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He even bought a red-and-black pennant, with "Morris Valley Races" on it, and fastened it to the car. Charlie Sands, however, sat with his arms folded, stiff and severe. Once Tish bent forward and touched his arm. "You you don't think it will get in the papers, do you?" she quavered. Charlie Sands looked at her with gloom.
"Well, who the hell thought you did?" he inquired. The Swede backed rapidly towards a corner of the room. His hands were out protectingly in front of his chest, but he was making an obvious struggle to control his fright. "Gentlemen," he quavered, "I suppose I am going to be killed before I can leave this house! I suppose I am going to be killed before I can leave this house!"
She tell't him flat she loved another man." "Another man?" I echoed. "I explain yourself, if you please, Mr. Stair. What other man " He was at the door by this, and he broke out upon me in such a blast of cursing as I hope never to hear from the lips of such an old man again. "Ye cold-blooded, crusty devil!" he quavered, when all his breath was spent upon the bigger malisons.
"I wanted to see if they WOULD. And they've had to," Maggie added. "It was the only thing." Her friend appeared to wonder. "From the moment you and your father backed out?" "Oh, I don't mean go for those people; I mean go for us. For father and me," Maggie went on. "Because now they know." "They 'know'?" Fanny Assingham quavered. "That I've been for some time past taking more notice.
She knows her part and has played it once. You couldn't ask her to learn a new one just because you prefer hers." Claire's air of depression became more marked. "Priscilla," she quavered, "I don't see how I'm going to play that part. I don't know how I'll endure it." Priscilla's amazement grew. "Why, what's wrong with it? I think it's particularly cute."
It was a strange thought that came into my mind, that for all the ages these woods and lakelet had existed this was the first time they had echoed back our Scottish melodies. When Alice started Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon, we helped in the first verse, but as the scenes we had left rose before our minds voices quavered, until all became silent, tears flowed, and Mrs Auld was sobbing.
Life has made me what I am, and I should have thought that your knowledge of what my life has been would have gone far to excuse a lack of cheerfulness in me. The irony of this laborious period was full of self-pity. His voice quavered at the close, and a tremor was noticeable in his stiff frame. 'It isn't lack of cheerfulness that I mean, father.
"I told him to find a hole and crawl into it," quavered the Cap'n, fiddling trembling finger under his nose, "but I didn't tell him to pull the hole in after him." Mr. Reeves, left free to extricate himself from the quilt, bellowed to Mrs. Crymble and addressed the astonished Nute, who just then swung into the yard.
A scream inside the house made him sit up and listen. He was startled and bewildered. "Frank! Frank!" quavered the terror-filled tones of his aunt, as she knocked sharply at the door of his bedroom, "get up at once!" "What has happened?" inquired Frank quickly. "I don't know something dreadful, I am sure!" gasped the affrighted spinster. "It felt like an earthquake. It shook the whole town.
I wuz in hopes the boys wouldn' hev to go, bein as they wuz a fightin yisdy," quavered old Elnathan Hamlin, as he trotted about, helplessly trying to help, and only hindering Mrs. Hamlin, as with white face, but deft hands, and quick eyes, she was getting her two boys ready, filling their haversacks, sewing a button here, tightening a buckle there, and looking to everything.
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