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Updated: July 29, 2025
She had an instant's circling choice of the person she would represent to this priest in the little intermingling half-hour of their lives that lay shaken out before them, and dropped unerringly. It really hardly mattered, but she always had such instants.
In houses remote and widely scattered the security of the longstanding peace was being insidiously undermined and shaken and guns were taken furtively out and oiled.
On both occasions the Russians were so badly shaken that, in the opinion of competent judges, they could easily have been driven in on Nicopolis or Sistova, in which case the bridges at those places might have been seized. But Osman did not do so, doubtless because he knew that his force, weak in cavalry and unused to manoeuvring, would be at a disadvantage in the open.
Though her touch was as light as a snow-flake, I would not have shaken it off for the world. "The streets are unquiet to-night," said my father, "and I mean no one to go forth till the girls return home, when we will see them safely to their door; going out the back way." So we spent the next hour in a sober, subdued manner.
Something, I did not know what, had shaken my very life's center something in the shape of dread, yet so mixed with delight that my hand fell from the knob I had been blindly groping for and sank heavily at my side. His eyes had not left my face. "May I ask whom I have the honor of addressing?" he asked, in a tone I might better never have heard from his lips. To this I must make reply.
But at this moment Harold's hand encountered the bolt. With a sigh of relief he shot it into the socket, and then, searching farther, he supplemented the defences with a massive bar, which, he knew, ought always to be in place at night. Then he sped back along the passage, while muttered curses reached his ears from without, and the door was shaken furiously.
If Todd had an appointment for a conference there at that hour with Burton, I am positive it was news to Mrs. Todd and me. I could feel her weight growing heavier on my cushion springs. "Thank you for the invitation," she replied, "but I am so badly shaken up, I prefer to sit out here." To which her husband added, laughingly: "She wouldn't risk having her new car stolen for anything."
This done, Nicholas and his men quickly retreated, and the door was closed and barred upon the enraged and discomfited knight. Many hours had passed by, and night had come on a night profoundly dark. Richard was still lying where he had fallen at the foot of Malkin Tower; for though he had regained his sensibility, he was so bruised and shaken as to be wholly unable to move.
He had quiet fancies of his own about people and things, and many of these reticent, rarely-expressed ideas were reverent, chivalrous ones of women. The opposing force of a whole world could never have shaken his faith in Priscilla Gower, or touched his respect for her; but though, perhaps, he had never understood it so, he had never felt very enthusiastically concerning her.
But was it all worth it?... He argued the point with himself, almost passively, stroking his brown beard meditatively; but the fact that he could argue it at all showed that the foundations of his philosophy were shaken. Well, then ... Frank ... What about him? Where was he?
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