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He looked so fierce that everybody laughed somewhat tremulously. There could be no doubt that he meant all he said. Celia's cheeks were pink with excitement; Mrs. Birch's were of a similar hue, in sympathy with her daughter's joy. "I tell you, that girl Charlotte," began the captain again, "deserves all anybody can do for her. She has developed three years in one.
His dark face was dyed with the blood that rushed to the roots of his hair, and his forehead was damp with the moisture of embarrassment, but he rose from his seat and went to meet her with a welcoming smile. "Oh, Hughie!" she gasped tremulously in gratitude and relief as she ran rather than walked down the remaining stairs.
"What if they refuse to let your radiant Highness go?" put in Happy Toko tremulously. "What if the Gheewizard should work his magic before you finished your speech?" "Then we'll make a dash for it!" said Sir Hokus, twirling his sword recklessly. "I'm with you," said the Cowardly Lion huskily, "but you needn't have come back for me." "All right!" said the Scarecrow cheerfully.
He stayed his steps, and his eyes followed the thin columns of smoke, which floated tremulously up in the clear light of the ever mounting sun from the numerous hearths that lay below him.
There was no response, and, after waiting for some time, she spoke again, rather tremulously, yet not timidly: "Father?" He rose, and upon his brow were marked the blackest lines of anger she had ever seen, so that she leaned back from him, startled; but he threw down the open paper before her on the table, and struck it with his clenched fist. "Read that!" he said.
He might have had here his part, she knew tremulously; it might have been his role to stand here beside Aaron Burr, and, with a passionately humble and grateful heart, she nursed the memory of that winter night when he had sworn to her that from that hour he and this enterprise should be strangers.
She flashed a little sidelong look at him and laughed tremulously. "It's good of you to pick me a husband you can endorse so heartily. Would you mind telling me his name if it isn't a secret?" "You know mighty well, but I reckon all girls play the game of making believe it isn't so for a while. All right. You don't have to admit it till the right time. But you'll send me a card, won't you?"
She waited, as in our toils we wait for Heaven trusting to the joy that was to come. After dinner, she spoke, with fear and trembling. Her lips turned quite white with anxiety as she stood before Mrs. Grubbling with the baby in her arms. "Please, mum," says Glory, tremulously, "Katie Ryan asked me over for a little while to-night to look at the party." Mrs.
"Well!" cried Staniford, with bitter impatience. "Well what?" Dunham asked, in a stupid voice. "Were they there?" "I don't know. I can't tell." "Can't tell, man? Did you go to see?" "I think so. I'm not sure." A heavy sense of calamity descended upon Staniford's heart, but patience came with it. "What's the matter, Dunham?" he asked, getting out tremulously. "I don't know.
Death came on rapidly in deep, resounding roars, and the misery of the cringing, suffering brute was unfolded told in heart-rending intonations, until at last he gave up his breath in one terror-stricken cry. Jinnie dropped her hands suddenly. "He's dead," she said tremulously. "Poor, poor lion!" She turned tear-wet eyes to Theodore King. "Shall I play any more?" she asked, shyly.
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