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A man may be big enough and strong enough to tip over a box car, loaded with pig iron, but if his heart is one of these little ones intended for a miser, with no pepper sauce running from the heart to the arteries and things, and a liver that is white, and nerves that are trembly, and no gall to speak of, why a big man is liable to be walked all over by a nervy little man who is spunky, and gets mad and froths at the mouth.
At last from within the water, sounding like a child singing miles and miles away, I heard an unbelievably thin, small voice. "Ah!" I said. "What is it?" asked the Doctor in a hoarse, trembly whisper. "What does he say?" "I can't quite make it out," I said. "It's mostly in some strange fish language Oh, but wait a minute!
She sprang up and found the missing article, and with a great show of cheerfulness lit the lamp and held the match out for him to light his pipe. "What's the matter?" asked the Colonel; "sort of trembly, ain't you?" "Me? Watch me!" She held the match very straight and very tight, then as it wavered, blew it out and dropped it down his sleeve.
'Miss Tox, Paul, pursued Mrs Chick, still retaining her hand, 'knowing how much I have been interested in the anticipation of the event of to-day, and how trembly and shaky I have been from head to foot in expectation of it, has been working at a little gift for Fanny, which I promised to present. Miss Tox is ingenuity itself. 'My dear Louisa, said Miss Tox. 'Don't say so.
Harry has given me a headache to-night; and I dare say he is enjoying himself precisely as the Jerusalem prodigal did before the swine husks, when it was the riotous living." "Have a cup of coffee, Sophy. I'll go down for it. You are just as trembly and excited as you can be." "Very well; thank you, Charlotte. You always have such a bright, kind face.
And just about then this here Nancy Allen disappeared. She was a funny little woman about as big as a 'leven year old girl, and wore a shawl around her head, and carried a cane and smoked a pipe. She allus came to town with Old Bender and his wife which was a friend or somethin' of Nancy, and a boy with a mouth as big as a colt's and as trembly, which was Old Bender's boy.
Dora said it was wrong. 'Dora displayed considerable common sense, said Lord Tottenham, and he let Noel go. And Alice put her arm round Noel and tried to cheer him up, but he was all trembly, and as white as paper. Then Lord Tottenham said 'Will you give me your word of honour not to try to escape? So we said we would. 'Then follow me, he said, and led the way to a bench.
She was flushed and shaken, but she looked past him without blinking an eyelash to me. "Dear me," she said, "the sermon must have been exciting, Minnie! You are quite trembly!" And with that she picked up her muff and went out, with not a glance at him. He looked at me. "Well," he said, "THAT'S over. She's angry, Minnie, and she'll never forgive me." "Stuff!"
"But you said you thought it must have been me always." "I know; but that was different oh, I'm all mixed up. I'm so nervous and trembly now. Oh," she cried suddenly, her face overcast with a look of earnestness and great seriousness, both her hands catching at his wrist, "Oh, you WILL be good to me, now, won't you?
There was a trembly feeling through Stubby's insides, but outwardly he was bristling just like his hair bristled as he demanded: "Where am I to get what's coming to me?" "'Fraid you won't get it, sonny. We're all in the same boat." He looked Stubby up and down and then added: "Kind of little for that boat." "I got to have it!" cried Stubby. "I tell you, I got to!" The man shook his head.
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