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They were sewn throughout shoes for a grown man, yet sewn throughout! Moreover, the factory stamp was under the sole. In Jeppe's opinion they were not worth a couple of shillings. But he could not get over the fact that they were machine-made. "Then we are superfluous," he said, in a quavering voice. All his old importance seemed to have fallen from him.
It was an impressive sight, and one which I shall not forget. On the afternoon of the day preceding the funeral the same priest came to me again, and I received him in the drawing-room, where I was writing a letter to Totnes. He was an old man, a very old man, with a quavering voice, but he would not sit down.
She seemed trying to live in my life, and at length became afraid to let me out of her sight. One day she said to me, in her quavering, ugly voice old voices are so ugly, like hideous echoes: "Ronald, I could never die while you were in the room. So long as you are with me, where I can touch you, I shall live." And she put out her white, corrugated hand, and fondled my warm boy's hand.
'I saw this in darkness. First came a man to make things clear. Then came horsemen. Then came He standing in a ring of light. The rest followed as I have said. Old man, have I spoken truth? 'It is He. Past all doubt it is He. The crowd drew a long, quavering breath, staring alternately at the old man, still at attention, and ragged Kim against the purple twilight.
So genuine was the sympathy beneath the quavering inquiry that it brought to Martin's troubled heart a gratifying sense of warmth and fellowship. "No," he said, his impatience melting to gentleness. "Don't worry, Jane. I've just got to do a little thinking by myself, that's all." "It ain't money you're fussin' over then," said his sister, with a sigh of relief. "No no, indeed.
"Yes, it was," Patty assented, her heart beginning to throb violently. "Thank you. And I have been looking for it high and low." Patty passed the bag to her enemy. How to begin, how to begin! "Mrs. Haldene!" Patty's voice was high-pitched and quavering. "Why, Patty!" "Why did you write this base letter to me!" exhibiting the letter resolutely. "Do not deny that you wrote it.
She looked once at him, her eyes wide, her gaze intent, as though she wanted to be sure that it was really he, and then she drew a long, quavering breath and covered her face with her hands. "Oh," she said; "it was horrible!" She uncovered her face and looked up at him. "Why," she added, "I have been here since before dark! And it must be after midnight, now!" "It's about nine.
And then a long breathless pause, in which our wide-eyed group below huddled still closer, pale and mute. Then far off and faint and quavering with a tenderness of pathos that dews the eyes of memory even now came, like a belated echo, the voice all desolate: "Oh she has gone home!" What a queer girl she was, and what a fascinating influence she unconsciously exerted over us!
She's getting a big girl now, and I'll be taking her out in the Dandie with me and tying her down on the low deck there and giving her a pig's bladder, and she'll be playing away as nice as nice. See?" Nancy looked at him, and he dropped his eyes before her. "Is it wanting to get done with me, you are, Pete?" she said in a quavering voice.
Shorty's voice broke; his lips quivered; his voice rose to a screech of impotent, awful rage. Brokenly, he told Lawler what had happened after the stampeding of the cattle by Antrim's men. He related, in tumbling, rapid, quavering sentences, how he had got the help Blackburn had sent him for Caldwell's outfit with the exception of two men who had been sent in different directions to other ranches.
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