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She felt as if love itself had been defiled by the coarse, rough hands that had been meddling with it; so to her sister's soothing address Susan made no answer, only to cry and sob still more bitterly than before. Miss Silence, if she had a great stout heart, had no less a kind one, and seeing Susan take the matter so bitterly to heart, she began gradually to subside.
"I felt of my pocket after I got back to school yesterday, after we'd been up to the old Loomis house, and I couldn't find the ring." "My!" said Matilda. Comfort gave a stifled sob. Matilda turned short around with a jerk. "Le'ss go up that road and hunt again," said she; "there's plenty of time before the bell rings. Come along, Comfort Pease."
"It has taken you a long time to come to that conclusion," she responded. "I hoped until the end even after I knew that hope was folly and that I was a fool to cling to it. I always meant to come back to you when I got the chance, but not like this not like this." At the pain in his eyes the girl caught her breath with a sob that shook her from head to foot.
Well, mebbe, Beckie Frankenstein, I'm thinking what a beautiful world this is, and what a fine time you and me has," and the strange creature broke into a laugh that was more terrible than a sob. "Ah, there you go again, Miriam! What's eatin' you to-day?" cried the foreman, as he came along to inspect the work; and seeing Miriam undoing my blunders, asked, "Who did that?"
The thoughts of my mind and the emotions of my heart passed down to the quivering chords and trembled into life and sound. I do not know how long I had been playing when suddenly I heard a sob behind me. I started and turned. It was Philips.
"You see me here, sir," said she, "a poor, wretched, degraded creature: I was not always thus. There was not a happier heart in wide Scotland than mine was, ten years ago. But my husband, sir, was a Social Man!" A convulsive sob checked her words her head sank back on the pillow her lower jaw fell the death-rattle sounded in her throat and in a few moments the unfortunate woman expired.
Stewart; both were looking meditatively into the fire, which gave the only light in the room, and she was holding his hand. My heart melted for a second as this pretty, home-like picture met my eyes, and a sob came into my throat at the thought that I was no longer a part of this dear home-circle. Then sulkiness rose to the top again.
I send you to school to study, and you're not to touch any but your school-books." "May I bring it home?" she faltered. "Bring it home, indeed! No, miss. I guess you can find enough to do at home. Not another word more, or you will stay at home for good." The child bent over her slate; but tears would come, and at last a sob burst forth. "Clear out to bed, Rachel," said her father angrily.
Nur-el-Din wiped her eyes on a tiny lace handkerchief, but continued to sob and shudder at intervals. "Marie, my maid," she said in French in a broken voice, "joined me here to-day. She has told me of this dreadful murder!" Desmond stiffened to attention.
My hope was to find her here," and he was choked by a great strangling sob, which his youthful manhood sought to restrain. Betty perceived that he was far from being recovered from the injury he had suffered, and did her best to restrain her own and her father's anxiety till she had persuaded him to swallow some of the excellent coffee which Nannerl always made at sight of a guest.
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