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I saw by the early twilight this fair young head, as it was sinking down to darkness saw this marble arm, as it rose above her head and her treacherous grave, tossing, faultering, rising, clutching as at some false deceiving hand stretched out from the clouds saw this marble arm uttering her dying hope, and then her dying despair.
Persons of this class will still continue to feel what he has felt: he has expressed what they might in vain wish to express, except with glistening eye and faultering tongue! There is a lofty philosophic tone, a thoughtful humanity, infused into his pastoral vein.
Suffice it to say, that I saw cars, loaded with the dead and dying, and driven by their yet ensanguined murderers; one of whom, in a tone of exultation, cried, 'Here is a glorious day for France! I endeavoured to assent, though with a faultering voice, and, as soon as they were passed escaped to my room. You may imagine I shall not easily recover the shock I received.
Thus I lay gasping, panting under him, till his broken breathings, faultering accents, eyes twinkling with humid fires, lunges more furious, and an increased stiffness, gave me to hail the approaches of the second period: it came... and the sweet youth, overpowered with the ecstasy, died away in my arms, melting a flood that shot in genial warmth into the innermost recesses of my body; every conduit of which, dedicated to that pleasure, was on flow to mix with it.
By the help of proper applications the marquis recovered his senses and his pains had a short cessation. 'I am dying, said he, in a faultering accent; 'send instantly for the marchioness and my son. Ferdinand, in escaping from the hands of the banditti, it was now seen, had fallen into the power of his father.
After some time, I went to Ludloe's apartment. I found him solemn, and yet benign, at my entrance. After intimating my compliance with the terms prescribed, which I did, in spite of all my labour for composure, with accents half faultering, he proceeded to put various questions to me, relative to my early history.
"And we shall be happy to see you, Mick; and Julia, if you are not engaged;" continued the girl; and she looked at her friend, a pretty demure girl, who immediately said, but in a somewhat faultering tone, "Oh! that we shall." "And what are you going to do now, Caroline?" said Mick.
It soon came on, when Louisa, in the ravings of her pleasure-frensy, impotent of all restraint, cried out: "Oh Sir!... Good Sir! pray do not spare me! ah! ah!..." All her accents now faultering into heart-fetched sighs, she closed her eyes in the sweet death, in the instant of which we could easily see the signs in the quiet, dying, languid posture of her late so furious driver, who was stopped of a sudden, breathing short, panting, and, for that time, giving up the spirit of pleasure.
She was hastily retiring, when Montoni's voice arrested her, and, in a faultering accent, she said, 'I would speak with you, Signor Montoni, if you are at leisure. 'These are my friends, he replied, 'whatever you would say, they may hear.
"I don't know myself any where you please do you order him." "I order him! you came not hither to receive orders from me! where was it you had purposed to rest?" "I don't know I meant to go to Mrs Hill's I have no place taken." "No place taken!" repeated he, in a voice faultering between passion and grief; "you purposed, then, to stay here? I have perhaps driven you away?"
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