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Updated: June 19, 2025
It was at that instant of the major's soft-voiced pleading and of the widow's low, monosyllabic replies, that a voice from out the plantation on their left smote sharply upon their ears. It called affrightedly upon Mrs Eddington's name. The mother, whose mother-love was, and would always be, the strongest passion of her life, fled into the wood.
And now a terrible thing happens swift as lightning she lifts her hand, and gives him a little stinging blow across his face. A second afterwards she has her hands upon her breast, and is crying affrightedly. "I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!" Yet through all the fright he can hear there is not an atom of real sorrow in her voice. "Let that alone," says he, smiling grimly. "I dare say I deserved it.
He was conscious of the heat, but of no other suffering; yet his limbs lacked life, and it no longer seemed possible for him to twist himself about so as to fall easily from the gutter. "Come on! Come on!" rose in yells from below, but there was no movement in him. "We can't wait. The wall will fall," rose affrightedly from below.
From any one spot they seemed at once to swagger and to slink, swaying as they moved on and vanished into obscurity. The small wild things in the night paused affrightedly in their scurryings until they had gone far away. Fani said in a soft voice: "This is nice!" "What's nice about it?" demanded Hoddan.
"Did you hear anybody calling after us?" she asked, looking up and down the road affrightedly, the instant I stopped. "No, no. I was only struck by the name of Limmeridge House. I heard it mentioned by some Cumberland people a few days since." "Ah! not my people. Mrs. Fairlie is dead; and her husband is dead; and their little girl may be married and gone away by this time.
The car went back to the head of the street where its entrance would be made. "All right ready!" came the megaphoned order. Again the peaceful street was thrown into panic by this snorting dragon from the outer world. The old men hobbled affrightedly within doors, the mothers saved their children.
Humbled, degraded, though he was, these words of hope sent the blood coursing through his veins wildly. Saved! Was it possible? Young Jack stepped out of the circle and approached the miserable wretch. "When we last stood face to face, and when you ordered the Greek brigands to fire on us, Hunston, I told you that this would come about." Hunston shrank affrightedly before the lad.
In the darkness of the evening street Mattie Strong accosted Scattergood that evening, clinging to his arm tremulously. "Mr. Baines," she whispered, affrightedly, "he's come!" "Who's come?" "Mavin Newton he's here, in town." Scattergood frowned. "See him?" "Hain't seen him, but he's here. I kin feel him. I knowed it the minute he come." "Calc'late I've seen everybody here, and I hain't seen him."
Yet you will forgive me now, father, as you have always forgiven me! You have been patient with me all my life; more patient than I have ever deserved! But I had no mother to teach me to love you as I ought, to teach me what I know now, when my death is near, and time and opportunity are mine no longer! 'Hush! hush! whispered the old man affrightedly; 'you will live!
With Numerian, as with the rest of the people, all apprehension, all doubt, all exercise of reason, was overpowered by the one eager idea of escaping from the fatal precincts of Rome. So they mingled with the throng, herding affrightedly together in the rear of the embassy, and followed in their ranks as best they might.
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