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Do you think you're the Queen of Sheba?" The girl shrank back into the shadows at the edge of the room, and, as young Edwardes glanced that way, he heard a muffled sob and knew that she had fled up the stairs in chagrin, a pitiful little would-be princess whose dream splendor had been shattered with a reprimand.
Sylvia went out again. The men heard the rattle of dishes. Horace rose with a heavy sigh, which was almost a sob, and went out by the hall door, and Henry heard his retreating steps on the stair. He frowned deeply as he sat by the window. He, too, was bearing in some measure the burden of which he had spoken.
It ain't fit for her to be left alone with Allen, and there's a mess of little things for doing. I want those cows milked dry, and catch in those little Dominicker chickens before that old gander eats them up." David was about to protest, to sob out a passionate refusal, when a glimpse of his father's expression silenced him. He realized that the slightest argument would be worse than futile.
"How can you have the courage to speak of such things! The little consideration! If your memory of the past is so faithful so so unforgetting, I dare say you can remember only too well that I once " "You must be quiet now," said Fan, stopping her friend's mouth with her hand for the second time, and with a strange little laugh that was half sob.
At last he heard her stifle a sob and looked round. Annette was walking aft toward the cabin with slow, dragging steps. "My dear Annette!" cried Mrs. Livingstone and Senator Fairclothe together as they saw her face, but she pushed past them and disappeared in the cabin. "Sir!" began the Senator indignantly. "May I ask you for an explanation?"
And then for a long time nothing was heard in the hut but the winter without, the growls and mutterings of the bulldog in his sleep by the stove, and a sob now and then from the dwarf in the garret. The healing silence of a common love in the presence of a common grief settled upon the strangely matched couple.
But the fact was that not till this very moment had he ever known what a pigeon was. A good many discoveries of a similar kind have to be made by most of us. Once more it opened its eyes then closed them again, and its throbbing ceased. Curdie gave a sob: its last look reminded him of the princess he did not know why.
"Isn't it a thousand pities that Colonel Duxbury couldn't have held on to his shares just a little longer?" "Yes; he is an old man and a broken one, now." There was a sob in her voice, or he thought there was. But it was only the great heart of compassion that missed no object of pity.
"She's in the library, and we can't find out what is the matter." "Wha-a-at! Joey?" says I. It's a fact, though. I finds Joey slumped on a couch with her shoulders heavin'. She's doin' the sob act genuine and earnest. "Well, well!" says I. "Why the big weeps?" She looks up and sees who it is. "Torchy!" says she between sobs. "Dud-don't tell him. Please!" "Tell who?" says I.
"I've got you, Scottie," he said, "and so help me heaven, you're the first man that I've wanted to kill." It would have taken a man of supernerve to outface that situation. And the nerve of Scottie cracked. He began to whisper with a horrible break and sob in his breath: "Andy Andy, gimme a chance. I'm not fit to go this way. Andy, remember " "I'm going to give you a chance.
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