And then he paused: he was trying to say something of his own true personal regard for her, but he hardly knewhow to express it.
He hardly knew what he was about, and felt almost as though he were in a dream.
He hardly knew, himself, what or whom he feared, but he knew that he was afraid of something.
He hardly knew how to frame his little request in language sufficiently modest.
He hardly knew where to begin, and he hardly knew where he should end.
Such being his feelings, he hardly knew how to take part with Eleanor against the archdeacon, or with the archdeacon against Eleanor.
He hardly knewwhat it was that he did not like,--but he felt that there was something wrong.
She was in her room when it was brought to her, and for an hour after reading it hardly knew how to see her guest and friend, Madame Goesler.
With what object he had called he hardly knew himself; but he thought that he intended to assure the Duchess that he was not a candidate for office, and that he must deprecate her interference.
This other foot, the near fore-foot, was examined by the groom, who declared himself to be so flurried by the lameness of such a horse at such a time, that he hardly knew what he saw or what he did not see.
Of course he knew that she was joking, but he hardly knew how to take her joke.
In truth he was so moved that he hardly knew how to speak at all.
I was not, I hardly knew why I was not, quite ready to quit America while these troubles threatened.
I hardly knew what it was, for I had never worn it; to please Mrs. Sandford I took it out now.
With no life left in me for anything, I strolled out into the sunshine; aimlessly at first; then led by a secret inclination I hardly knew or questioned, my steps slowly made their way round by the avenue to the stables.
I hardly knew what it was to which I was now invited.
He was very angry,--though he hardly knew why or with whom.
Such was his fear that at the moment he hardly knew what he was to say.
He hardly knewwhat it was that he had dreaded, but he had feared something much worse than that.
I wished to review my life, and examine myself, but I hardly knew where to begin.
We hardly knew how to steer, as we did not know the position of the island which we had left, and now the wind heading us, we hauled up on the larboard tack, with our head to the northward and eastward.
My prayers were confused--I hardly knew what I said--but I knew that they were intended to be grateful to Heaven for my unexpected preservation from an ignominious death.
He was thinking of other things, and yet hehardly knew of what he was thinking.
Something more than the mere joy of the season was making him glad; he hardly knew what it was, for it appeared to him that circumstances were untoward.
When they came to me at Carlisle I was so confused that I hardly knew what to tell them.
My heart gave a great leap, I hardly knew why, and the blood rushed into my face, something caught in my throat and I gave a short, hysterical cough.
I wanted to prove to him that two could play at his little game and I hardly knew how to match him.
I was half frightened at his earnest voice and serious expression, I hardly knew what to answer him.
Here we deposited our sundry parcels and awaited some crisis, we hardly knew what.
He had found her under the gas-light at a fashionable gathering, and was taken with her, he hardly knew why.
I hardly knew how it happened, but one afternoon when we were a little to the northward of Bermuda, and should have kept a lookout for squalls, we were favored with a visit from one of a most energetic character.
How long he remained so he hardly knew; but he did not wake until a gentle step came on the stairs.
They were all cheery people, whom Jimmy liked well enough as a general thing, but to-day their chatter bored him; he hardly knew how to contain himself for impatience.
The double dose of brandy and his own agitation had excited him; he drew her over to the fire with him; he hardly knew what he was doing.
He turned and went down the steps to the street; but when he reached the pavement he stood still again, as if he hardly knew what he was doing.
Osmond, temperate in all ways from necessity, hardly knew how he should have felt about it if desires and delight had presented themselves to him as companions, not as foes.
The next moment, he hardly knew how it was, they were there by the fire, and he had accepted her.
Electra, in her worship of the conduct of life, hardly knew how to express strong emotions without offense to her finer instincts.
He wanted to say something to the effect that Osmond was playing the biggest of all games, with the visible universe against him; but he hardly knew how to put it.
He was ever at hand to hear the half-formed cry of the soul, the whisper it hardly knew it gave.
David, meanwhile, had so carefully kept all talk of politics from his scholars that theyhardly knew that an election was near.
He hardly knew himself; he was like Bothwell then, and other burly fellows in history; and he was rather pleased to find himself so.
Our courtship was short; indeed, I hardly knew that I loved him until he spoke and asked me to give him myself.
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