"How can I?" fell in unconscious betrayal from her lips.

No doubt they see a great deal in each other's faces that we cannot,changes of color and expression as real as our own, blushes and sudden betrayals of feeling,just as these two canaries know what their single notes and short sentences and full song with this or that variation mean, though it is a mystery to us unplumed mortals.

Mr. Richard Venner was in an observing and analytical state of mind, it will be noticed, or he might perhaps have been touched with the innocent betrayals of the poor girl's chamber.

The momentary betrayal of womanhood and affection was passed, and this was the dreaded Sister Superior of the Convent School again.

The brief pause which followed his involuntary betrayal of discontent was broken by Ruth, who exclaimed, with a girlish enthusiasm that overpowered girlish bashfulness, "I think all the novels are splendid!

Already I knew that some feelingeither of friendship or sympathyhad impelled her to save me from immediate betrayal, but would she go even further?

Money was scarce, and the paper currencyan ill-omened device of Mahmud'swas depreciated, distrusted, and regarded as an imperial betrayal of confidence.

Subjection, oppression, starvation, haven't taught her enough: she must face betrayal too, of the most mischievous kindthe betrayal of well-meaning fools.

" "Oh!" exclaimed Aurora, inwardly ready for fierce tears, but with no outward betrayal save a trifle too much grace and an over-bright smile, "Monsieur is much mistaken; we are quite comfortable and happy, wanting nothing, eh, Clotilde?not even our rights, ha, ha!"

What this was remained to be seen, but that it amounted to a practical betrayal of her father and McMurtrie seemed fairly obvious from the way in which she had spoken.

I lay there with a consciousness of being on the very verge of some adventure, with the assurance, too, that I was to be of use once more, to play my part, to fling aside, thank God, that old cloak of apathetic disappointment, of selfish betrayal, of cynical disbelief.

Has the Government of India resigned by way of protest against the threatened, shameful betrayal of trust on the part of Mr. Lloyd George?

The tragedy, faintly foreshadowed from the first line, and gradually developed from Cyril's self-righteousness and irrepressible joy in Alma's unguarded betrayal of unconscious passion, has darkened the whole story.

Such untoward happenings had misled people into useless self-betrayal.

He did not disguise from me in the least that there was no crime that he had not committedmurder, rape, arson, immorality of the most hideous, sacrilege, the basest betrayal of his best friendshe was not only savage and outlaw, he was deliberate anarchist and murderer.

From the first to the last of our friendship, never by thought, or by word, or by deed, have I done amiss; there is no wrong doing, trifling or great, to make plain your hatred, or to excuse so vile a betrayal as this scorning of our love for a fresher face, this desertion of me, this proclaiming of our secret.

For here was a direct, unconscious betrayal of a world of inner purposes and claims her husband recognized while he kept them almost wholly to himself.

"He had, in this manner, for six years, pursued, with very great success, the objects of his mission, when these were abruptly terminated by his foul betrayal into the hands of his enemies in 1592."

At that moment Mrs. Finnegan's cuckoo clock, sounding distinctly through the thin flooring, warbled twice with a voice of friendly betrayal.

" Eternal shame to those who make use of any authority to force the secrets of a generous heart, cutting off from it every alternative but that of a loathed deceit, or still more hateful, and scarcely less guilty, betrayal!