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And yet she did not want to talk about 'Arthur, as she had always called him, and there was a certain tremor and excitement in her mind about him. The idea of being prevented from seeing him was absurd intolerable. She was already devising ways and means of doing it. It was really not to be expected that filial obedience should reign at Mannering.
He called again, and this time Ledscha heard anguished yearning in his deep tones; but they seemed to have lost their influence over her, for her large dark eyes gazed at him so repellently and sternly that a cold tremor ran down his spine. Swinging himself from his horse, he ascended the steps of the temple, and in the most tender tones at his command exclaimed: "Ledscha!
Yet under a calm exterior he was conscious of a distinct tremor of excitement when her carriage drew up within a few feet of him, and obeying her mute but smiling command, he rose and offered his hand as she stepped out on to the path. "This," she remarked, resting her daintily gloved fingers for a moment in his, "is the beginning of a new order of things.
She blushed deeply on receiving it, and shook so much that the tremor of her small white hands gave evident proof of the agitation which it produced in her bosom. She read as follows: "Oh why is it that I cannot see you! or what has become of you? This absence is painful to me beyond the power of endurance.
He feared that he had been too precipitate, for she hid her face in her hands; but it was the intensity of thanksgiving; and though her whole frame was in a tremor, she flew rather than ran forward, never even seeing Louis's proffered arm.
"Oh, what a pity, I expect it will almost kill his wife, poor thing, I pity her from the bottom of my heart." "Why what's the matter Harry Richards? You look as white as a sheet, and you are all of a tremor." "I've just come from the coroner's inquest, had to be one of the witnesses. I am afraid it will go hard with Coots." "Why? What was the verdict of the jury?"
My surprise was so great that for a moment I was unable to utter a word. "'Monsieur de Saint-Herem, she said, without a tremor of agitation in her voice, 'you must forgive me for disturbing you, but I shall retain you a few moments only I am a widow and twenty-eight years of age; I had promised to marry the duke, and would probably have been foolish enough to keep my word it I had not met you.
It was the captain, and some new terror seemed to have gifted him with momentary strength. "Yes, here's Lucy," I answered, hoping that by following the fancy I might quiet him, for his face was damp with the clammy moisture, and his frame shaken with the nervous tremor that so often precedes death.
He seldom drank even wine, but this was a rare occasion. He then rose, and with equal slowness, and a tremor in his voice which rendered it impossible to imagine the presence of anything but seriousness, said, 'Robert, my son, let's drink the health of George Moray, Gentleman. Stand up.
The singularity of such a sound, in so very lonely a place, made him involuntarily start; but looking at the boy, and discovering, by the arch malicious expression of his countenance, that the urchin saw and enjoyed his slight tremor, he became convinced that the whole was a concerted stratagem, and determined to know by whom, or for what purpose, the trick was played off.
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