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How often people wondered, how two people could love each other? With what did they enchant each other? If it were true? Suppose there were spirits that could be captured with a talisman, which would do all one bade them? Czipra involuntarily shuddered: she did not know why, but her whole body trembled and shivered. "No, not so," she said to herself.
There was something so convincing, so gloomy in his tone, that Belleville was involuntarily affected by it. For the first time his brow was clouded, and a slight pallor took possession of his cheek; but he forced back this prophetic shudder quickly, and raised his pistol with a firm hand.
He saw her shake hands cordially with the former and a sneer disfigured his mouth; but it involuntarily dissipated as she was buried in the hug of the old woman who was patting her on the shoulder and crying for joy.
Quotations from one or the other were continually in readiness, uttered with all the air of a man so deeply impressed with certain sentiments, that they involuntarily burst from him on every occasion.
Then with a sudden outburst of vehemence, that seems to pierce almost involuntarily the rigid armour of British phlegm and British self-control, he calls to his old comrades of Salamanca and Vittoria: "Boys, which of us now can think of retreating? What would England think of us, if we do?"
I know what I know! chuckled the mother. 'Let some look to it. Let some be upon their guard. My gal may keep good company yet! Then, seeing that in the wondering earnestness with which her daughter regarded her, her hand involuntarily closed upon the money, the old woman made more speed to secure it, and hurriedly added, 'but I'll go buy something; I'll go buy something.
She hastily flung the letter on the blazing coals. "Uh! I cannot bear the sight of blood!" she said. "How did he die?" I had involuntarily risen to rescue that scrap of paper, sacred even to me, and now stood partly behind her. As she asked the question she turned her face about and slightly upward.
At the same time he felt that the deeper the ground sank under him the closer bound he involuntarily became to the order. When he had joined the Freemasons he had experienced the feeling of one who confidently steps onto the smooth surface of a bog. When he put his foot down it sank in.
And, then, it is as if a delicate finger traced out the line to be occupied by the spinal column, and moulded the contour of the body; pinching up the head at one end, the tail at the other, and fashioning flank and limb into due salamandrine proportions, in so artistic a way, that, after watching the process hour by hour, one is almost involuntarily possessed by the notion, that some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic, would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to perfect his work.
It was as the master-carpenter had remarked seven years before, he was always involuntarily saying, "Here I come look at me. I am Jean Jacques Barbille!" When Zoe reached out a hand to touch his arm, and raised her face as though to kiss him good-night, Jean Jacques drew back. "Not yet, Zoe," he said. "There are some things What is all this between you and that man?... I have seen.
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