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I cannot say that I advise the latter." Randal felt as a man feels after a severe fall, he was literally stunned. At length he faltered out, "Can you think, sir, that I should ever desert your fortunes, your party, your cause?" "My dear Leslie," replied the minister, "you are too young to have committed yourself to any men or to any party, except, indeed, in that unlucky pamphlet.
Some memory of her lost Virginia made her very tender toward the motherless girl. "May I?" Rosemary faltered. "Do you mean it?" Madame smiled and lifted her beautiful old face. Rosemary stooped and kissed her. "Mother," she said, for the first time in her life. "Dear Mother! Good-bye!" A Letter and a Guest
The fat adventurer faltered just within the gateway; then, with a truculent swagger, "I want my daughter," he declared vociferously. Brentwick peered mildly over his glasses, first at Calendar, then at Kirkwood. His glance lingered a moment on the young man's honest eyes, and swung back to Calendar.
He looked at her for a moment laughing, and suddenly her gaze faltered. There had been something new and forceful about Allen ever since he had come back from the war that had made Betty a little afraid of him. But she did not think any the less of him oh, no indeed! "I'll give you a dozen of them if you'll take them," he was saying ardently evidently in reference to the candies.
By the window, if you must know; but quite unseen. You see, I had no invitation." "I never thought you had " "Nor did I think you had till now." Puzzled, she faltered: "I don't understand " "Surely you don't wish me to believe my pretty Sofia has turned thief?" That stung her pride. She drew upon an unsuspected store of spirit, confronting him bravely.
When on a second and a third and a fourth morning, however, Dorothy had found Susan's figure barring the way, and had received the same distressed "He says he won't see no one, Miss Dorothy," from Susan's plainly troubled lips, Dorothy began to think Keith did mean to keep it up forever. "But what IS it, Susan?" she faltered. "Is he sick, really sick?" "I don't know, Miss Dorothy," frowned Susan.
But there are some things I might keep from her if I had to." She looked more closely at the letters, and when she saw that they were in the well-remembered hand of her mother she breathed more easily. "If he kept these it must be all right!" she faltered to herself. "I will call Aunt Mary." The two women, seeing dimly through their tears at times, went over the contents of the private safe.
Singular as it was that Pearson should return without being summoned, when she turned and found that he mysteriously stood inside the threshold again, as if she had called him, she felt a great sense of relief. "Pearson," she faltered, "I am rather upset by certain things which Captain Palliser has said. I am afraid I do not understand." She looked at him helplessly, not knowing what more to say.
Her eyes fell away from his face, they turned to Albemarle, who sat scowling again, and from him they flickered unsteadily to Phelips and Luttrell, and lastly, to Richard, who, very white and with set teeth, stood listening to the working of his ruin. "I... I do not know," she faltered at last. "Ah!" said Trenchard, drawing a deep breath. He turned to the Bench.
She then came down under the maples towards him, at first swiftly, and then more and more slowly, until finally she faltered to a stop. He quickened his own pace and came up to her with a "Good-morning" called to her and a lift of his hat. She returned neither salutation, and said, "I was coming to see you, Mr. Langbourne."
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