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Coello tried to release himself from his daughter, to confront the passionately excited man, but she held him back, and with a pale face and trembling voice, but proud and resolute manner, answered: "No one has trifled with you, I least of all; my love has been earnest, sacred earnest." "Earnest!" interrupted Ulrich, with cutting irony.
Are you sure this sister of yours in the house, on your nerves day and night, with this blind narrow motherhood, this motherhood which frightens you isn't frightening you too much?" "No a little but not too much." Her deep sweet voice was trembling. "You're the one who frightens me. If you only knew! When you come like this with all you've done for me back of you " "Deborah! Don't be a fool!"
Judith allowed herself to be supported to a seat, swallowed a mouthful of the water that the Delaware offered her in a gourd, and, after a violent fit of trembling that seemed ready to shake her fine frame to dissolution, she burst into tears.
Doubtless they were waiting for his body to reappear, as his action, half fall, half spring, and the roaring of the rifles had been so close together that they seemed a blended movement. He was trembling all over from intense nervous exertion and excitement, but his mind steadied enough for him to observe the soldiers.
He awoke, suffocating, and with his teeth chattering; and he went on trembling long after he was awake; he could not be rid of his agony. The roam in which he slept was a hole without door or windows; an old curtain hung up by a curtain-rod over the entrance was all that separated it from the room of his father and mother. The thick air stifled him.
The farmer started to his feet, and stood gazing in the direction from which the cry had come. "It's only a stray dog howling," said Brent. Reinfelter turned toward his wife, and the moonlight showed that his face was white with terror. "De warnoong!" he said, in a low voice. "D'r geishter-shray foon de bairga!" The woman covered her face with her hands, and began trembling and sobbing.
With a voice trembling with emotion, she said, 'Doctor Cleaveland, I have called to entreat you to join me in praying that the wind may change. He looked at her in silent amazement.
It was the pain in their own hearts, and the awful chasm that his holy vows had put between them. They stood so only an instant. He was trembling in the extort to master himself, and in a second she felt the hot blood rising to her face. Her woman's wit was the first to break the hopeless situation. She turned, and hailed a passing car. "I cannot walk any farther. Good-night." And she was gone.
Then a dark object seemed to fall from the car, the lightened balloon shot upward, the object struck the roof of the cathedral there was a fearful explosion, a trembling of the earth as if an angry volcano were beneath, and the crash of falling buildings followed.
I looked up at the window, down at the floor, down through the winding way of stair, where once I had trembling gone, and, with a farewell softly spoken, I left my churchyard tower with open door and key in the lock. Henceforth it was not mine. I left it with the hope that some other loving soul would take up my devotion, and wait and watch as I had done.
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