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But when she approached the dinner at the elder Cameron's, her lip quivered in a grieved kind of way as she remembered what Wilford had said of her to his mother, but she would not tell this to Morris, it was not necessary to her story, and so she said: "They were talking of what I ought never to have heard, and it seemed as if the walls were closing me in so that I could not move to let them know I was there.
Bruce kept his eyes on his face and answered with grave hesitation: "No not afraid but I'd like to live a little longer. I've made such a mess of it, I'd like to try again." Then he paused, and his lips quivered a little. "There's my mother, you know," he added, apologetically, "and Jim." Jim was his younger brother and sworn chum.
Glover," he said nervously. "I'll do that with pleasure," said Annis promptly. In spite of herself her lips quivered and her eyes danced. "I've loved you ever since the first time I saw you!" said Wilson with sudden vehemence. Utterly unprepared for this direct attack, Miss Gething had no weapon to meet it. The tables were turned, and reddening with confusion, she looked away and made no reply.
He felt again that terrible thrill of agony, because he, alone, of all the score and more of Northern millions, knew that the Southern trap was about to fall, and he could not tell. Never was he further from sleep. His nerves quivered with actual physical pain. He opened his eyes again and saw the dim forms lying in row on row as far in the forest as his eye could reach. Then he listened.
But the memory of it all suddenly came to Edith, and even by the lantern's light, Arden saw the sudden crimson pour into her face and neck, She gave one wild, deprecating look around, and then buried her face in her hands as if to hide the look of scorn she expected to see on every face. The first arrow aimed by Zell's great wrong already quivered in her heart.
And, above all, master of the dear name of her Tom that nothing could take from her now not even the law! With this tightening of her will power there quivered through her a sense of her own wrongs the wrongs she had endured for years, the wrongs that had so nearly wrecked her life.
"Hurraar! Brrrraaah! Brrrrrrp!" roared the Steam through the fog-horn, till the decks quivered. "Don't be frightened, below. It's only me, just throwing out a few words, in case any one happens to be rolling round to-night." "You don't mean to say there's any one except us on the sea in such weather?" said the funnel, in a husky snuffle. "Scores of 'em," said the Steam, clearing its throat.
The roar that had seemed distant was now back in the forest, coming swiftly, increasing in volume. Like a stream in flood it bore down. Helen grew amazed, startled. How rushing, oncoming, and heavy this storm-wind! She likened its approach to the tread of an army. Then the roar filled the forest, yet it was back there behind her. Not a pine-needle quivered in the light of the camp-fire.
Vincent," our hero said. "Good-evening, Frank, my boy," said the colonel, heartily. "Glad to see you. Haven't you gone back to school?" "Yes, sir; but I came home to spend Sunday. It doesn't seem much like home now," he added, as his lip quivered. "You have suffered a great loss, my dear boy," said the colonel, feelingly. "The greatest, sir. My mother was all I had." "I suppose Mr.
"What for?" asked Bubbles, always interested in the smallest details of sporting propositions. "Poker-chips," said Harry, and Bubbles looked his disgust. There was a minute's silence, then: "Harry," said Bubbles, "what do you think he's up to?" "By George," said Harry, "I can't make out. What do you think?" Bubbles's sensitive mouth quivered eagerly.
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