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They laughed out together, and then they stopped suddenly and listened. "Was it anything?" "No, I think not." "Are you sure?" Velasco leaned towards her and their fingers touched for a moment. She drew them away. "Shall we go; is it time?" "Not yet," said Velasco, "not yet! Your lips are so sweet, they are arched like a bow; they quiver like a string when one plays on it. Kiss me, Kaya."
Sunday peace seemed to reign, the languid summer Sunday peace of tranquil nature. Yet even through this there was a faint breath of impending events, a quiver or excitement in the air, an increasing expectation on the part of men, who sensed but did not realize what was to come.
"I hear, Philip," she said, "that a bomb was thrown today from a German aeroplane into the Place de l'Opéra, killing a woman and injuring several other people." "It is true, mother." John glanced covertly at Julie, and saw her face pale. But she did not tremble. "Is it true also that the German army is near?" asked Madame Lannes, with just the faintest quiver in her voice. "Yes, mother.
A quiver went along his spine. His nostrils widened unconsciously as he calculated a leap and a blow at Tump's gun. The soldier took a step backward, at the same time bringing the barrel to a ready. "Naw you don't," he warned sharply. "You turn roun' an' march on to Niggertown." "What for?" Peter still tried to be casual, but his voice held new overtones.
Lord Airlie went to the drawing room where he had left Beatrice, and told her Lord Earle's answer; she smiled, but he saw the white lips quiver as she did so. Only one month since his passionate, loving words would have made the sweetest music to her; she listened and tried to look like herself, but her heart was cold with vague, unutterable dread.
And slate after slate is brought into the office; the accounts grow a little every day, they fill many columns, swell into larger and larger amounts; the spring season has commenced, the active period just before summer; all the pulses of trade the world over leap and quiver with passionate energy.
With his keen brotherly love, however, there was blended such a quiver of impending distress, of unconfessed sorrow, which possibly he did not yet realise, that Pierre in his turn began to question him. "And you," said he, "are you ill? You seem to me to have lost your usual serenity." "I? Oh! I'm not ill.
Ray bowed low over the white hand which Mona mechanically offered him, and which he clasped in a way to send a thrill leaping along her nerves that made the violets upon her bosom quiver, as if a breath of wind had swept over them. She barely had time to acknowledge the presentation, however, when an icy voice behind her remarked: "Miss Richards, Mr.
He beheld his favorite thrown forward across a table, from which an overturned inkstand dripped its contents, unnoticed, to the floor. The new-comer never paused for this; for his eyes had fallen on the letter, crushed in one of Ivan's out-stretched hands; and then he gazed upon the body which he perceived to quiver, from time to time, with half-conscious, reminiscent sobs.
He felt a quiver in the cold fingers over which his warm hand closed, saw the throbbing of the artery in her white throat, the ebbing of the scarlet in lips that bravely held their coaxing, smiling curves, and he knew that the crisis he had long foreseen was drawing near. Leaning closer, he looked down into her brown eyes. The end must come; but he would not precipitate it.
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