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But, when he saw the assiduity with which the bystanders exerted themselves in his behalf, one raising his head from the pillow, while another exhorted him to swallow a little wine which was warmed for the purpose; when he beheld the sympathising looks of all present, and heard himself accosted in the most cordial terms by the person whom he recollected as his deliverer, all the severity vanished from his countenance; he took Renaldo's hand, and pressed it to his lips; and, while the tears gushed from his eyes, "Praised be God," said he, "that virtue and generosity are still to be found among the sons of men."
My mother pressed me to her heart; and my sweet sister Norah kissed my cheek again and again, gazing at me as sisters are apt to do at a brother of whom they are proud. I am sure I felt proud of her, and wondered that all the young men in the neighbourhood were not dying with love for her; but perhaps they had too much to do in fighting for the liberty of their country.
Aubrey smiled, and pressed the hand of this roughly eloquent speaker, and then they all walked with him up from the shore to the little cottage where he had lived for so many months, and at the gate of which he bade them farewell. "But only for a time," he said, "I shall see you all again. And you will hear of me!"
The old man was heading, not towards us, but for the seashore, and, plain as daylight, he was heading there with a purpose. I remembered now his cry to me from the head of the pass. So I pressed elbows to side again and lit out after him. "He was making for a thick patch of jungle between us and the sea, and though I had run at least a mile out of the way I soon began to overhaul him.
Tears broke from her eyes, and Reardon had the conviction that the child was dead. 'The truth, Amy! She threw herself on her knees by the bedside, and pressed her wet cheek against his hand. 'I am come to nurse you, dear husband, she said a moment after, standing up again and kissing his forehead. 'I have only you now.
After a moment she recovered herself and said, "Wait until I call Rosita." When she returned with the Mexican girl, she conducted Bryant to an upper chamber where he placed Imogene upon a bed, pressed the latter's hand assuringly, and then left her in charge of the other two while he went below to telephone to her uncle. McDonnell had already set out for Sarita Creek, his wife informed Lee.
She looked away for a moment, swiftly pressed her handkerchief to her eyes, then turning toward me said, with a smile, and in her former tones: "Forgive me! I've been a bit lonely and blue this afternoon, for the day has reminded me of the past. I won't be weak and womanish any more. I think some political questions interest a great many women deeply. It must be so.
Hannibal, even at the risk of drowning, pressed his horse forward into the waters of the channel to make himself heard on the ship, and ordering them to stop he held up his hand so imperiously that in an instant the oars dropped motionless along the hull. "Who are you? What do you want?" he asked in Greek. Actæon interpreted between the Romans and the Carthaginian chief.
We could not bear to think of your going to the hospital." Friedrich felt vaguely across the table for the plump little hand of his hostess, and pressed it blindly. "They drove into town that same afternoon, Dr. Morgan in our carriage, and Bob in his buggy, and found you in the found you very ill." "Found me where?" "You were delirious even then." "Found me where?"
He thought she was dead then and he called the nurse, but she still breathed, though her eyes were closed. Jimmy sat down on the edge of the bed beside her and stroked her hand. After a while she roused again and opened her eyes. "Jimmy," she said, "will you stay with me until I go?" The man could make no articulate response, but he pressed her hand reassuringly.
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