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A fairer face you would not see in a day's journey; her smooth skin, not too white, but of a rich creamy tint, eyes brown and inclined to be dreamy, her hair chestnut and wavy, a figure rather below the medium size, but with full, graceful lines, these, joined with a gentle nature and a certain tremulous sensibility, constituted a divinity that it was surely no sin to worship.
Drawing her curtains aside, the girl saw in the brightening dawn men pouring down the street, dressing as they went. They seemed half demented; they were yelling at one another, but she could not gather from their words whether it was the ice which was moving or the bridge. The bridge! That possibility set her to dressing with tremulous fingers, her heart sick with fear.
Had Joseph not been so blinded by indignation against his private secretary, he might have seen how one of the others raised his head and glanced furtively around; how his face was pale, and his lips were twitching; and how his hand was so tremulous that he was scarcely able to hold his pen. No one observed it. The other secretaries were writing; the emperor, in his wrath, saw nothing but Gunther.
These individuals told me in tremulous accents they had got a boat on a secret waterway behind the palace whence flight to the main river and so, far away inland, to another smaller but more peaceful city of their race would be quite practical; and joyfully hearing this news, I handed over to them the princess while I went to look for Hath. And the search was not long.
"Please attend to that," he said, and to the Girl: "Now we go on a journey. Doc, you and Molly take the corners of the rug we are on and slide us into the other room until you get this aired and freshened." In the living-room the Girl took one long look at the surroundings and suddenly relaxed. She cuddled against the Harvester and lifting a tremulous white hand, drew it across his unshaven cheek.
Eben had been brought up with a strict reverence for all religious matters. On the surface he might sometimes laugh at them, but the deeps troubled him whenever he did so. Indoors, Miriam touched her younger sister's shoulder and looked at her affectionately. "Won't you decide to-night, Mollie?" she asked, in a voice tremulous with emotion. Mollie crimsoned and turned her face away uncomfortably.
So retiring a nature as his, might never have harboured love, if the love bore the character of presumption; but that one so beautiful beyond his dreams as Madeline Lester, should deign to exercise towards him a tenderness, that might suffer him to hope, was a thought, that when he caught her eye unconsciously fixed upon him, and noted that her voice grew softer and more tremulous when she addressed him, forced itself upon his heart, and woke there a strange and irresistible emotion, which solitude and the brooding reflection that solitude produces a reflection so much more intense in proportion to the paucity of living images it dwells upon soon ripened into love.
Your hope, Christian man, should not be the tremulous thing that it often is, which expresses itself in phrases like 'Well! I do not know, but I tremblingly hope, but it should say, 'I know and am sure of the rest that remaineth, not because of what I am, but because of what He is. Another element in the perfection of hope is its continuity. That hits home to us all, does it not?
I know not only why today my life is all astir, and a feeling of tremulous joy is passing through my heart. It is as if the time were come to wind up my work, and I feel in the air a faint smell of thy sweet presence. The night is nearly spent waiting for him in vain. I fear lest in the morning he suddenly come to my door when I have fallen asleep wearied out.
Some of the men flew to the boats hoisted up on the quarters, and were casting loose the ropes which secured them, with hands that were tremulous with anxiety and fear. "Silence there, fore and aft!" roared the captain, in the full compass of his powerful voice. "Every man to his station. Come out of those boats directly." All obeyed, except one man, who still continued to cast loose the gripes.
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