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But when he spoke of diphtheria I couldn't help it and thought of my little chaps. I have already seen that dreadful thing come and sweep little lives away, just in a day or two. It took the one we buried on the other side of the cove, and we saw it suffocating, helpless to aid. And that's why I ran out, terror-stricken. But I hear that you held the baby for him.
With the life about her pressing in too close there was something freeing and saving in that glimpse of herself as part of all the life there had ever been. Because the crowds had seemed the all were suffocating her something in that vastness of vision was as fresh air after a stifling room.
She hugged them in a manner somewhat suffocating to modest men, but heroism must be brought to bear upon these excesses of maternal admiration; modesty, too, when it accepts the place of honour at a public banquet, should not protest overmuch. To be just, the earliest arrivals, which were such as reached the shores of Albion before her war was at an end, did cordially reciprocate the hug.
'As I have told you why you must not follow me, and these sounds admonish me that my time flies fast, tell me how you found poor Flora. Waverley, with a voice interrupted by suffocating sensations, gave some account of the state of her mind. 'Poor Flora! answered the Chief, 'she could have borne her own sentence of death, but not mine.
"Sir," I replied, "if the Salamanders are really as you say, this one honours me very much, and I am truly obliged to her. But, to say the truth, I have rather guessed than seen her, and this first encounter has only awakened my curiosity without giving me full satisfaction." Unable to speak at his ease, my good teacher was suffocating.
There sprang to Hodder's mind a sentence in a book he had recently read: "Our slums became filled with sick who need never have been sick; with derelicts who need never have been abandoned." Suddenly, out of the suffocating stillness of the afternoon a woman's voice was heard singing a concert-hall air, accompanied by a piano played with vigour and abandon.
From corpses that lay rotting in the houses and from corpses that were only half-buried in the earth, there was engendered a suffocating stench which mingled with the stagnant air of the streets and attracted swarms and clouds of ravens and crows until the walls and roofs were black with them.
Do not allow him to defeat my plans by any outbreak." This caution was not unnecessary. Maurice was terribly agitated; he could not see, he felt that he was suffocating, that he was losing his reason. "Where is the self-control you promised me?" murmured the priest. But no one observed the young man's condition. The attention was rapt, breathless.
A little later in the day Dorcas Knight came again and rapped at the door. "Ee hee! Eeh hee! Ee hee!" sobbed Cap. "Miss Day, your cousin, Craven Le Noir, wishes to speak with you alone." "Ee hee! Ee hee! Ee hee! I cannot see him!" sobbed Cap, in a low and suffocating voice.
It was in vain that Henriette darted forward to seize them and throw them behind a chair. Madame Delaherche stood glaring for some seconds at the spot where they had been with an expression on her face as if she were slowly suffocating. Then her glance wandered involuntarily from object to object in the room, stopping finally at the great red-curtained bed, the coverings thrown back in disorder.
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