 Hatchets and crowbars against the yard-gates: they are forcing them. Are you afraid?" "No; but my heart throbs fast; I have a difficulty in standing: I will sit down. Do you feel unmoved?" "Hardly that — but I am glad I came: we shall see what transpires...  Shirley, by Currer Bell - Page 196by Charlotte Brontë - 1849Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Brontë - English literature - 1872 - 608 pages
...; I have a difficulty in standing : I will sit down. Do you feel unmoved ? " " Hardly that — but I am glad I came : we shall see what transpires with...mute stars, and these whispering trees, whose report °ur friends will not come to gather." " Shirley — Shirley, the gates are down ! That crash was like... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 610 pages
...you feel unmoved ? " " Hardly that — but I am glad I came : we shall see what transpires with ouT own eyes : we are here on the spot, and none know...whose report our friends will not come to gather." " Shirley — Shirley, the gates are down ! That crash was like the felling of great trees. Now they... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1893 - 376 pages
...; I have a difficulty in standing : I will sit down. Do you feel unmoved ? " " Hardly that — but I am glad I came : we shall see what transpires with...whose report our friends will not come to gather." " Shirley — Shirley, the gates are down ! That crash was like the felling of great trees. Now they... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - English literature - 1896 - 382 pages
...; I have a difficulty in standing : I will sit down. Do you feel unmoved ? " " Hardly that — but I am glad I came : we shall see what transpires with...whose report our friends will not come to gather." " Shirley — Shirley, the gates are down ! That crash was like the felling of great trees. Now they... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 370 pages
...; I have a difficulty in standing : I will sit down. Do you feel unmoved ? " " Hardly that — but I am glad I came : we shall see what transpires with...rush on the stage, we stand alone with the friendly eight, its mute stars, and these whispering trees, whose report our friends will not come to gather."... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - 1912 - 610 pages
...; I have a difficulty in standing : I will sit down. Do you feel unmoved ? " " Hardly that — but I am glad I came : we shall see what transpires with...Instead of amazing the curate, the clothier, and the corn- dealer with a romantic rush on the stage, we stand alone with the friendly night, its mute stars,... | |
 | Mackenzie Bell - American fiction - 1927 - 528 pages
...; I have a difficulty in standing ; I will sit down. Do you feel unmoved ? " " Hardly that — but I am glad I came ; we shall see what transpires with...whose report our friends will not come to gather." " Shirley — Shirley, the gate is down ! " That crash was like the felling of great trees. " Now they... | |
 | Mackenzie Bell - American fiction - 1927 - 486 pages
...; I have a difficulty in standing ; I will sit down. Do you feel unmoved ? " " Hardly that — but I am glad I came ; we shall see what transpires with our own eyes ; we are here on the spot, arid none know it. Instead of amazing the curate, the clothier, and the corn-dealer with a romantic... | |
 | Barbara Leah Harman - Literary Collections - 1998 - 248 pages
...why Shirley says, as she becomes for Caroline (and for us) the main narrator of the battles action, "I am glad I came: we shall see what transpires with...whose report our friends will not come to gather" (334-35). From Shirley's point of view, the women's courage, combined with their self-restraint, has... | |
 | John Plotz - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 282 pages
...but that purpose explicitly prevents direct action: "I am glad I came," says the intrepid Shirley. "We shall see what transpires with our own eyes: we are here on the spot, and none know it" (334). To be there and none know it: the text has begun to define a new role that the presence of a... | |
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