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"None but you, George," said William, with a voice half stern, half quivering. George looked at his brother. "Out with it," cried he, "it is some deadly ill-luck; I have felt it coming all day, but out with it; what can't I bear after the words I have borne this morning?" William hung his head. "George, there is a distress upon the farm for the rent."
Sometimes, during the summer weather, comes down our street a certain tremulous old troubadour with an aged cithern, on which he strums feebly with bones which remain to him from former fingers, and in a thin quivering voice pipes worn-out ditties of youth and love.
Her blue eyes were very wide and dark. "Am I going to walk?" she asked, in a queer little whisper. "Certainly, except when you're riding, or sitting down, or asleep." "I can't believe it," she answered, with quivering lips. Then she threw her arms around Doctor Allan's neck and kissed him with the sweet impulsiveness of a child. "Thank you," he said, softly. "Now we'll walk."
To be left to her and her cordial seemed to me something like being left to the poisoner and her bowl. When M. Paul answered deeply, harshly, and briefly "Laissez-moi!" in the grim sound I felt a music strange, strong, but life-giving. "Laissez-moi!" he repeated, his nostrils opening, and his facial muscles all quivering as he spoke. "But this will never do," said Madame, with sternness.
Her lips were quivering; he could see her struggle for self-control, but he could not see it unmoved. "Poor child!" he said, putting out his hand toward her. "Don't take my hand; they're all looking," she begged. He forbore, and they remained silent and motionless a little while, before she had recovered herself sufficiently to speak again.
"Master Stokton, in one word, then, he never goes far wrong who can run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Good-day to you, I have business elsewhere." So saying, Nicholas rather hastily shook off the mercer's quivering fingers, and hastened out of the hall.
Unable to endure the scene Susan left them and joined a woman whom she found sewing in the shade of a wagon. The woman seemed unmoved, chatting as she stitched on the happenings of the journey and the accident that had caused the delay. Here presently David joined them, his face pallid, his lips loose and quivering. Nothing could be done with the mother.
Whether I aimed badly, or the refraction of the water was not allowed for, I cannot say, but there was no result. I only saw a quivering of the surface and the fish was off into the river. The same result for a dozen more tries, and then Pomp said protestingly "I nebber tink dat ob any good." "But it is good if I could strike one," I said, testily. "Um on'y tummle off 'gain, Mass' George."
With eager, trembling fingers, she untied the string which held down the cover of her basket, and, rummaging within, brought to light a withered bouquet of the very commonest and, perhaps, the very homeliest flowers that grew, if there are any homely flowers. "There," she said, holding it tenderly, and speaking with quivering lip and trembling voice.
She felt as if he had struck her, and it goaded her to a fiercer cruelty. "You knew he would never come back!" she declared her voice quivering uncontrollably with the passion that shook her. "You you never meant him to come back!" He opened his eyes wide for a single instant, and she fancied that she had touched him. It was the first time in her memory that she had ever seen them fully.
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