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"Good God!" said Planchet, looking earnestly at his old master, as if in doubt as to the state of his reason. "Well, what is it?" said D'Artagnan; "who hurts you?" "Me! nothing, monsieur." "You said, 'Good God!" "Did I?" "I am sure you did. Can you already understand?" "I confess, M. d'Artagnan, that I am afraid " "To understand?" "Yes."
Art afraid to dare the black river?" "No, madam, not with you on the other side, and my father to follow me." "Well said. Let the maiden follow next after me. Or mayhap Master Eyre should come next, then the young lady. For you, my ladies, and you, good sirs, you are free to follow or not, as the fancy strikes you. So here is Charon once more must I lie down?"
"Beth," he said gently, but had to touch her to attract attention, "I want you to sit here and wait while I arrange for our journey. You are not afraid?" "No," her voice utterly devoid of emotion, "I am not afraid." "You will remain here?" She looked at him, her face expressionless, as though she failed to understand. Yet when he pointed to the stone she sat down.
I wouldn't want to go to Winnipeg if I had only somebody to keep me company." He turned towards her suddenly with decision in his face, and Sally lowered her eyes. "Don't you think you could get anybody if you tried?" she inquired. "The trouble," said Hawtrey gravely, "is that I have so little to offer. It's a poor place, and I'm almost afraid, Sally, that I'm rather a poor farmer.
I am afraid that is not possible for some time to come." "But I shall hear from Miss Ranscomb?" "Oh, yes. The messenger will come to you in Malines." "Who is the messenger?" "Of that I have no knowledge," was Vervoort's reply. He seemed a very refined man, and was no doubt an extremely clever crook.
"I wish I could have reached here in time to see her before she went to sleep," she said. "I am afraid if she woke up now and found you were here she would not go to sleep again all night," said Ruby's mother.
Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three decisive questions. It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert?
This society objected to the League partly because it was afraid of the decrease of armaments, and ultimately of wars. Unlikely as this prospect sounded, the society was taking no chances.
The old illustration of one soldier who accused another of having no bravery because he had no fear, by saying, "If you were as much afraid as I am you would have run away long ago," is not true to life, for it is the man of dulled feelings that is the first to run, and the "man who is afraid of being afraid" who stays at his post to the last.
He felt ready to stamp with vexation, but controlling himself he passed the word, and the boats backed down the stream, that in which the officer in command was seated, naturally being the last of the three. "Wouldn't it have been better to have brought the Malays, sir?" said Bob. "Yes, of course; but the cowards were afraid to come, my good lad," said the lieutenant.
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