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'To be candid, Ma, I think I should have kept it from you if I could: though I had not decidedly made up my mind. I was following Jasper out, to confer with him on the subject, and to consider the expediency of his and my jointly hushing the thing up on all accounts, when I found him speaking to you. Then it was too late. 'Too late, indeed, Sept.
"Because there are people. Hurry. Now here, with just the trees around us " And he tore off the mask. The white, cold moon shone over them, slipping down between the dark tops of the trees, and the wind stirred slowly through the branches with a faint, hushing sound, as if once more a warning were coming to Pierre this night. He looked up, his left hand at the cross. "Look down.
Instinctively the mother began to hush and soothe her, and in a moment more was singing a lullaby to her. Phemy fell fast asleep. Then Kirsty told what she had done, and while she spoke, the mother sat silent brooding, and hushing, and thinking. When she had told all, Kirsty rose, and laying aside the stocking, said, 'I maun awa to Weelset, mother.
There's no rest for anybody in this house. My head's as heavy as lead, and every bone in me has got an ache in it." Before long, the renewed silence indicated that she had succeeded in hushing the child to sleep. Farnaby forgot the restraints of caution for the first time. His face flushed with excitement; he ventured nearer to the window, in his eagerness to find out what might happen next.
She ceased to listen for Chester's coming, but hushing her tread, as if in the close presence of death, crept away to a corner and prayed silently. There are moments in human life when persons linked together in a series of events may form tableaux, which stand out from ordinary grouping, like an illustration stamped in strong light and shadow on the book of destiny.
The child only did not seem to share our emotions, but, clambering on the bed, laid her cheek on the breast, and was still. "Pisistratus," whispered my father at last, and I stole near, hushing my breath, "Pisistratus, if your mother were here!" I nodded; the same thought had struck us both. His deep wisdom, my active youth, both felt their nothingness then and there.
Christian never ages. The man's head turned a trifle. There was a smile flickering about his lips; and in the smile was something of the ogre, and something of the boy. It was clear that he meant to kill; equally clear that he took joy in his purpose. He sat down again; and as he did so held up a finger, hushing himself.
Back no damn good for ride. No ketchum gol' long time now." Casey took a chew of tobacco. This was getting to the point he had been aiming for, and he needed his wits working at top speed. "Well, if you got a gold mine, you can eat jam all the time. Drink whisky, too," he added, hushing his conscience peremptorily.
Perhaps there is too much champagne in the air and I am never wholly sober. Perhaps it is only in the desert that any one ever lives to the utmost. The endless singing of the stream is hushing me into a sweet drowsiness even as I write. By the way, I wonder if I have written sense. If not, forgive me! But I am much too lazy to read it through. I think I must have eaten of the lotus.
And Adam, with a start, began hushing it after the fashion of a chimpanzee. The old bell rang out another hour: how genial and loving it was! "Nine o'clock! Let me up, boys!" and Lot Tyndal hustled them aside from the steps of the concert-hall. They made way for her: her thin, white arms could deal furious blows, they knew from experience.
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