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The skin twitched and crept when a twig cracked about their camp at night, and a cold like death crept over the frame when the thickets crashed under a leaping moose. Ray found himself regretting, for the first time, that murderous crime of his of months before.
I was born in Flatbush, and lived there, during my youth, on my father's estate. The city has since grown around the old place, which my niece now owns, but the plum trees stand as they have stood for more than fifty years. It was beneath these plum trees...." Miss Pringle suddenly broke off; her face twitched; she felt for a handkerchief, and found none; she wiped her eyes on her sleeve.
The eyes themselves looked excited and horribly forlorn. His hair and dress were disordered and his lips twitched continually, as if he were shaken by some acute nervous apprehension. "What has become of Pitting?" asked the Father, grasping Guildea's hot and feverish hand. "He has left my service." "Left your service!" exclaimed the Father in utter amazement. "Yes, this afternoon."
Price twitched his nose, and looked at Mr. St. John. "Some signs of the times are hopeful, certainly," the latter said enigmatically. "What! talking seriously in these our hours of ease?" Mrs. Guthrie Brimston broke in. "What is it all about?"
Just for one moment a wave of fury came over me; I had only to put out my arms and I could lift her out of the carriage altogether, this child, this pitiful hen! My arms must have twitched at the thought, for she gave a sudden frightened start, and shifted in her seat.
His lips twitched. He walked on in silence. Ashe looked at him stammered: "Why, my dear Philip, it would be the extinguishing of you!" Darrell said nothing.
And suddenly engaging, he twitched the sword out of my grasp and sent it flying far among the rushes. Twice was this manoeuvre repeated; and the third time when I brought back my humiliated weapon, I found he had returned his own to the scabbard, and stood awaiting me with a face of some anger, and his hands clasped under his skirt.
"Papa," said Daisy unwillingly, "his face is turned away from the other people, so that nobody can see it but me; and he winks." Daisy brought out the last word with an accession of gravity impossible fully to describe. Mr. Randolph's mouth twitched; he bent his head down upon Daisy's, that she might not see it. "That is very rude of him, Daisy," he said.
He lay like a dead man, save that his features twitched horribly as if evil spirits were at work upon him. The whole conflict had occupied but a few minutes, but to the rigid watcher it had been an eternity of fearful tumult. Yet the hard-breathing silence that followed was almost more terrible still. Out of it arose old Dimsdale, wiping his forehead with a shaking hand.
It was a bitter fight. Stafford was beside Ewell when the latter fell, a shell dreadfully shattering his leg. The younger man caught him, drew him quite from poor old Rifle, and with the help of the men about got him behind the slight, slight shelter of one of the little curtsying trees. Old Dick's face twitched, but he could speak.
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