She came out of the arbor almost as if she were going to throw herself into my arms.
That is her excuse," said Mrs. Prest, half-sententiously and yet also somewhat as if she were ashamed of making a speech so little in the real tone of Venice.
My interlocutress appeared incapable of grasping more than one clause in any proposition, and she declared quickly, eagerly, as if she were answering my whole speech: "I am not in the least fond of Venice.
But perhaps if she were to leave the room vacant, we might not be invited.
The girl raged and battled with all the force of her youth and fulness of life, until by little and little her passionate exclamations trailed off into broken murmurs as if she were in pain.
It was wonderful to see the fury of the contest in the girl, and the bodily struggle she made as if she were rent by the Demons of old.
The little creature seemed so young in his eyes, that there were moments when he found himself thinking of her, if not speaking to her, as if she were a child.
She sat, turned away from the whole length of the apartment, as if she were lonely of her own haughty choice.
Sitting with her hands laid separately upon the desk, and the tall cabinet towering before her, she looked as if she were performing on a dumb church organ.
I sat looking at Peggotty for some time, in a reverie on this supposititious case: whether, if she were employed to lose me like the boy in the fairy tale, I should be able to track my way home again by the buttons she would shed.
Ham made a motion with his head, as if she were outside.
They both spoke as if she were ill; in a soft, suppressed tone that was plainly heard, although it hardly rose above a whisper.
By nine o'clock the Euphrosyne had taken up her position in the middle of a great bay; she dropped her anchor; immediately, as if she were a recumbent giant requiring examination, small boats came swarming about her.
She became silent, and sat with her chin on her hands, looking very intent, as if she were facing a real problem which had to be discussed between them.
She looked up to see Mrs. Thornbury standing beside her, with lines drawn upon her forehead, and her lips parted as if she were about to ask a question.
She searched up into her face as if she were trying to read what kind of character was concealed behind the face.
Florence would sometimes look no more at this, and bursting into tears would hide behind the curtain as if she were frightened, or would hurry from the window.
With this remonstrance, young Spitfire, whose real name was Susan Nipper, detached the child from her new friend by a wrench--as if she were a tooth.
Aunt Hannah's voice sounded as if she were trying to convince herself--of something.
It looked almost as if she were reminding them of what she had done that day.
She thought with mortification, too, that it did look as if she were not the proper wife for an artist if she were going to feel like this--always.
The repetition was so vehement that it sounded almost as if she were trying to convince herself as well as Bertram of something that was not true.
But I am so devoted to the countess; if she were my own child I couldn't love her more.
Mrs. Bread dropped her wrinkled eyelids as if she were curtseying; but the curtsey stopped there; the occasion was too grave.
She looked up at him as if she were thinking of something to say.
I have served her faithfully this many a year; but if she were to die to-morrow, I believe, before Heaven I shouldn't shed a tear for her.
She looked at his back, and wondered what would happen if she were to go up to him and fling her arms about him.
Susy's independence and self-sufficiency had been among her chief attractions; ifshe were to turn into an echo their delicious duet ran the risk of becoming the dullest of monologues.
How could it be otherwise, if she were to return again to her old dependence on Ellie Vanderlyn, Ursula Gillow, Violet Melrose?
If she were brought to me now, I should talk to her very gently.
If she were older, she might earn her living; but it cannot be done at that age.
She got excited and clasped her hands as if she were praying to me!
And then my wife began to talk aloud, as if she were thinking, and you can see her trickery.
She uttered a cry, as if she were in pair; and said: "Oh!
Last of all came La Rapet, bent almost double, as if she wished to prostrate herself; she walked with folded hands, as if she were in church.
The girl was so frightened or so tired that she was only prevented from falling by the iron chain about her waist, and there she hung, as if she were dead.
Of a sudden she grew deadly white, and fell to the ground as if she were dead.
These reflections did not remove her own alarm, for she had been too much terrified to be easily composed, and felt as if she were hemmed in by a legion of Quilps, and the very air itself were filled with them.
He looked at her as if she were a spirit--she might have been for all the look of earth she had--and trembled more and more.
If she were sitting in the church, they perhaps might peep in softly at the open door; but they never spoke to her, unless she rose and went to speak to them.
Such was Aislie Gourlay, whom, in order to attain the absolute subjugation of Lucy Ashton's mind, her mother thought it fitting to place near her person.
Make a' the confusion ye can; but be sure ye keep out the strange servant.
For she did know perfectly well that if she were to tell Lootie what she had been about, the more she went on to tell her, the less would she believe her.
Her face was very pale, with red streaks in it, and she looked as if she were going to shake her; but Irene said nothing--only waited to hear what should come next.
If she wereto see me sitting spinning here, she wouldn't believe me, either.
Gladys lifted a fold of her cape and drew it about her as if she were cold.
Yet you act as if her love were a degrading influence in your life, as if she were a bad woman instead of one who ought to inspire a man to do and be his best.
She felt as if she were struggling in a great sea--the sea of his love for her--struggling to reach the safety of the shore.
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