He understood better than before his little daughter's sudden curiosity about Silverthorns and Lady Mildred, and her incipient discontent.
But it is very hard upon me too, though perhaps it seems selfish to say so; for I am too old to like starting off to the ends of the earth in this sudden fashion.
And then, as a sudden idea struck him, "Fancy its coming after all through the female branch.
And all of a sudden I seemed to remember where I was, and all that papa had told us came back into my mind, and I thought of the tower room up-stairs and the poor ghost crying all alone.
A sudden sinking of the heart foretold the answer.
It's so suddenthat I can hardly believe it myself.
For since the daughter's sudden leap into maturity, the relations between the two had been strained, the instinct of sex rivalry overmastering such shadowy maternal impulses as had outlived Diantha's babyhood.
A guilty constraint settled upon the gathering so fluent a moment before, and psychologically considered, there was food for reflection in the sudden embarrassed silence.
A sudden harassing suspicion assailed the target of Susan's eloquence, and no sooner had it entered his mind than a dozen details instantly corroborated it.
With the sudden silence, clearness came back to his mind, and he remembered word for word the little speech he had rehearsed so often during the last week.
A sudden noise of voices and tramplings broke out somewhere out of sight.
The next question camesudden as a shot fired: "You were at Fotheringay?
Then, without sound or warning, except for the footsteps on the paving-stones and the sudden darkening of the sunshine on the floor, there came the figure for which all looked.
Marjorie felt a sudden pang; for she had never forgotten the one she had set eyes on in the Tower.
All was done without ostentation, yet without concealment, for Padley was a solitary place, and had no fear, at this time, of a sudden descent of the authorities.
She told him presently of the sudden turn for the worse early that morning as she herself fell asleep by the bedside; and a little of what had passed during the day.
Then, in an instant, he was called back, by the sudden crash of horns and drums playing all together.
And all this was mixed with sudden wails from his wife, sudden graspings of his hands by hers.
The climax came in a sudden thump of a pike foot within a yard of his head, so imminent, that for an instant he thought it was at his own panel.
Father Campion stared at him a moment, and, as he stared, Marjorie heard Mr. Babington utter a sudden exclamation.
Well, all of a sudden an awful flash of lightning came and the thunder was so loud that we were all most stunned.
Well, we were riding real slow in Pa's automobile, the nameless wonder, when all of a sudden I heard something that scared me.
The surface sheet in expanding under sudden heat detaches itself in large, leaflike layers.
The snow was so utterly dry that it obeyed the lightest breath; and whatever there was of motion in the air, could not amount to more than a cat's-paw's sudden reach.
And in a sudden panic as it was, it did the most foolish thing it possibly could do: it struck a line parallel to the trail.
Half intentionally I conjured up the vision of an infinitely lonesome old age for myself, and again the sudden palpitation in my veins nearly prompted me to send my horses into a gallop.
The words, the man's look, broughtsudden recognition.
The audience sat in utter silence, wondering what could be the reason for this sudden apparition.
A sudden sense of the passage of time made him hurry to the roof of the rear building of the house at No.
Grace was on the point of refusing, when a sudden idea came to her.
He had proceeded but a few steps, when the three occupants of the room were startled by a series of sudden and agonizing cries.
But hissudden interest in Ruth Morton, the charming motion picture star, seemed rather incomprehensible to her.
She determined to take a train leaving at half past three, and as Ruth would not return from the studio until later, she called her up on the telephone, and told her of her sudden determination.
And then, as he revolved the problem in his mind, a sudden light came to him.
His grin drove from Grace's mind her suddenand unaccustomed jealousy.
She appeared to be greatly ashamed of her sudden collapse, and kept insisting, in spite of her evident weakness, that she was quite all right again, and wanted to go.
Then he experienced a sudden and most mortifying shock.
All of a sudden I heard a strange rasping noise, and I woke up, with the feeling that there was someone in the room.
He sat up withsudden astonishment as he read the contents of the message.
Storms that come up sudden never last very long, and it's been good and bright all day.
With his boot the gambler threw Tintoretto six feet away, where he landed on his feet and turned about growling and barking in puppywise questioning of this sudden manoeuvre.
The happy lover set off to go and see her immediately, but on the way a sudden thought struck him, and so he turned back in order to thank beautiful Wanda, as he had promised, on his knees.
And he added, with a look of sudden ferocity: "She understood it, at any rate!
It came in sudden gusts, more parching and more deadly than the burning wind of the desert, and again Ulrich shouted: "Gaspard!
The old woman took her hands out of the water and asked with sudden sympathy: "Is she as bad as all that?
She felt an infinite longing for happiness, for some sudden demonstration of tenderness, for a revelation of divine poesy.
The relief of the two women wassudden and unaffected.
I saw you coming and was prepared; but generally--as I have something the matter with my heart--a sudden joy like this is dangerous.
A sudden summons from his patient at the loggers' camp the next day brought him again to the fateful redwoods.
Perhaps it was this that put a sudden hauteur into the young girl's expression as she stared at Miss Avondale's departing figure.
As the stranger's eyes followed him and lingered with a singular curiosity on Randolph's dress, he remembered with a sudden alarm that he was wearing the suit of the missing man.
And even that magic portmanteau which had brought him all this happiness, that, too,--but he gave a sudden start.
Without knowing why, Randolph felt a sudden aversion to him, which was deepened when the man, lifting his head, met Randolph's eyes with a pair of shifting yet aggressive ones.
He could not tell whether his sudden resolution was an instinct or the obstinacy that often comes to an awkward man.
A sudden outbreak of laughter here shook the room, and even drowned the storm outside; again and again it rose, as the colonel staggered gaspingly to his feet.
The brief wet winter was nearly spent; the long dry season was due, although there was still the rare beauty of cloud scenery in the steel-blue sky, and the sudden return of quick but transient showers.
I never thought o' that," said Wynbrook, with one of his characteristic sudden illuminations.
The case was one of suddennervous shock--but this, with his knowledge of her indolent temperament, seemed almost absurd.
Charoba shrieked and fell away, her hand Still clasping his, a sudden blush o'erspread Her pallid humid cheek, and disappeared.
But at twelve o’clock there was a sudden hush; and hardly had the rollers stopped their rolling, before Clary had left her place and gone to that corner of the pile of printed sheets where she knew the words must be.
Then, in a sudden passion of grief and excitement he caught me up and threw me from him as far as he could; and I, who had been too proud to associate with red cents, now fell to the very bottom of an inglorious heap of mud.
The face that turned to her held desperation and sudden hope.
Marcia's interest in sight-seeing had come to a sudden halt since the afternoon of Tre Fontane.
His suddenappearance had been disconcerting, and her usual self-assurance seemed to be wandering to-night.
You don't suppose,' she added in sudden alarm, that the stiletto was poisoned, do you?
Bianca had known the boy in his pre-villa days, and, if anything, was more wide-eyed than Pietro on his sudden promotion.
But the sudden revulsion of feeling had swept her away.
We are,' the young man went on with a sudden inspiration, 'what you call in English, citizens of the world.
Sybert whirled around from the window and faced him with black brows and a sudden flaring of passion in his eyes.
With a sudden motion he threw away his cigarette over the balustrade and immediately lit another.
A sudden wave swept over him of that strange, irrational, romantic love of fatherland which is fundamental underneath the polish, underneath the wickedness, in every man in every land.
He was struggling with a sudden temptation which almost overmastered him.
Sybert glanced up in sudden surprise, but she did not look at him; she was smiling across at her uncle.
As she looked far off across the plain so mournfully beautiful in its desolation, a sudden rush of feeling swept over her, a rush of that insane love of Italy which has engulfed so many foreigners in the waters of Lethe.
And then, as a sudden recollection flashed across her, she whirled about toward Sybert, her glance divided between indignation and contempt.
It was like the rough and sudden blast that sweeps tempest--like over a glassy lake and turns its calm waters into trembling waves and dark shadows.
Those who have for a moment fainted from some sudden cause have partially realized this misery in the anguish caused for an instant by the first breath that accompanies returning consciousness.
The wind came in sudden and unequal gusts, now causing the clipper to careen till her topsail yards almost dipped, and then permitting her to rise once more to the upright position.
His hands were clasped across his stomach, his eyelids drooped, and he seemed about to doze off, when of a sudden he caught sight of Casanova, and a great change took place in him.
In her countenance he could read a sudden hostility, a protest, a trace of disgust.
Never mind," said the Marchese, with a sudden assumption of amiability which was far from congenial.
Warming up by degrees, he entered into details of personal history, so that of a sudden his own figure appeared in the centre of the canvas, filling it with life.
Then I gave a sigh, and felt a sudden contraction of my heart.
As I spoke I laid my hand on the dark-blue dress, and all of a sudden I grew to hate it.
The fire gave it all of a sudden a sort of English look.
Father gazed at me, and all of a suddenhis manner altered.
Then all of a sudden Fortune's wheel turned and we were--I suppose--rich.
The river was more dangerous here; it ran swifter, the eddies were more sudden and violent.
The same suddenaccidents of ground, a similar dominating site above the plain, and the same superposition of one rank of society over another, are to be observed in both.
I saw one of these mild formidable servants of the glebe, who took a sudden interest in Modestine and me.
Monastrians, of all shades of thought in politics, had agreed in threatening me with many ludicrous misadventures, and with sudden death in many surprising forms.
All of a sudden we came round a corner, and there, in a little green round the church, was a bevy of girls in Parisian costumes playing croquet.
She was wholly occupied in this employment, without a thought of danger, when all of a sudden the king of the buffalos came dashing up with his herd of followers.
The moccasins seemed to know his thoughts; for just then they gave a sudden leap, slipped away from his feet, and left the Owl flat upon his back!
This sudden vanishing and reappearance occurred at every tempest.
They returned to the village, and no man was the wiser as to the strange and sudden vanishing of Wassamo.
He looked at the glassy water, and more than once the thought to end his griefs by casting himself in its depths came upon him with such sudden force that only by severe self-control was he able to turn his steps in another direction.
He would interrupt his discourse at times with sudden groans, and say: "Oh, how shamefully they are treating it.
Then with a sudden blow of his war-club the giant changed White Feather into a dog, in which form he followed his enemy to the lodge.
It is past midnight,--we have been asleep, and are wakened by the sudden bursting of the storm.
The growth of the place, which had been considerable, came to a sudden stand-still.
The party have come from central Iowa to make this their future home, preferring the climate of this region, where the changes of temperature are not so sudden and variable.
This suddenchange was in no small degree influenced by an edition of "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography" which was published in Edinburgh about this time.
He may have denied himself many things, and his seemingly sudden success may be the result of years of hard work, but the world looks in and says: "He is lucky.
Who would not feel the powerful pressure of responsibility, and when at last the too sudden application of a break parted the cable, and it wholly disappeared from view, the shock was too much for the stoutest nerves.
Soon they heard the sound of a sudden struggle, a muffled, broken cry, and a heavy fall.
There was a sudden signal, a single word spoken, and the ball was snapped and passed to Sampson.
Arlington had partly risen to his feet, and the sudden leap of the horse flung him backward over the seat to the ground.
In a sudden fine spurt he was at the head of the horse.
A sudden desire came upon him to stray deep into the woods and hills and seek to renew the old-time friendship and confidence with nature and the wild things he had once been able to call around him.
As he lay thus a sudden wild yell echoed through the corridors, followed by a commotion.
Of a sudden he stopped beyond the table, across which he glared at Chester, who had lighted a fresh cigarette.
The agitation over Arlington's fight to get on to the athletic committee and his sudden and amazing resignation from it had died out.
Think how sad I should be if--" The thought produced a sudden caress, a sudden glisten in her grey eyes.
The childish words evoked a quick horror, why, I cannot tell; but a sudden vision of myself as I should be in that lonely room after the dull report rose up and blinded me.
I don't believe it," exclaimed Boy's mother in sudden pitiful emotion.
The calm deliberation of the last was so evidently imitative that Boy's mother smiled, despite a suddenpain at her heart.
Surely, since the ice melted visibly during the sudden hush which fell upon the jostling crowd.
A sudden fear of the solitude and silence of the place fell upon me.
The answer was feminine and disconcerting; a sudden storm of tears.
Just at that moment, however, one of those sudden alarms which for three months kept the men and officers before Delhi on the alert by day and night broke up the company, and so Joe Banks' loss passed out of most minds.
On a sudden she snatched her hand away and ran back to the piano.
He began in the most strangely sudden way by asking: "Why should there be any fear of discovery, when every possible care had been taken to prevent it?
After reading it he predicted the event that might be expected, in two words:--Sudden death.
The rest of the day passed in vain speculations on Philip's motive for thissudden departure.
The sudden movement disordered the nightdress over her bosom and showed the miniature portrait of a man, hung round her neck.
The sudden brightness of the flame struck my aching eyes, as if it had been a blow from a knife.
I had seen people look as she was looking now, when they suffered under some sudden pain.
