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Presently I discovered that Maître Jacques's was the ministering hand, M. Étienne's the shoulder. After all, this was not heaven, but still Paris. I had no desire to speak so long as the flow of old Jacques's best Burgundy continued; but when he saw my eyes wide open, he stopped, and I said, my voice, to my surprise, very faint and quavery: "What happened?" "Dear, brave lad! You fainted!"
At that Grannie fell to rocking herself as well as the child, and to singing a hymn in a quavery voice. Then with a rattle and a rush, throwing off his coat and tramping the floor in his shirt-sleeves, while Nancy dished up the dinner, Pete began to enlarge on Kate's happiness in the place where she had gone. "Tremenjous grand the ould man's house is you wouldn't believe.
The good old gentlemen who come up to eat Commencement dinners and to sing with quavery voices the annual psalm thereafter, are bewildered in the mazes of the college-speech of their grandsons. Whence come these phrases few can tell. Like witty Dr.
The gaunt, ecclesiastical tails of my borrowed frock coat were on the verge of being safely outside with me when she cried out. Whereupon I swiftly transposed myself, and stuck my head through the half-open door. "Oh, it's you!" she cried, in a quavery voice. She was leaning forward in the chair, her eyes wide open and eager. I advanced into the room. A look of doubt sprang into her face.
Then it rises in pitch, and gets impatient and lonely and wild-like, till you think it fills the air above you, when it sinks again and dies away in a queer, quavery sound that ain't a sigh, nor a groan, nor a grunt, but all three together.
"What was needed to be said," that old sour-dough with the lack-luster eyes quietly informed me. "What did you say?" I repeated, with a quavery feeling just under my floating ribs, alarmed at the after-light of audacity that still rested on his face, like wine-glow on a rocky mountain-tip.
The black-haired one mounted a stone, and pointing her finger alternately at herself and at her sister, went through the incantation: "Eevery, ivery, ickery Ann, Fillacy, fallacy, Nicholas Dan; Queevery, quavery, English navy, Come striddle, come straddle, come out!" The last word was uttered as she pointed at her sister, and the fair-haired twin sprang up in triumph.
"I would suggest that you go to Doctor Z, at such-and-such an address. You are exactly in Z's line. I'll let him know that you are coming and when, and I'll send him down my diagnosis." So that same afternoon, the appointment having been made by telephone, I went, full of quavery emotions, to Doctor Z's place.
Wa'nt dat much, tho', fer big strong mans brung mo' dan wimmens an' gals." Long pauses accentuated the quavery voice of the old Negro, whose head resembled a nappy patch of cotton, and who was so enthusiastic over reminiscing about the days when she was young and carefree. "I was born in Huntsville, Alabamy, an' my mammy an' pappy was name Silby an' Sharper Conley.
Walking about from river to quay, and going on with all that rubbish it's shocking, ma'am, it's shocking!" "Hush-a-bye, hush-a-bye!" It was the voice of Grannie, low and quavery; she was rocking the cradle. "You can't spake to him neither but he's scolding you scandalous.