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Sisters swift and saintly Seem to tread on grass; Like flowers stirring faintly, Heads turn to watch them pass. Beauty, blood, and sorrow, Blending in a trance Eternity's to-morrow In this half-way house of France. Sounds of whispered talking, Laboured indrawn breath; Then like a young girl walking The dear familiar Death.
I think firelight at this hour so much the pleasantest, don't you?" "Oh, yes," he responded desperately, and indeed was glad of the shelter of a shadow on his face; but he said to himself, with clenched hands and a long indrawn breath, "Now comes the tug-of-war."
He stopped abruptly with a quick indrawn breath and the hope that she had not noticed. He was, by several seconds, too late. "Whose yacht is it?" Olivia asked promptly. "I wondered." St. George had dreaded the question.
What met my startled gaze was an image of some nameless horror of features grooved, and battered, and shapeless, as if they had been torn by a wild beast. I gave a little indrawn gasp and turned about. There stood the Major, plainly himself, with a pleasant smile on his face. "What's up?" said he.
The old man said never a word, but with indrawn breath hissing through his clenched teeth, clutched her, and down they went together in the passage, the piper undermost. He had her by the throat, it is true, but she had her fingers in his eyes, and kneeling on his chest, kept him down with a vigour of hostile effort that drew the very picture of murder.
Living so, learning by signs the language of law and wisdom, she had indrawn the significance of legend, the power of the awful natural. She had made her own commandments. When Ambroise the courier came, she had looked into his eyes and seen her own indeed, it was most wonderful, for those two pairs of eyes were as those of one person.
"Takes it hard, poor old chap, doesn't he?" whispered Narkom, glancing round and getting something of a shock when he saw that Cleek, who a moment before had appeared to be almost on the verge of tears, was now fumbling in his coat pockets, and, with indrawn lips and knotted brows, was scowling absolutely scowling in the direction where Captain Morford stood, biting his lips and drumming with his finger nails upon the edge of the washstand.
Winthrop was still sitting gazing into the fire with that indrawn, abstracted expression on his face which was habitual to it in repose. I waited silently near until Mrs. Flaxman should come in and interrupt his reverie.
That one breath was, in truth, indrawn, but whether or no there was ever an outlet for the same remained a question with the audience. A woollen cap was deftly and unexpectedly thrust between the malevolent lips and several pair of hands held it there until the little singer left the stage.
He paused midway in his phrase with indrawn breath, waiting for her reply. She gave it firmly and without hesitation. "I have cast my eyes on no man, my lord, and have no desire to marry." "Wouldst consecrate thy virginity to Vesta then?" he asked with a sneer. "Rather that," she replied, "if my lord would so deign to command." "Tush!" he broke in impatiently.
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