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After a time she sprang from the bed, lighted a candle at the rush light, and read John's letter in a tremor of dream-wrought fear. Then she aroused Jennie Faxton and asked: "When were you at Rutland?" "I spent yesterday and to-day there, mistress," answered Jennie. "Did you see a strange lady?" asked Dorothy. "Oh, yes, mistress, I did see her three or four times," answered Jennie.
The blood flushed Bertie's face a deep and burning scarlet; he started with an irrepressible tremor, like a man struck with a shot; he felt like one suddenly stabbed in the dark by a sure and a cruel hand.
I crouched there, listening for some moments to that fading sound, when it began to grow louder again. The man had turned about and was coming back. As he passed under the lamp on the opposite corner I thought I recognized the slim figure of Mr. Murmurtot. Suddenly I was startled by a noise in the room adjoining ours, and sprang to my feet in a tremor. Plague take my imagination!
What she had given him, she had had to sue him to take. But now that he had taken it, she knew herself a weak woman on his breast, and she realised with a happy tremor that he would make her no more apologies for his love, or for his story. Rather, he stood upon that dignity she herself had given him her lover, and the captain of her life!
He kissed her good-night without the least tremor, and she went to bed herself full of serene thankfulness. Nor did she forget how much she owed to the girl who was breaking her heart in the loneliness of Lapton. She wrote to Gabrielle that night. "I think it is all right," she said. "Heaven only knows what I owe you for your generosity ... what Arthur owes you."
There was not the slightest visible sign of tremor in the young woman; and Sir Luke's inner mind applauded her. "No fool! and a lady," he thought. "Let's see what Rachel will make of her." "Then you don't help him in the writing?" said Lady Dunstable, still with the same detached air. Doris laughed. "I don't know what Arthur would say if I proposed it.
You do not find the pitman, the dustman, or the bargee puling for bayonet exercise to make them hard, and if our nervous gentlemen were all serving the State in those capacities, they might even approach their addition sums in "Dreadnoughts" without a tremor. Besides, as Professor James added for a final inducement, the women would value them more highly.
I only know I've seen men look like that and talk like that before an engagement." Viola raised her head. Her voice came with the clear tremor of a bell: "And did they funk?" "They didn't run away, if that's what you mean. I daresay they felt like Jevons. I've felt like Jevons myself."
To visible being, with a gladsome cry Waking, life's tremor through me throbbing ran!" A strange, repulsive feline wail arose somewhere in the room. I started up on my elbow and stared about me, but could see nothing. Mr. Raven turned several leaves, and went on:
Forgive me!" he murmured, and there was a little tremor in his voice; "But can you not understand the possibility of a man loving a woman very much, and yet deceiving her for her good?" "It could never be for her good," said Gloria firmly; "It would not be for mine! No lie ever lasts!" Von Glauben looked at her with a sense of reverence and something like awe.
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