech with signs; but for the most part, Go-bu-balu was silent other than to answer questions put to him. His great sorrow was yet too new and too poignant to be laid aside even momentarily.
There was a thick stubble of beard of several days' growth about his chin and face; his eyes were furtive in their glances, but of a deep blue that contrasted oddly with his blackness when he momentarily raised them. He wore a tattered jerkin, and his legs, in default of stockings, were swathed in soiled bandages and cross-gartered from ankle to knee.
Kit-Ki's voice was gently raised at intervals; at intervals some grinning puppy, unable to longer endure the nourishing odours, lost self-control and yapped, then lowered his head, momentarily overcome with mortification. All the children talked continuously, unlimited conversation being permitted until it led to hostilities or puppy-play.
There comes back, too, among these Hardingham memories, an impression of a drizzling November day, and how we looked out of the windows upon a procession of the London unemployed. It was like looking down a well into some momentarily revealed nether world.
I was in danger of my life but momentarily redeemed, as it were, from the precincts of eternity every minute, from the fierceness of the raving being beside me; and I could scarcely hope that all those protracted efforts of the workmen would ever raise us from the immense depth at which we were thus fixed by some great cause.
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