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There was a little quiver in her form, but it was not of agony; then she put her hands on the shoulders of her governess, and, looking in her eyes, said: "When you did see him, how did he look how did he look? pretty sad?" "How could he help it?" "The dear! But was he well?" "Splendidly, so he said. Like his old self." "Tell me," said the girl.
They'll come back to me no more. Could I have a talk with them, things might be straightened out; but I must do what is to be done alone." Not a quiver shook the low, severe voice. The very hardness moved Farwell to deep pity. "It's now, Mr.
He saw her dismay, confusion, even her terror, and noticed the quiver of her hands and the irregular leap of her bosom, but these did not dismay him. He was accustomed to be beloved even as he loved, and the women of the harem who came to him in fear left him with happy confidence.
What is her answer Yes, or No?" A thousand objections rushed into my mind. "Non, non, non!" said all these; but looking up at M. Paul, and seeing in his vexed, fiery, and searching eye, a sort of appeal behind all its menace, my lips dropped the word "oui". For a moment his rigid countenance relaxed with a quiver of content: quickly bent up again, however, he went on, "Vite a l'ouvrage!
The shield, the quiver, the lance and the bow of its master, were to be seen suspended from a light post before the opening, or door, of each habitation.
Jinny gazed at her sister-in-law with such meaning that Mary could not but respond. "Did you get her safely laid down, dear?" "Perfectly, Mary! Without even the quiver of an eyelash. You recollect, I told you yesterday when her little head touched the pillow, she opened her eyes and looked at me. To-day there was nothing of that sort.
The other stopped and called after him, saying: "You have not a sou to pay your way across the bridge. Take this," he added, giving the man a piece of money; "and remember, my friend, that God Himself is speaking to us when a good thought comes into our hearts." This last remark made the dreamer at the parapet quiver.
"What was in there?" he asked, springing to his feet. "This," she said, "don't move, Dr. van Heerden!" The little hand which held the Browning was firm and did not quiver. "I don't think you are going to send your pigeons off this morning, doctor," she said. "Stand back from the table." She leant over and seized the little heap of papers and the watch.
And, as I spoke, the faintest sound spread from the top of the stairs, and a board creaked under the steps of a man. I was close against the duke, and I felt him quiver with a stifled laugh. Meanwhile the Cardinal's Necklace pressed hard against my ribs under my tightly buttoned coat. For an Empty Box.
As the snowy sash creaked in my hand, he made off to the water-spout that suspends its "tangles" of ice over a gaping tank, and, rebounding from that, with a quiver of his little black breast, bobbed through the network of wire and joined a few of his fellows in a forlorn hop round the henhouse in search of food.
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