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In his peroration he rose to the occasion, and amid breathless silence, facing the court, who quailed before him, demanded whether this was a temple of justice. Replying to his own interrogatory, he dipped his brush in the sunshine of life, and sketched a throne with womanhood enshrined upon it.
He cannot go back from his engagement without laying himself open to imputation of bad conduct." "Nor can I." "Pardon me, dear. That depends, I think, upon what passes between you. It is at any rate for you to propose the release to him, not to fix him with the burthen of proposing it." Mary's heart quailed as she heard this, but she did not show her feeling by any expression on her face.
Being carried beyond myself by his insolence about Lorna, I looked at Master Stickles so, and spake in such a voice, that all his daring courage and his spotless honour quailed within him, and he shrank as if I would strike so small a man. Then I left him, and went to work at the sacks upon the corn-floor, to take my evil spirit from me before I should see mother.
You'd far better send Moriarty back to the barrack before he makes a worse fool of himself than he has already." "Get along home out of that, Moriarty," said the sergeant. "Do you want me to have to report you to the District Inspector for neglect of duty?" The threat was a terrific one. Moriarty quailed before it.
Suddenly he stopped, then turned about, and came stumbling back, screaming in a great panic, "No, it's a bear, a big black one!" and hid his face in Nan's skirts. For a moment Nan quailed; ever her courage gave out at the thought of a real bear, and she was about to turn and flee in great disorder, when a mild "Moo!" changed her fear to merriment, as she said, laughing,
She looked at him; and he, convicted of a foolish falsehood, quailed. "There is a splendid view of the castle from here," he continued, to change the subject. "Miss Goff and I have just been talking about it." "Yes. Do you admire it?" "Very much indeed. It is a beautiful place. Every one must acknowledge that." "It is considered kind to praise my house to me, and to ridicule it to other people.
The man was just pushing off his barrow when he stopped and came close to the Major. "I'll tell you what, sir," he said. "If you're interested in them things, you just get on to that wall." "On the wall!" cried the scandalised Major, whose conventional soul quailed within him at the thought of such fantastic trespass.
She hurried from it to the old house in Kensington in which the Merricks had lived for years; and as she saw the house, so black with dust, and the steps that led up to the heavy front door, even Sally's heart quailed.
For a moment her heart quailed; but it was but for a moment. She shut her eyes, and gave the little horse his head. For a moment she thought that she was in the water. Her horse was almost upright on the bank, with his hind-feet down among the broken ground, and she was clinging to his neck. But she was light, and the beast made good his footing, and then she knew that she had done it.
"I am the only friend he has got in Trimington. It's natural he should be here." Mr. Clark quailed at her glance. "People are beginning to talk," he muttered, feebly. "Talk?" said the widow, with an air of mystification belied by her color. "What about?" Mr. Clark quailed again. "About about our wedding," he stammered. Mr. Tucker and the widow exchanged glances.
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