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Had I been alone, I believe a species of pleasurable excitement would have been the prevailing feeling, but for my Louisa I did tremble very often; the scenes passing around us were to a gentle eye and feeling heart terrible indeed, and so suddenly they had come upon us, we had no time to attempt retreat to a place of greater safety.
And even now that I am older they have said the same. But how could I ever forget you, and the hours that were the confession and communion of my whole life? How could I forget those evenings when I sat at your feet and looked into your eyes? Olof, I can feel it all still, and tremble at the thought of it. "You must forgive me all this.
To see the proud poise of sweet Prue's averted head, and the tender look in her eyes when George is near, and the surge of the mighty chest and the tremble of the strong man's hand at the sound of her light footfall, is more enthralling than any written romance, old or new.
Fear and tremble, for the hour of wrath and woe is at hand!" The energy and eloquence with which he spoke sent a strange thrill of terror through the crowd. The governor, alone insensible to fear, shouted from his saddle: "Tremble for yourself, Isaac! for, by the rood! if you dare question the justice of the Holy Office, you shall share the fate of yonder prisoner."
In that your sister was better, for she liked me much more than C C , and you do not like me as well as the sweetheart you left behind you at the convent." "Certainly not, for with you I should violate my own chastity and expose myself to consequences I tremble to think of." "You do not love me, then?" "What are you saying? I adore you, and I am very sorry you are not a woman."
She turned her face away, but he saw her chin tremble. There was a moment's silence; then the doctor said with curious harshness. "Well, anyhow, you know what it means to have owned your own." "Better not have known!" "I can't feel that. But perhaps I don't understand." "You don't understand."
It was so pretty, people did not tire of looking, till Jack's lame leg began to tremble, and he whispered: "Drop her or I shall pitch."
If she appeared before me as she did the last time I met her; if, in the middle of the dark, I saw the shining radiance of her face, the swaying of her figure, traced in silken lines, and her little sister's hand in hers, I should tremble. But that does not happen.
"You!" she just breathed; and he saw that she was beginning to tremble. His wooing had been harsh and clumsy he was afraid it had offended her, and his hand trembled too as it sought hers. "I only thought it would be a dull business to most women and I'm tied to it for life...but I thought...I've seen so often how you pity suffering...how you long to relieve it...."
The Frenchman laughed derisively. "Why, my little brave," he cried, "what a dust-filled-eyed one you think me. Do I not know that you have been in a tremble ever since?" "No, you don't," said Walters, sharply. "I'm sure I've done everything I can." "My faith, yes; we will say it is so," said Jarette, with another sneering laugh.
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