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She faltered, meeting the measureless reproach in Sara's eyes, and strickenly aware of the hateful interpretation she had put upon the same incident when describing it to her on a former occasion. For the first time, she seemed to lose her composure, rocking a little where she stood and supporting herself by gripping the edge of the table with straining fingers. But no one stirred.
The passion of his protest and the warmth of heart which Hornett's returning confidence had taught him had all died away, and he was his bankrupt, disgraced, and broken self again, old and maudlin, and strickenly conscious of his miseries. 'Phil might help me, he said shakily. 'He 'could, but he won't. He's got plenty of money.
"Maurice! . . . Maurice saved him! . . . Oh, my God!" Her eyes the beautiful, hyacinth eyes stared strickenly in front of her, wide and horrified like the eyes of a hunted thing, and her hands were twisted and wrung beneath the stress of the overwhelming knowledge which Tim had so joyously prattled out to her.
"And won't let you eat two pieces of pie " "Or one piece o' fruit-cake " "Maybe you remember now the times she's said, 'This is no little daughter of mine'?" Margaret turned sharply. "That was only because I was naughty," she pleaded, strickenly, but she knew in her soul it wasn't "only because." She knew it was because. The terror within her was growing more terrible every moment.
I don't see why you're so well, anyway, after getting us all to come on this wild-goose chase." "I know, I know," Ellen strickenly deprecated. "But I'm not going to stay. I jest came for my things." "Is that giggling simpleton sick? I hope he is!" "Mr. Breckon?" Ellen asked, though she knew whom Lottie meant. "No, he isn't sick. He was at lunch." "Was poppa?" "He was at breakfast." "And momma?"
'Why, Bertha, he said, meekly and strickenly, 'wasn't I to come in six months' time and get an answer? 'Will you oblige me by coming for your answer in six months' time, answered Bertha. 'Good-afternoon, Mr. Protheroe. Bertha thought herself more cruel to herself than to him. She knew how infinitely more cruel she was to Thistlewood, but that was not a thing to be avoided.
To go straight from that last farewell with Peter into marriage with a man she did not love it was unthinkable! She shrank from it in every fibre of her being. Some day, perhaps, she could steel herself to make the terrible surrender. But not now, not yet! "No! No!" she cried strickenly. "I can't marry you! Not so soon! You must give me time wait a little! Kitty "
At that instant, or the next, she might fall upon his back, anyway, without anybody shooting her. Indeed, the betting seemed a good few hundred to one that she would. Very few human beings know the full meaning of the word "still" not even bluejackets! but most of the wild-folk do. They have to. So did the thrush, but never before had he kept so utterly, stonily, frozenly, strickenly motionless.
Reckon I think you're going to hell.... Get up.... Go get yourself a gun...." Hardman staggered to his feet, brushing the dirt from his person while he gazed strickenly at Pan. "My God, I can't fight you," he said. "You won't murder me in cold blood... Smith, I'm Lucy's husband... She's my wife." "And what is Louise Melliss?" whipped out Pan. "What does she say about your marriage? You ruined her.
Notwithstanding his anger, and in the very act of the brave vows he was taking, the voice found his heart like a bullet. He stopped dead with hanging arms and looked strickenly in the direction whence it came. Presently the dugout came flying around a bend in the creek above. She landed at the head of the little rapids, and ran toward him. He waited with sombre eyes.
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