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"Wait a minute." She concluded her business with Joe; finished it briskly and to her own satisfaction. With her bright brown eyes and her alert manner and her quick little movements she made you think of a wren a business-like little wren a very early wren that is highly versed in the worm-catching way. At her next utterance he was startled but game. "Have you had your lunch?" "Why, no; I "
An anchor at each side an anchor stands for an old sailor, you know stands for hope, you know an anchor at each side, and in the middle THANKFUL. It is not easy, on any system of punctuation, to represent the Captain's speech. Yet I hope there may shine out of these facts, even as there shone through his own troubled utterance, some of the charm of that delightful spirit.
Grizzie returned from her inspection of the weather. "It's black theroot, an' dingin' 'oot, wi' great thuds o' win'," she said, quite unaware as usual of the style of her utterance. "God bless me!" murmured his lordship, "what an abominable country!" "Had we not better go to the drawing-room, my lord?" said the laird. "I think, Grizzie," he went on, "you must get supper early.
But old age, and the introduction of a more polished form of utterance, have given to the Scotch all the other advantages of a patois, in addition to its own directness and simplicity. For a moment the dominie was taken aback, and sat reddening over his toddy, which, not daring even to taste it, he went on stirring with his toddy-ladle.
Emotion stopped her utterance and she buried her face in her hands weeping silently. "Shirley," said Jefferson gently, "you are wrong. I love you for yourself, not because of your trouble. You know that. I shall never love any other woman but you.
Trite or profoundly significant, frivolous or of deep import, the words might be construed as expressive of either pleasure or pain, of physical or of mental suffering. Was it a prayer or a malediction, a forecast or a memory, a fear or a regret? A whole life lay in that utterance, a life of wealth or of penury; perhaps it contained a crime!
Then I thank God, Alfred not for giving you to me like other women get their partners for life, but for giving me a love that can't die as long as the universe stands." He saw her breast heave with emotion. He tried to find his voice, but it seemed to have sunken too deep within his throat for utterance. The vague form of a horse and rider appeared outlined against the horizon down the road.
Any utterance from those lips would have attracted my attention; but, filled as this was with marked, if not extraordinary, emotion, I could not fail to be roused to a corresponding degree of curiosity and interest. Thrusting out my head, I cast a rapid glance downward.
Accordingly, when the cry was repeated, as it soon was, though at the same distance as before, it came echoing among the hollow arches of the woods with a wild and almost unearthly cadence, the utterance, as it-seemed, of mortal agony and despair, that breathed a secret horror through the breasts of all.
They gazed upon one another, each one secretly amazed at the other's outbreak of feeling, she grown white and speechless, he with a swift strong sense of his own power and authority as a mere man, nerving him to the utterance of truth for her sake for her sake! regardless of all forms and ceremonies. Then he dropped her hands as quickly as he had grasped them.
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