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Jane turned a little aside, and picked off some small leaves, nervously. He saw the muslin on her chest lift quiveringly. "Oh, little Jane!" he said in a big, shaky whisper. The following eyes incontinently brimmed over. Some shining drops fell on the softness of the blue muslin. "Oh, Tommy," giving up, "it's no use talking at all."
Yet, as befitted a person in his position, he had a splendid set of nerves. And almost at once he recovered partial control over himself. "I I don't know how it happened," he faltered, his rich contralto voice shaky with the ground-swells of his recent shock. "It began when I was sitting on the steps, sewing. This dog came past. He growled at me so threateningly that I came indoors.
It's fun for a girl to get married. But I've all the ordeals to go through, facing the Registrar, buying the ring " "Well, I'll do it," she said resignedly, "if you're frightened." But as they passed the first jeweller's shop he dived in suddenly without speaking to her. After a few minutes he emerged, his face flushed and damp, his hand shaky. "Look here, come up a side way somewhere, old thing!
"And that's true," said a harsh voice, and there entered the cabin one of the buccaneers a big bottle-nosed fellow, with a face of purple hue. "And how are ye the noo, Mister?" "Mighty shaky!" I said. "What is wrong with me?" "A bit wound in the dexter femur," he said, "within a hair's breadth like o' your femoral artery and kingdom come. "But ye'll do fine," he added, feeling my pulse.
McMurdo had laid down the paper, and was lighting his pipe with a hand which was shaky from the excesses of the previous evening, when there was a knock outside, and his landlady brought to him a note which had just been handed in by a lad. It was unsigned, and ran thus: I should wish to speak to you, but would rather not do so in your house. You will find me beside the flagstaff upon Miller Hill.
Some of the officers expostulated with him on the hazard of crossing the Atlantic in so shaky a trim. He only got red in the face, and said that he had crossed the herring-pond hundreds of times in crafts not half so seaworthy. He was like the Froggy who would a wooing go, Whether his mother would let him or no.
That grand old man, with the venerable, shaky head, whose white, silky hair seemed to shed blessings and benedictions, was M. Dussant du Fosse, a philanthropist by profession, honorary president of all charitable works; senator, of course, since he was one of France's peers, and who in a few years after the Prussians had left, and the battles were over, would sink into suspicious affairs and end in the police courts.
"No, dearie," she answered as they all stepped out briskly along the rather shaky suspension bridge connecting the pier with the shore, which oscillated under their feet in a way that made Mrs Gilmour anxious to get off it as quickly as she could to firm ground. "Rover is a clever fellow, sure!"
The widow put in a good word for me, but that warn't going to keep off the bad luck, I knowed that well enough. I started out, after breakfast, feeling worried and shaky, and wondering where it was going to fall on me, and what it was going to be.
Had she always had that discreet significant air, as if there were something she could talk about but didn't mean to not on any account? Or was there something going on here at home that awaited breathlessly awaited discovery? Whatever it was, when Paula turned upon her it went, laughably; only it would have been a pretty shaky sort of laugh.
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