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Over this little wavering taper in the vaults Emma cowered, cherishing the hand, silently hoping for the voice. It came: 'Winter. 'It is a cold winter, Tony. 'My dear will be cold. 'I will light the fire. Emma lost no time in deciding to seek the match-box. The fire was lit and it flamed; it seemed a revival in the room.
The agreement thus concluded was communicated by Duchâtel to the council, which approved of it. Meanwhile the Chamber met, the session was opened, and from the very first the Government could perceive a wavering in the majority. On the ministers being informed of it Guizot said: "Withdraw the question from the hands of those who now hold it, and let it be brought back to the Chamber.
The aisles were filled with little girls in misty white and floating veils, stealing forward. And Mary Agatha was among them. Rosalie told Emmy Lou she meant some day to belong to Mary Agatha's church. Emmy Lou thought she would, too. But afterward Emmy Lou found herself wavering. Was Emmy Lou's a sordid soul? For next came Confirmation at the Synagogue, and that, it seemed, meant presents.
If we set aside all the element derived from law and polity which runs through our current moral notions, I hardly know what we shall have left. The residuum was somehow, and in some vague way, intelligible to the ante-political man, but it must have been uncertain, wavering, and unfit to be depended upon.
There is a terse determination in its brief, indignant sentences which is a relief to the reader weary of the wavering and purposeless campaign: "Dear and good friends, good and loyal Frenchmen of the town of Rheims. Jeanne, the Maid, sends you news of her.
She hoped that this interview would transform her position, and save her. If on hearing this news he were to say to her resolutely, passionately, without an instant's wavering: "Throw up everything and come with me!" she would give up her son and go away with him. But this news had not produced what she had expected in him; he simply seemed as though he were resenting some affront.
Color rippled across it with every twist and turn he gave to the length dark blue fading to pale violet, accented with wavering streaks of vivid and startling green. Ross experimented with a row of small, brilliant-green studs which made a transverse line from the right shoulder to the left hip, and they came apart.
About this time, the eight Apostles returned to the arbour of Gethsemani, and after talking together for some time, ended by going to sleep. They were wavering, discouraged, and sorely tempted. They had each been seeking for a place of refuge in case of danger, and they anxiously asked one another, 'What shall we do when they have put him to death?
However, said she, 'to be serious, I would be glad to know what real probability there is in advancing and succeeding in this design, for I would take my measures accordingly, and keep Philander, whose wavering, or rather lost fortune, is the greatest motive of my resolves to part with him, and that have made me so uneasy to him. Brilliard told her, he was very confident of the design, and that it was almost impossible to miscarry in the discontent all France was in at this juncture; and they feared nothing but the Prince's relapsing, who, now, most certainly preferred love to glory.
"We might as well look at the study first," she said in a more gracious tone, "and we can draw lots to see who is to have the inside bedroom. I dare say the change to this building will be a rest." Berta took quick survey from the window to explore the cause for this amazing wavering of purpose. "Ah!" she murmured in swift enlightenment, "it's Sara. She's coming over the path."
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