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The paragraph may remain, however, both for its truth and its exaggeration, as strongly expressive of the tendencies which were really operative in Hollingsworth, and as exemplifying the kind of error into which my mode of observation was calculated to lead me. The issue was, that in solitude I often shuddered at my friend.
The Duchess made no secret of her indignation at being thus superseded and as she considered the matter, outraged. She openly avowed her displeasure. She was at times almost beside herself with rage. There was universal sympathy with her emotions, for all hated the Duke, and shuddered at the arrival of the Spaniards.
"Can't you see?" spoke Ned in a tone of great agitation and excitement. "He has followed me clear here. He is going to drive me away from here, just as he has driven me away from other places. I can't meet him the cold chills run all over me whenever my eyes light on him," and Ned shuddered. "See here, Ned Foreman," said Frank, "you go right into that room.
Lord Elliot shuddered as he touched it; it felt like burning fire in his hand. "It is the key to my grave," murmured he. With a firm hand he put the key in the lock, opened the drawer, and drew out the letters and papers it contained.
"He fell face downward ... his head split open like a rotten melon." Helen Starratt shuddered. "How ... how perfectly fascinating!" escaped her. Starratt stared. He had never seen his wife so kindled with morbid excitement. "I ... I thought you didn't like to hear unpleasant stories," he threw at her, disagreeably.
And as the stars rose, Harold and Edith joined them. Harold's face was serene in the starlight, for the pure soul of his betrothed had breathed peace into his own; and, in his willing superstition, he felt as if, now restored to his guardian angel, the dead men's bones had released their unhallowed hold. But suddenly Edith's hand trembled in his, and her form shuddered.
"You are sad, dear," she repeated, with that air of tenderest sympathy which can be the safest cover for subtle malice. Adelaide shrank. "I'm so glad I've come when I may be able to do some good." Adelaide winced. "How cozy these rooms are " At "cozy" Adelaide shuddered. No one ever used, except apologetically, that word, which is the desperate last resort of compliment.
"I I didn't know you," she faltered again. "What's the matter?" asked Major Baring. But she could not tell him. Already the suspicion that she had behaved unreasonably was beginning to take possession of her. Yet yet Hyde must have seen she was alarmed. He might have reassured her. She recalled the look in his eyes, and shuddered. She was sure he had been drinking.
He shuddered with fear, but, with a courage hardly to be expected in his case, he drew up his rifle, sighted as best he could, and fired point-blank at the brute, when no more than a rod separated the two. It was impossible to miss, even with such an unsteady aim, and the lad had not a particle of doubt that he had hit him; but had he inflicted a mortal wound?
But gradually, as the whole truth seemed to shape itself the figure she made, standing bare as her love had left her before this satyr of a man; the figure of Prosper, tongue in the cheek, leering at her; the figure of Isoult, a loose-limbed wanton sleepy with vice before this hideous trinity, when she had shuddered and cringed, she rose up trembling, possessed with a really imperial rage.
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