Joan turned and locked the cabin door, and Kazan heard a sob in her throat as they followed the man down to the river.

The next instant she gave a little sob.

He put the children in the mill and worked them almost to death; eveneven Deanie," she choked back a sob.

There, there," as Laura tried to stifle a fresh sob, "that's right, take my handkerchief,yours is sopping wet, andMy goodness, there comes Maud Aplinshe must not see us sniffing and sobbing like this, she'll say we've had a quarrel.

" Eveena struggled hard so far to suppress her sobs as to give an answer.

She checked the rising sob that preluded a storm of rage and tears, stayed the frenzied impulse to shriek, to beat on the doors, to do anything that might scare the villains; she sat frozen, staring, motionless.

Then, seeing every well remembered thing in its appointed place,all became suddenly blurred, and dim, and, snatching her hand from Small Porges' clasp, she uttered a great, choking sob, and covered her face.

She fought to control herself, a sob in her throat.

"Thank you," he said, repressing a sob, and he went down the steps with a choking in his throat and a pain at his heart.

She staggered up to them, panting, exhausted, her breath coming in gulping sobs.

" Almost the very words Violet had said to her, thought Billie, as she tried to swallow a sob and only succeeded in turning it into a funny little cough.

" She had to stop there to master a sob.

It is much to asktoo much; but if you will, I think my father's son and he whom you have honored by caring for, may yet prove a little worthy" The words brought a sob to her throat; she threw herself back on the bed.

What would life be in the Home without Jane? Polly did not ask herself these questions in exactly these words, but she felt the desolate possibility that had been suggested to her; and it was so appalling that it quite overpowered her flare of temper, and stopped her sobs and cries as effectually as Jane could have desired.

And strangling a passionate sob, the lawyer sank again into his chair, covering his face.

She tried to speak, but only bursting sobs came from her breast.

The colonel joked; his lips were crisped by shudders, his laughter resembled sobs.

Bright, gay, enraptured, full of sunshine and glamour, like the summer day around Stockholm, it is traversed by a strain of melancholy like a smile through tears, the laugh which conceals a sob.

But whoso else in pleasure findeth sense, Or in this wretched life doeth take delight, Let him he banisht farre away from hence; 10 Ne let the Sacred Sisters here be hight*, Though they of sorrowe heavilie can sing, For even their heavie song would breede delight; But here no tunes save sobs and grones shall ring.

"Not so, in soothin very sooth," she gasped 'twixt sobs of terror, "nought but a poor maid am Iand the man thrice sought me out and would have shamed me but that I escaped, for that I am very swift of foot" "She lured me into the bog with devil-fires!" cried Gurth.

" They all wept bitterly while he thus talked to them; but he restrained his sobs, though it was evident his heart was well nigh breaking.

All he heard was the occasional faint wail of some infant, above which now and then rose a heavy, restrained sob, coming perhaps from some mother who was waiting in one of the adjoining compartments.

" Sobs rumbled up through him, the terrific sobs that men weep.

He let his dejected head fall among the papers, he wept endlessly, shaken by shuddering sobs.

For a second Sheila's head filled with a fog of terror and then came a homely little begging bark, just the throaty, snuffling sob of a homeless puppy.