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With wan eyes, his teeth compressed, his mouth foaming, tearing mechanically with his nails his breast, he felt his reason totter, and was lost in an abyss of darkness. When he awoke from his stupor, he walked heavily, and with an ill-assured step; objects trembled in his sight; he felt as if recovering from a fit of intoxication. He shut with violence the street door, and re-entered the court.
Although astonished at this request, Margaret, eager for any subject of passing occupation that might enliven, even for a moment, an hour's ennui, desired that she might be admitted; and shortly after a simply dressed girl, whose sunken head could not conceal her exquisite beauty, was ushered in. Her step as ill-assured and trembling; her face was deadly pale.
There was something faltering and ill-assured in her manner, and in a moment she turned back with 'Mr. Underwood, where are you stopping? He answered; and with 'I'll tell my sisters, she parted with them again. 'That's Miss Bridget, commented old Tripp. 'She's the one as allys says, "I'll tell my sisters." They do say as Miss Isabella, she be the master on 'em all.
Altogether, a great lady, and a personality yet something else too something ill-assured, timid, incongruous hard to be defined. "I believe you have not been at Mellor long?" the new-comer asked, in a deep contralto voice which she dragged a little. "About seven weeks. My father and mother have been there since May." "You must of course think it a very interesting old place?"
However, she made no opposition to the resolution of the prelates, who forthwith proceeded to the dauphin, who received them with considerable coolness. As yet, but ill-assured in the new part he had to play, the prince showed himself fearful and embarrassed.
'No, thank you, at least I mean, I'm just come in. He went to speak to some one, and I came to finish my letter. He'll soon come, said she, with the rapid ill-assured manner of a school-girl receiving her mamma's visitors. 'Don't let me interrupt you, said he, taking up a book. 'O no, no, thank you, cried she, in a tremor lest she should have been uncivil. 'I didn't mean I've plenty of time.
A gem of many facets, and variable hues of fire; a woman who withheld the better portion of her beauty, and then, in a caressing second, flashed it like a weapon full on the beholder; now merely a tall figure and a sallow handsome face, with the evidences of a reckless temper; anon opening like a flower to life and colour, mirth and tenderness: Madame von Rosen had always a dagger in reserve for the despatch of ill-assured admirers.
I am still always nervous before a lecture, and feel miserable and ill-assured, but, once on my feet, I am at my ease, and not once on the platform after the lecture has commenced have I experienced the painful feeling of hesitancy and "fear of the sound of my own voice" of which I have often heard people speak. The death of Mr.
Angela fidgeted, as if she didn't like the style of the conversation. 'You know, he continued, 'there may be rules that you may not see the use of, but that must be obeyed for all that. 'What a tiresome dry old Blunderbore you are! broke out Angela, with ill-assured sauciness; 'this isn't the way Edgar goes on when he comes to see us.
In the fourth and last, on the Passions, he seems to have grown weary of his task; for he has here less compression and less dignity. His verse is much more compact than Thomson's, whom he resembles most in the turn of the expression; although he has aimed now and then, but with an ill-assured and timid hand, at a Miltonic boldness in the numbers or the phrase.
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