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He could not but observe, however, that as he placed her down her knees seemed to fail her, and she could scarcely prop herself up with her staff. "You are weak, mother," said he. "Hast journeyed far, I wot." "From Wiltshire, friend," said she, in a quavering voice; "three days have I been on the road. I go to my son, who is one of the King's regarders at Brockenhurst.
And Mishka the Singer, who was no singer at all, but the owner of a drug warehouse, at once, upon entering, sang out in a vibrating, quavering, goatish voice: "They fe-e-e-l the tru-u-u-u-uth! Come thou daw-aw-aw-aw-ning..." which he perpetrated at every visit of his to Anna Markovna. Almost incessantly they played the quadrille, waltz, polka, and danced.
She smiled with an odd passionateness. "Who was my lover!" she cried, her voice a-thrill. "Who will ever be my lover, though I have denied him, though I have left him to die! It was just. He who has so tried me knows it was just! He whom I have sacrificed he knows it too, now! But it is hard to be just," with a quavering smile.
A long, quavering howl, mingled of rage and desperation, answered in Willy Woolly's voice. "You hear?" said Stepfather Time anxiously to the Little Red Doctor. "The dog is not himself." They saw him rear up against the clock case. He seemed to be trying to tear it open with his teeth.
They turn at his entrance, and Mistress Sadler bids him come in; her cousin at her elbow praises his eyes shade of hazel nut, she calls them. And Gammer, peering to find the cause of interruption and spying him, pushes a stool out from under her feet and curving a yellow, shaking finger, beckons and points him to it. But while doing so, she does not stay her quavering and garrulous recital.
There was a long sigh, quavering with tears. "I know how fearfully difficult it all is, only, Arthur, why must you decide at once? Why not wait a bit?" "If I wait, I lose the job. That's why. I thought you understood. Besides, what is there to hang about here for?" "Well ... There's always a chance, isn't there?"
In spite of the clutching hand of the wind and the quavering of the ship under Ned's inexpert guidance, Tom managed to reach his goal. Removing the cap with no little difficulty, he dumped the precious drops of gasoline into the tank. In a few moments he got back to the cabin. As he closed the door the laboring engine once more resumed its full-throated roar.
Since then he has been ill. I've come to ask you if you'll drive back with me and see if if you cannot persuade him that you are happy. He seems to be much troubled." "Troubled?" "He seems to be afraid you are not happy. You know," she added with a little quavering smile, "Tussie is very kind. He is very unselfish. He takes everybody's burdens on his shoulders.
His brow had the little puckerings of a thoroughly discontented man, little wrinklings and lumps, particularly over his right eye, and he sat with his hands in his pockets, a little askew on the stile and swung one leg. "Hole!" he repeated presently. He broke into a quavering song. "Ro-o-o-tten Be-e-astly Silly Hole!"
"Ay, here you are, Neb, nigger-like, and not knowing whether to stay or to go," growled the mate, busy the whole time in shipping two oars. "You put me in mind of a great singer I once heard in Liverpool; a chap that would keep shaking and quavering at the end of a varse, in such a style that he sometimes did not know whether to let go or to hold on.
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