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I stole as close to him as I could and peered at him through my binocular, while he returned the compliment by peering at me, and then warily ventured to rehearse his little tune. The least movement on my part would startle him, cause him to flit to another perch and crane out his neck to glare at me questioningly with wild, dilated eyes, uncertain whether I was to be trusted or not.
"I beg your pardon; I trust that I did not startle you." "Not at all," said Nora, with dignity. But she did not turn round. "If you are looking for the gate into the grounds," he resumed, with great considerateness of manner, "you will find it about twenty yards further to your left. Can I have the pleasure of showing you the way?" "No, thank you," said Miss Nora, very ungraciously.
Are there not writers who, with all the vehemence of genius, by adopting one principle can make all things shrink into the pigmy form of ridicule, or by adopting another principle startle us by the gigantic monsters of their own exaggerated imagination?
So, despite all her haughtiness and disdain, did these words startle the lofty Prophetess, that she remained gazing into space long after that fearful apparition had vanished, and up from the grass, which those obscene steps had profaned, sprang the lark carolling.
Still, however, the King was careful not to betray to the young lady herself the peculiar feeling with which she had inspired him, but treated her with a kindness which was almost paternal, alluding without any apparent reluctance to her betrothal to Bassompierre, and assuring her that she should be as dear to him as a daughter, and that during the tour of duty of her husband, as First Lord of the Bedchamber, she should have a suite of apartments appropriated to her use in the Louvre; but in a few days, when he had accustomed her to converse freely with him upon the subject, Henry put a leading question which must, after all these gracious promises, have tended to startle Mademoiselle de Montmorency, by demanding to know if she personally desired the marriage, as, should it be otherwise, she need only confess the truth with frankness, when he would break off the match, and procure for her an alliance more to her taste; adding that he was even willing to bestow her hand upon his own nephew the Prince de Condé.
Presently, dreams and sleep and the sullen hush of the night were startled by a ringing report, and cloven by such a long, wild, agonizing shriek! Then we heard ten steps from the stage "Kill him! Kill him like a dog!" "I'm being murdered! Will no man lend me a pistol?" "Look out! head him off! head him off!" What a startle it was!
He clutched my arm with an earnestness to startle me. "You must not leave England now," he said. "And why?" "Because she will marry Chartersea if you do. And take my oath upon it, you alone can save her from that." "Nonsense!" I exclaimed, but my breath caught sharply. "Listen, Richard. Mr.
This he said, thinking that Alan would be pleased; but the Highlandman's vanity was ready to startle at a less matter than that. "Why, sir," says he stiffly, "I would say it mattered the less as we are met here for a particular end, to see justice done to Mr. Balfour; and by what I can see, not very likely to have much else in common.
I'm not so hot and hasty and passionate as you, and oh, I'm not half, nor a quarter, so clever, but still, I do know how you feel; I Polly, you startle me." "Only you don't hate me at this moment," said Polly. "And I don't I hate you, just! There, you can say anything after that. I know I'm a wretch I know I'm hopeless.
For all you know he may be come too." The words appeared to startle Mrs. Roy; she looked up, and he saw that her face had gone white with terror. "Why! what does ail you?" cried he, in wonder. "Be you took crazy?" "I don't want him to come home," she replied in an awe-struck whisper. "Roy, I don't want him to." "You don't want to be anything but a idiot," returned Roy, with supreme contempt.
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