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"Yes; it is quite apparent that the Blithers family intends to have a title at any cost," she said, and her eyes flashed. "Would you like to take a few turns, Miss Guile?" he inquired, a trace of nervousness in his manner. "I think I can take you safely over the hurdles and around the bunkers."
Readiness was not his strong point; as a preacher he never could overcome his nervousness. He asked leave to retire to his cell, and there in solitude wrung out some verses of compliment; which found such favour that, to his regret, he was often called upon again. In 1507, when only thirty, he was made Prior, and thus became responsible for much of the management of the abbey.
The effect was unsatisfactory; for Elgood was a timid nervous boy, and the uneasiness to which this nervousness gave rise was set down as a sign of guilt.
It was a point he had never since ventured to press, vaguely fearing as he did that it might become a difference, perhaps a disagreement, between them. He had in this later time turned nervous, which was what he in all the other years had never been; and the oddity was that his nervousness should have waited till he had begun to doubt, should have held off so long as he was sure.
Evidently they have weighed his food, measured his exercise, and bought his amusements; his only free will and vent is to get in a temper. They give him no chance to sweat off his irritation, only to fume; while that shaking, snorting teakettle of an automobile they bowl him about in, puts the final touch to his nervousness."
Presently I saw the jungle shake, and a hog-deer dashed out within a few yards of me; the elephant whisked suddenly round; this prepared me for a display of his nervousness. Again the rose bushes moved, and I distinctly observed a yellowish body stealing beneath the tangled mass; it was quickly lost to sight.
But on the other hand, to disturb his slumber was to interfere with the continuity of the great experiment, to break through a rule lately made, to incur the risk of an accident, if not of death itself. She drew back at the thought, as though fearing to startle him, and then she smiled at her own nervousness. To wake him she must exercise her will.
Greatly fortified by this interview, Lady Valleys rejoined her daughter in the ear; but while it slid on amongst the multitudinous traffic, signs of unwonted nervousness began to start out through the placidity of her face. "I wish, my dear," she said suddenly, "that someone else had to do this. Suppose Eustace refuses!" "He won't," Barbara answered; "she looks so tired, poor dear. Besides "
He brought it to a stop opposite the summerhouse, jumped out and approached the rendezvous. Summoning all her courage, she held the Poem ready in her hand. "Good morning, Missy," he sang out. "What's all the mystery?" For answer Missy could only smile a smile made wan by nervousness and extend the two crumpled sheets of paper.
"But this man's life is not for always, and if anything happened to him it would seem curious to strangers to find that on his breast because, of course, more than I would see it there." "If anything happened? What should happen? You mean, on board ship?" There was a little nervousness in her tone now. "I am only hinting at an awkward possibility," I replied. She looked at me scornfully.
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