It seemed to him that he could never bear to think of the night when Anne had heard his stammerings through, and had merely listened, and in listening had been unreasonably beautiful.

It would conceal possible stammerings.

She turned quite red, and hurried off stammering: "Thanks, Monsieur Jean, I thank you very much.

I will interpret this stammering; I will interpret the grumblings, the murmurs, the tumults of crowds, the complaints ill-pronounced, and all these cries of beasts that, through ignorance and through suffering, man is forced to utter ...

But Argemone did not remark the stammering: the new thoughts startled and pained her; but there was a daring grace about them.