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But she said no word. Only as he took it gravely from her, she glanced up as though compelled, and for a single instant sheer panic looked at him out of her eyes. "My dear," he said, "will you attend to the matter to-morrow?" But still she was silent, quiveringly, piteously silent. The colour had gone out of her face now; she was as white as the dress she wore. "You will?" he said gently.
Then came the day when a great joy came into Stub's life his master spoke to him. It was not the old fond greeting, to be sure. It was a command, and a sharp one; but in Stub's opinion it was a vast improvement on the snarling oaths or wordless glowerings which had been his portion for the past weeks, and he responded to it with every sense and muscle quiveringly alert.
But, Ellen Jorth screamed piercingly and snatched her rifle from its resting place and, cocking it, she held it forward and low. Her scream and his uttered name stiffened him. "Y'u will spare Jean Isbel!" she rang out. "Drop that gun-drop it!" "Shore, Ellen.... Easy now. Remember your temper.... I'll let Isbel off," he panted, huskily, and all his body sank quiveringly to a crouch.
There would be plenty of eggs then, and in a few weeks squabs quiveringly, helplessly fat. It was a good tree, for it gave good tidings, and it centralised the shelter of the Isle. Its blooms were delightfully, dashingly red, and they lasted long that is, if the camp the soil rectified by sun and rain happened to be in residence, for then the sulphur-crested cockatoos would be scared.
The quiet was complete, and the air so still, that a yellow leaf dropping here and there from the churchyard elms just beginning to turn fell quiveringly in a straight path to the earth.
Overhead, a restful sky of misty blue flecked with wisps of white cloud, while each inconsequent turn of the narrow twisting road revealed a sudden glimpse of distant purple hills, or a small friendly cottage built of cob and crowned with yellow thatch, or high-hedged fields of standing corn, deepening to gold and quiveringly still as the sea on a windless afternoon.
"You must have some low-heeled white shoes and short white skirts and a batting hat. They won't come to much," she added as if carelessly, going down to her bridge game on the veranda. But Maria Angelina's small hands clenched tightly at her sides in a panic out of all proportion to the idea. More expense, she was thinking quiveringly. More investment! Oh, she must not fail she dared not fail.
Carlotta uttered a gasp of dismay, blushed burning red, and shrank back to the door. There is no pretence about Carlotta. She was shocked to the roots of her being. "They are naked!" she said, quiveringly. "For heaven's sake, explain," said I to Mrs. McMurray, and I beat a hasty retreat to the promenade. When I returned, Carlotta had been soothed down.
Gordon's hands was beneath the table; as he was sitting next to his I saw what no one else did that the long, slender, sensitive fingers pressed themselves deeply, quiveringly, into the palm at my affirmation of his question. But except for that momentary grip there was no evidence of excitement in his demeanor as he turned to me. "I thought so," he said quietly.
Two wild dark eyes looked up to his, desperately afraid, seeking reassurance. He answered that look briefly with stern composure. "Be still! I shall save you if I can." The dancer's heart was beating in mad terror against his own, but at his words it seemed to grow a little calmer. Quiveringly the white lips spoke.
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