In his large, brown eyes an expression of moving melancholy was established; a nervous tremulousness almost twitched his refined lips, which, to my surprise, were not concealed by the universal moustache,indeed, the smooth chin and symmetrically trimmed mutton-chop whiskers, in the orthodox English mode, showed that the man shaved.

At length he said, with a slight tremulousness in his voice, "Does nothing suggest to you who she is, Phil?" I turned round to look at him with profound astonishment, but he turned away from my look.

Though she was not giving way before him, her attitude, in its steadiness, reflected distress in a bowstrung tremulousness.

This, on the other hand, I said to myself, was not misery; for was not I seated here, with a certain tremulousness about me, it was true, after all the experiences which, supposing them even to have been but dreams, I had come through,a tremulousness very comprehensible, and not at all without hope?

"Mary," he said, with a little tremulousness of voice, "it is quite natural that you should ask me; but, my dear, I am not at all prepared to answer.

"About what, then?" I persist, in a voice through whose counterfeit playfulness I myself too plainly hear the unconquerable tremulousness; "may not I hear?or is it a secret?" He does not answer; it seems to me that he is considering what response to make.