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"Oh! you loved him!" she quavered, as if that were the one question for which she had sought the answer. And the next thing I knew we were crying in each other's arms, the little frail woman and the cruel girl who was deceiving her. But, Padre, the cruel girl was suffering almost as she deserved to suffer. She had loved Jim Wyndham, and never will she love another man. "There, there!" Mr.
"Shall I go for help?" Miss Giddings quavered. "The poor creature is harmless, I think," Mrs. Van Wyck replied. "And just look at her skin-clothes, ragged and trail-worn and all that. They are certainly unique. I shall buy them for my collection. Get my sack, Myrtle, please, and set up the scales."
If you have enemies I will not sell you into their hands, and you can make the mortgage for as long a period as you please, up to three years. Give me a list of banks to keep away from. I don't want to hurt you unnecessarily, I assure you." "Thank you, McGraw" quavered his victim. "If you'll let me sit at my desk I'll draw those checks." "Certainly. Only I want the checks certified, Carey.
"Awful big and shaggy," quavered Roxy, clinging to Tilly, while Rhody hid in Prue's skirts, and piped out: "His great paws kept clawing at us, and I was so scared my legs would hardly go." "We ran away as fast as we could go, and he come growling after us. He's awful hungry, and he'll eat every one of us if he gets in," continued Sol, looking about him for a safe retreat.
Miss Moppet opened her eyes to their widest; then slowly and deliberately she grasped the situation in "high Roman fashion." "Betty Wolcott, do I live to see you weep over a scarlet coat!" No answer; indeed, Betty scarcely heard the words. The flood-gates were let loose and the agony of days and months must have its way. "Betty!" this time the voice of reproving patriotism quavered somewhat.
And if any of you quitters and cowards have got anything to say why my sentence won't be carried out, now is the time to say it." He glowered into their faces, but no one said anything except Zeburee Nute, who quavered: "We allus knowed you was the smartest man that ever came to this town, and " "Close that mouth!" yelped Cap'n Sproul. "It's worse than an open hatch on a superphosphate schooner."
The way her hand brought her apron-corner up to her mouth, as though to stifle the fear that shook her, was so groping, somehow, so uncertain, that, paradoxically, the pitifulness of it reacted to make him savage. When she quavered her next question, "What was he doin' in the mill?" he turned toward the stairway again, flinging his answer over his shoulder. "Learnin' the business, that's what.
The old rebel yell of Morgan's raiders quavered from his throat. They rushed him. With no room even for six-gun work he turned his revolver into a club. His arm rose and fell in the mêlée as the drive of the rustlers swept him to and fro. So savage was the defense of their victim against the hillmen's onslaught that he beat them off.
"The Flying Patty, Aunt Lettice," the girl answered over her shoulder. "Get your hood and come with us to the wharf." Mistress Lettice Verney emerged from the hall, two red spots burning in her withered cheeks, and her tall thin figure quivering with excitement. "I am all ready, child," she quavered.
Almost ready to cry, they turned down the garden again. "We've got to get home to-night somehow!" said Ingred through her set teeth. "Shall we go to the police station?" quavered Verity. "And give ourselves up like lost children? No, it's too undignified! Wait a moment, I've got an idea!" said Beatrice.
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