His hand closed firmly, sustainingly, upon her elbow.

" She put out a quick hand, and he took it and held it firmly, sustainingly, while he went on.

In imagination I saw again the carp with brown raisin sauce which my aunt prepared so sustainingly for Friday eve; I saw once more the steamed mutton with garlic and horseradish, which might have raised the dead, and the soup with dreamily swimming dumplings in itand my soul melted like the notes of an enamored nightingaleand since then I have been eating in the restaurant of my friend Doña Schnapper-Elle.