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But Beatrice was in a purring stage of contentment, her colour high, her passionate eyes sparkling, and low laughter ever atremble behind her full, red lips. After the dinner we drove to another place exactly like the restaurant, all gilding and crimson plush, and there watched a performance, which for dulness and banality it would be difficult to equal anywhere.
At that moment Charley's rifle rang out. The tip of the bear's great paw reached Toby and sent him sprawling, and as he fell the bear suddenly sank with a grunt like the dying exhaust of an engine. "You got un! You got un!" exclaimed Toby, springing to his feet. "I thought he was going to get you!" said Charley, all atremble. "He just touched me!" Toby boasted.
Ma soeur!" the big fellow cried, hoarsely. He had fallen all atremble now; he could have believed himself demented only for something in Rouletta's face. "You mean HIM? Wat's dis you sayin'?" "I mean him you. Who else could I mean? He doesn't care for me, but for another, and I'm oh, so glad!" "Mon Dieu!" 'Poleon gasped. "For why you look at me lak dat?
It was as if he walked between two great armies that were setting earth and sea atremble as they advanced to deadly combat. The lightning came again, and after it followed a discharge of thunder that gave to the ground under his feet a shuddering tremor. It rolled away, echo upon echo, through the mountains, like the booming of signal-guns, each more distant than the other.
But it was the look in his young mistress's eyes that brought him down to the floor before her in sudden recollection that went straight to his heart, that set him all atremble with choking eagerness. "Take us to him, Frank!" she gasped, her hands clenched tight against her breast.
The wealthiest, most learned, most élite of the city were all in the drawing-rooms, beauty and fashion were in full glow and flow, music all atremble to stir into life, bright eyes were flashing expectation, and dainty lips had sweet words waiting to say, and he would not appear! In vain the mother coaxed, flattered, and got angry; in vain the sisters pleaded, begged, cried, and insisted.
The reserves have been ordered out!" Hawkins stopped and seemed to pull himself together his height increased three inches. A moment before I thought he was a candidate for fatty degeneration of the cerebrum, but now his sturdy frame was all atremble with life. "Another murder! I knew it. Bill Sykes has killed Nancy at last.
There, near a spring where the cows had trampled the ground until it was oozy and the water stood in tiny pools in their hoof prints, the swallows stopped. They put down their beaks into the mud and gathered it in their mouths; and all the time they held their wings quivering up over their beautiful blue backs, like a flock of butterflies just alighting with their wings atremble.
She touched the lapel of my coat. "I love you NOW," she said, and lifted her face to mine. I held her to me and was atremble from top to toe. "O God!" I cried. "And I must go!" She slipped from my arms and paused, regarding me. For an instant the world seemed full of fantastic possibilities.
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