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And the man recoiled before the apparition he retreated to his bed and sank down upon it, knowing well that the little one had entered the room, and that she now was standing behind the curtain which presently moved. And until daybreak, he kept staring at this curtain, with a fixed glance, ever waiting to see his victim depart.
Compelled thereto against the natural impulse of the Celtic nature, which is open and confiding, therefore in the reaction cunning and suspicious, he had practised reticence so long, that he now recoiled from a breach of the habit which had become a second, false nature.
This translation of a favourite romance into terms of the servants' hall chilled Maud like a cold shower. She recoiled from it. "Wouldn't you like to get a good education, Albert," she said perseveringly, "and become a great poet and write wonderful poems?" Albert considered the point, and shook his head. "No, m'lady." It was discouraging. But Maud was a girl of pluck.
'Ah, she said, 'I remember now.... When I was four or five years odd.... A tank, and women undressing.... And I was bathed too, and an old man dipped my head under the water three times.... I have forgotten what it all meant it was so long ago. I wore a white dress, I know, afterwards. Philammon recoiled with a groan. 'Unhappy child! May God have mercy on you! 'Will He not forgive me, then?
He followed the thrown glass with his clenched fist. Dan stood perfectly still and watched the blow coming. His eyes were wide and wondering, like those of a child. The iron-hard hand struck him full on the mouth, fairly lifted him from his feet, and flung him against the wall with such violence that he recoiled again and fell forward onto his knees.
But the result alone decided men's judgment. Trusting to the general Pompeius, the constitutional party had broken with Caesar; the pernicious consequences of this breach recoiled upon the general Pompeius; and, though owing to the notorious military incapacity of all the other chiefs no attempt was made to change the supreme command yet confidence at any rate in the commander-in-chief was paralyzed.
She fancies him no worse than he has been, and has got over it. She WOULDN'T think else. She be a good daughter to him that she be!" We all sat silent; and then John said, in a low voice "Mrs. Tod, she ought to be told and you would be the best person to tell her." But the soft-hearted landlady recoiled from the task. "If Tod were at home now he that is so full o' wisdom learnt in 'the kirk' "
This thought crossing his imagination, immediately made the truth flash upon him, and, as if instinctively, he went up to the bed and pulled down the clothes, when he recoiled back with horror at uncovering the face of his mother, now of a livid blue and in the last stage of putrefaction.
Madame Pierson soon arrived, preceding the servant; she descended rapidly, and did not see me in the darkness; I stepped up to her and touched her arm. She recoiled with terror and cried out: "What do you wish of me?" Her voice trembled so painfully and, when the servant appeared with a light, her face was so pale, that I did not know what to think.
He then gave up his questionings and rushed at the door. But an elephant flinging himself against those sturdy oaken boards and posts could not force his way; and Roland recoiled with a feeling of numb despair in his heart. Then with one of his bed-posts he began to pound upon the door, calling upon Nancy and The Lifter to come to his rescue.
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