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.

"I ran from Loneli to Elvira, but I was still able to hear poor Loneli's sobs, for she was awfully afraid to go home.

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

The sound of stifled sobbing in the room reached her ear, and, pushing back the bed-curtains, and leaning forward to look, she saw her maid, Willett, sitting with her back to the wall, crying bitterly, and striving, as it seemed, to stifle her sobs with her apron, which was wrapped about her face.

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.

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

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.

Poor Tilly checked her sobs by a vigorous effort; but tears continued to flow, and she fumbled vainly for her handkerchief to dry them.

Sir Edward seated himself by the study fire, and Milly stood before him, one little hand resting upon his knee and the other holding her tiny handkerchief to her eyes, and vainly trying to restrain her sobs.

he gasped, trying to smother the sobs.

"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.

There were sad, sobbing farewells spokenthe kindly night covering the tears, and the loud neighing of the horses drowning the sobs.

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 thrust it into his hand, and then, her errand done, began to gather chips together to make a fire, choking down hysteric sobs.

" The "little doxy" felt strongly inclined to cry, but she kept back the sobs and said, "You know, John, how sullen and almost hateful you were before, when you were bewitched after those mean stocks.

But as her husband left the room, banging the door after him, she caught her breath several times in a futile effort to stay the sobs, and then broke down and cried, a very much abused young woman.

"Who?What?" Mr. Nugent, incapable of reply, put his head on the table and beat the air frantically with his hand, while gasping sobs rent his tortured frame.

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

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.

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.

"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.