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At a certain part of the lake, the boatmen, without any visible cause, rested on their oars. On Edward asking them why they did not pull, he received this touching answer: "Sure, your honour would not have us disturb Ned Macarthy's grave!" "Then a boatman was drowned here, I suppose?" said Edward. "Yes, your honour."
Whether she was Spanish or Italian, it was easy to imagine her a person who did not always live in London lodgings, even of the better class. "If you please," she answered him. "It is very kind of you. You are very strong, I see. But I am glad to have only a few steps to go." She rested on his shoulder as well as on her umbrella, but it was plain that every movement gave her intense pain.
Her eye rested on the cap which had fallen from her head and lay near her on the grass. She pointed with trembling finger to the crown, and said softly, "Recognize you that sign, my lord?" "I recognize it, my lady; but in this hour, I no longer shrink back at it. There are moments in which life is at its crowning point, and when one heeds not the abyss that threatens close beneath.
Then he raised himself on his elbow, Barbara drawing quickly away, and so rested an instant, regarding me still. He drew himself up into a sitting posture, and seemed as though he would rise to his feet. I raised the pistol and pointed it at him. "No higher, if you please," said I. "It's a matter of danger to walk about in so small a boat, and you came near to upsetting us before."
"My poor child!" said Mrs. Arnott, putting her arm round her niece's waist. Ethel rested her head on her shoulder. "Aunt Flora! Aunt Flora! If any words could tell what Margaret has been ever since we were left. Oh, don't make me talk or think of ourselves without her. It is wrong to wish. And when you see her, that dear face of hers will make you happy in the present.
Six thousand Thebans are said to have been slain, and thirty thousand were made prisoners. The doom of the conquered city was referred to the allies, who decreed her destruction. The grounds of the verdict bear the impress of a tyrannical hypocrisy. They rested on the conduct of the Thebans during the Persian war, on their treatment of Plataea, and on their enmity to Athens.
All day Ashurst rested his knee, in a green-painted wooden chair on the patch of grass by the yew-tree porch, where the sunlight distilled the scent of stocks and gillyflowers, and a ghost of scent from the flowering-currant bushes. Beatifically he smoked, dreamed, watched.
So Rosalie found it; the moment her eyes rested on Toby's face and on Toby's bit of crape, she burst into a flood of tears, and was able to weep out the intenseness of her sorrow.
"I'll go with you," the girl said, vivid lips parted in anticipation. "No, you go home. This is a man's job. Soon as I find out anything I'll let you know." "You'll come, no matter what time o' night it is," she pleaded. "Yes," he promised. Her firm little hand rested a moment in his brown palm. "I'm depending on you," she murmured in a whisper lifted to a low wail by a stress of emotion.
He was dropping pebbles from his full hand into the water, to give movement to the tiny boats. Sigurd stepped quietly behind him, and then said: "Why do you thus set these shells to sail?" The boy looked up in surprise, and his blue eyes rested for a long time upon the tall strange man. Then he answered: "Because, hersir, they are my warships, setting out upon a viking cruise."
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