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That was Ruth's way; her smiles and tears were even closer together than most women's are; she was nearly always quiveringly poised between gayety and sadness; like a living sunbeam continually glancing across life's shadows. "What is it, David, dear?" she pleaded, with her sweet lips close to his ear. "What foolish thing have I said? You must know whatever it was that it was all in fun.
And just as I had loved you for your truth, so then I hated you for your falseness your unbelievable falseness.... Why didn't you deny it all, Ann? Explain clear the mists away from my eyes?" "I was too proud and hurt," she said quiveringly. "If you'd only stooped to explain " He broke off, with a savage gesture. "Forgive me! What right have I to reproach or blame you? The whole fault was mine.
There was fear in the wide blue eyes so resolutely lifted to his. "I don't know how to tell you," she said again. "Maybe I can guess," said Jake. "Ah!" she said, and laid her face down quickly on his sleeve. He laid his free hand on her head. "It's Bunny, is it?" he said. She answered him quiveringly. "Yes, it's it's Bunny." "Well?" said Jake gently. She spoke with her face still hidden.
Her face changed instantly and was quiveringly alight with a pale and guilty agitation. "No . . . oh no, Vincent! I thought you only . . . I had thought you could not really . . . Vincent, forgive me! Forgive me!" She took one of his hands in both hers . . . the last unforgotten touch he was ever to have of her. . . .
He shuddered and closed his eyes. Separate thoughts rose quiveringly from the blur. He thought of a lantern and Samhain. Samhain, the summer-ending of the druids! Perhaps this was the summer ending of his youth and hope. And he had drank in Adam's room that Samhain night to Destiny Destiny who had brought him this!
Almost insensibly she yielded herself to his control. Quiveringly she began to tell him of the morning's happenings. Perhaps it was as well that she did not see Nick's face as she did so, or she might have found it difficult to continue. As it was she spoke haltingly, with many pauses, describing to him Hunt-Goring's arrival and invitation, her own dilemma, her final surrender.
I've offended this Mormon Elder by being a friend to that woman." "Ma'am, is it true what he says?" asked the rider of Jane, but his quiveringly alert eyes never left the little knot of quiet men. "True? Yes, perfectly true," she answered.
As it thus burst upon the vision of the three horsemen, each felt its power in his own way, the man of faith, the man of science, and the fanciful boy, each was differently but deeply moved. The men looked at the comet as the wise and learned of the earth look at the marvels of another world. The boy gazed quiveringly, like a harp struck by a powerful hand.
And a moment later he could not resist a sudden movement and a swift indrawing of breath; for there, before his very eyes, the pencil tilted, very hesitatingly and quiveringly, as if pulled by a spider's thread. He heard, too, the tiny tap of its fall. He glanced at the medium, who jerked his head impatiently, as if for silence. Then once more the silence came down.
She leaned against him, breathing rather hard. "I wish I wish we needn't go," she said. "Why?" said Piers. He held her to him, gazing down at her with his eyes of fiery possession that always made her close her own. "Because because it's so hot," she said quiveringly. "There will be no one I know there. And I and I " "That's just why you are going," he broke in.
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