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From the boy Emilius, he was now permanently transformed to the student Ulpius. With such a natural disposition as we have already described, and under such guardianship as that of the high priest, there was little danger that Ulpius would disappoint the unusual expectations which had been formed of him. His attention to his new duties never relaxed; his obedience to his new masters never wavered.
On this subject, she again wavered in conjecture, and hesitated whether to speak to the figure, to which a strong and almost irresistible interest urged her; but terror, at intervals, made her reluctant to do so.
When Victor entered, his room that night, an hour later, it was dark. He groped for the candle and stoked the flint. As soon as his eyes grew accustomed to the glare of the light, he looked about, and his shadow wavered on the plastered walls. The Chevalier lay on his cot, his face buried in his arms. Victor touched him and he stirred. "It is all right, Paul."
And probably I should cry a little," she wavered, "towards the dessert when the plum pudding came in and it wasn't like Mother's. But if I made a Christmas of my own " she rallied instantly. "Everything about it would be brand-new and unassociated! I tell you I want to make a Christmas of my own! It's the chance of a life-time! Even Father sees that it's the chance of a life-time!"
How blind, not to have read at once, as she would have done, the whole deed! What she had done, she had done for him, for both, and he had left her to carry the full burden alone. Like a boy, he had wavered at the sight of what she had accomplished so swiftly, so competently, for their sake. To love shamefully, that was not in her, and she had put the cause of shame away.
As Rufe Kinnicutt approached a little log cabin nestling in a sheltered cove he realized that a year had gone by since Renfrow had seen it first, and that thus it must have appeared when he beheld it. The dew was bright on the slanting roof, and the shadow of oak trees wavered over it. The mountain loomed above.
Then who," he asked, suddenly pointing to a door on the left "who is in that room?" They had all crowded after him to the threshold thronging around him as he stood face to face with John Dory. His finger never wavered it was pointing steadily towards that closed door a few feet to the left. Suddenly Letty Shaw rushed past them with a loud shriek. "You shall not go in!" she cried.
My agents thought it as well to have some one there until the builders begin a Mr. Markham " "Markham!" Hermia gasped. "Do you know him?" "Oh er enough to be sure that he is not the kind of person I shall care to cultivate." And then as her Aunt wavered uncertainly. "Oh, of course I shall get along. I can't protest. It's your privilege to choose Milly's friends, even if you mean to exclude me.
The fragrance of the coffee, the smell of the fried ham smote Shorty's olfactories with almost irresistible force. He wavered just a little . "Si, I'd trust you as I would no other man in Co. Q or the regiment. I'll " Then his Spartan virtue reasserted itself: "No, Si; you're too young and skittish. You mean well, but you have spells, when " "Fall in, men," said Lieut.
Here we first knew raging thirst, and longed for the loam-specked water we had scorned, as our tired feet tore through the grass. For Saunders, our guide, took a line across the open in plain sight of any eye that might be watching from the forest cover. But at length our column wavered and halted by reason of some disturbance at the head of it.
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