She would not go back a step, nor desert those who were so anxious to know, though her heart fluttered almost as it had used to do before she died, what with her longing to tell them, and knowing that she had no more to say.

But when she took up the letter again, with trembling hands, her heart fluttered high and sick, and she saw the words through blurred eyes.

I'd rather stay here" There Amy checked herself and tried to hide her face behind her coffee-cup, for Casimer looked up in a way that made her heart flutter and her cheeks burn.

Her heart fluttered a signal of despair.

With parted lips she listened, till the moonlight filled her eyes, and her heart fluttered softly, and her throat was warm.

" A sob came up in Katherine's throat, and her heart fluttered wildly, for she was thinking of that dark secret from the past which her father had told her about, and she was wondering if the work of to-day would in any sense help to wipe off that old score of wrongdoing which stood to her father's account.

She had seen Monohan only once since the day Fyfe choked him, and then only to exchange the barest civilitiesand to feel her heart flutter at the message his eyes telegraphed.

She felt her heart flutter, her consciousness swim, her old terror returning.

Her heart fluttered violently, her breath came quickly.

Her heart fluttered in an anguish of self-reproach, and her eyes strayed as if seeking help.

She was indeed most anxious to behold him, and though she was aware that her heart fluttered not slightly as the moment was at hand, she commanded her gaze, and her eyes met his, although she was doubtful whether he might choose or care to recognise her.

'For what?' 'Do you not know?' 'No,' she muttered, her heart fluttering strangely.

AMOROUS ANTITHESES When a Marguerite plucks the petals of a marguerite, muttering "he loves mehe loves me not," her heart flutters in momentary anguish with every "not," till the next petal soothes it again.

The whole aspect was so distinctly mannish that her heart fluttered ridiculously in its loneliness.

"I must admit it; I have a great desire," and her face grew rose-hued and her heart fluttered with the bold words she was about to utter "Ah, thou dost wish for, or have a desire to enter the" "The distinguished service of a Lady of Honour."