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"Kiss me, Jeanne," repeated Helene. But her voice also seemed strange; in Jeanne's ears it sounded louder. Her old heartache came upon her once more, as when an injury had been done her; and unnerved by the presence of what was unknown and horrible to her, divining, however, that she was breathing an atmosphere of falsehood, she burst into sobs. "No, no, I entreat you!
The ponies were hard held, but notwithstanding this my horse fell back gradually in the race, and the hammering of the hoofs in front grew fainter. The breath of the runner at my stirrup came in great sobs. He was suffocating, but he struggled on a little longer. Then he threw up his hand and gasped: "I am done. Go on, Marcel. You deserve to escape. Don't desert the girl."
"Anyway, we're alone together again for a bit, Sally," he croaked. The woman checked her sobs to answer. "Yes, honey," she replied. Goodwin waited till the tapping of the crutch had receded. "So they've quit him at last," he reflected. "And" he stepped forth from his hiding place briskly "they've left the door open. Now for Tom Mowbray!" Once within the door he was no longer careful to be silent.
Do you not see my tears which I in vain strive against You hear unmoved my voice broken by sobs Feel how my hand trembles: my whole heart is in the words I speak and you must not endeavour to silence me by mere words barren of meaning: the agony of my doubt hurries me on, and you must reply. I beseech you; by your former love for me now lost, I adjure you to answer that one question.
With these terms Sir Walter Manny returned to Sir John of Vienne. The governor left the battlements, and proceeding to the market-place ordered the bell to be rung. The famished and despairing citizens gathered a haggard crowd to hear their doom. A silence followed the narration of the hard conditions of surrender by the governor, and sobs and cries alone broke the silence which succeeded.
Piragoff was out of my hands, and what I had seen only made it more imperative that I should prevent further bloodshed. "As, once more, I softly opened the slide, the voices of the miserable wretches within came to me in a strange and unpleasant mixture of curses, blasphemies and hysterical sobs.
We are all liable to mistakes; surely you can pardon him if " "Not while I'm above ground," shrieked the old woman. She dropped her bag, then picked it up awkwardly, and started to leave by a door which opened into another room. She burst into hysterical weeping when Mrs. Floyd caught her arm to detain her. "Not while I'm alive an' have my senses," she went on, in sobs and piping tones.
Then there came dimly to her recollection some Bible words about bringing a father's gray hairs down with sorrow to the grave. "Was her misconduct killing her father?" She burst into an agony of sobs and tears at the thought. He lifted his head, and looked at her gravely, and with mingled sternness and compassion.
The adherents of Hasse and Metastasio no longer dared to raise their voices in opposition to the public verdict. In this state of excitement the third act began. With increasing delight, the audience listened. When Eurydice, condemned to return to the infernal regions, sang her plaintive aria, sobs were heard throughout the theatre, and murmurs of applause were audible during the whole scene.
Oh! what a life to bring before the Judge! And he covered his face, but his father heard long-drawn sobs. 'Compose yourself, my dear boy, he exclaimed, exceedingly grieved and perplexed. 'You know there is no cause to despond; and even even if there were, you have no reason to distress yourself.
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