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Albeit well accustomed to gaze critically upon the tokens of mortal agony, Tom felt an unusual shudder of horror and repugnance as he glanced on the countenance, so disfigured and contorted that there was no chance of recognition, and turned his attention to the clothes, which lay in a heap on the floor.
"No one wants you to," the other responded; "you may marry for love if you like; but it is not impossible to love a rich man, is it, Helen?" "But, Aunt Polly," said Helen, "I am satisfied as I am now. I do not want to marry anybody. The very idea makes me shudder." "I am not in the least anxious that you should," was the answer. "You are young, and you may choose your own time.
So saying, she put down on the table a sheet of paper half burnt and half covered with blood, which sent a shudder through the spectators genuine with some of them, mere affectation with many others. Before this letter was read, she finished her deposition, and ended it with some assertions which perplexed me considerably; for I could no longer distinguish the boundary between truth and perfidy.
Then there was another dreadful pause, broken at length by the elder of the group. "I've a revelation to make, neighbor, that is of such a nature that I shudder to speak upon the subject, and which closely concerns more than one person in this immediate vicinity."
"My duty as your guardian forces me to deal plainly with you. With whom have you arranged this disgraceful clandestine correspondence?" Her gaze swept quite past him, ascended to the pitying brown eyes in her mother's portrait; and though she grew white as her Undine vesture, and he saw her shudder, her voice was unshaken. "I cannot tell you."
The morning emptiness of the street was well done, but the blood was too brilliantly red. "It's very unpleasant," said Ellen, with a shudder. "But it's true." Morten came home from town with a big letter which he handed to Pelle, saying: "Here's news for you from Brun." Pelle went into the house to read it undisturbed, and a little while after came out again.
And she discovered a face of perfect beauty. Black and very regular eyes gave life to it; but in their absence one might have thought her features were those of a phantom, she was so pale. Her lips were blue and quivering; and a strong shudder made her teeth chatter. "You are ill, my sister," said the minister, touched, taking her hand, which he felt to be burning hot.
On hearing my opinion, a quick, slight shudder ran through him from head to foot like a lightning flash; I fancied I could see him turn pale under his black velvet mask. "'The waiting-woman took advantage of a moment when he was bending in despair over the dying woman, who had turned blue, to point to some glasses of lemonade standing on a table, at the same time shaking her head negatively.
A shudder crept through the body of the cardinal, who did not shudder readily. But all at once, as if undergoing the influence of an unspoken thought, the countenance of the cardinal, till then gloomy, cleared up by degrees, and recovered perfect serenity.
Of course Jack could only make the same answer, and when they explained, it was learned that the carriage contained a lady and small child so three lives have been lost from people not doing their duty in keeping folks out of danger." "Does the mother of Ben know anything about this?" I asked, with a shudder at the thought of her terrible grief.
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