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It would send him straight about to the window he had left open, and by that window, be long ladder and dangling rope as absent as they would, he saw himself uncontrollably insanely fatally take his way to the street. The hideous chance of this he at least could avert; but he could only avert it by recoiling in time from assurance.
In the ardor of his penitence he discovered himself holding her hand; she no longer seemed to be recoiling; and Heaven knows what might have happened next if an ostentatious sound of whistling had not come to their rescue. "Bot you vill forgive?" he whispered, as they sprang up from their shady seat. "Ye-es," she answered, just as the serene glance of Count Bunker fell humorously upon them.
They saw her again in the open window, where, looking at them, she had paused producing thus, on Aunt Maud's part, almost too impressive a "Hush!" Mrs. Lowder indeed, without loss of time, smothered any danger in a sweeping retreat with Susie; but Milly's words to her, just uttered, about dealing with her niece directly, struck our young woman as already recoiling on herself.
Still, these human barriers staggered under the pressure of the unfortunate creatures who hungered for life, who wished to touch, to kiss Jesus; and, oscillating and recoiling, the bearers were at last thrust against the canopy they were defending, and the canopy itself began swaying among the crowd, ever in danger of being swept away like some holy bark in peril of being wrecked.
Betty loves scars, you see, and she doesn't mind even wounds real wounds. She wanted to go into the hospitals, but I came away and mamma wouldn't let her." "For God's sake, don't let her," said Dan, with a shudder, his Southern instincts recoiling from the thought of service for the woman he loved. "There are a plenty of them in the hospitals and it's no place for Betty, anyway."
And Artois, still recoiling secretly from that which might possibly have become a folly but could never have been anything more, had told Vere plainly and almost sternly that she must go to her literary path unaided, unadvised by him. "I was glad to advise you at the beginning, Vere," he had said, finally; "but now I must leave you to yourself to work out your own salvation. You have talent.
Next time you want fuel come to the house and ask for coals, and let my gates alone. I suppose you can enjoy a fire without stealing the combustibles. Stow pay me for my gate by telling me something I want to know." "And a kind gentleman too, sir; blessings." "What is the hemlock good for?" "The hemlock, kind gentleman? For the evil, sir, to be sure." "Scrofulous ulcers!" he exclaimed, recoiling.
Old Leopold, quick as thought, noticing the thing, hurls cavalry on these victorious down-plunging grenadiers; slashes them asunder, into mere recoiling whirlpools of ruin; so that "few of them got back unwounded;" and the Prussians storming in along with them, aided by ever new Prussians, from beyond the Tschonengrund even, the place was at length carried; and the Saxon battle became hopeless.
'If you flung a man's body down there, where would it be to-morrow morning? said Monks, swinging the lantern to and fro in the dark well. 'Twelve miles down the river, and cut to pieces besides, replied Bumble, recoiling at the thought.
These choice delights were the old by-road's peculiar possession, and through a wild maze of beauty and fragrance it strayed on with a careless awkwardness, getting more and more involved in tangles of green, till at last, recoiling abruptly as it were upon its own steps, it stopped short at the entrance to a cleared space in front of a farmyard.
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