Then casting his eyes to the ground, in faltering accents, he continued-

The faint, faltering accents, struggling in death to give one more assurance of affection!

His last faltering accents whispered repeatedly a blessing on me-alas

Hence the blush upon the cheek-thefaltering accents-thetremulousness of limb, and feebleness of movement.

Would not my eyes betray me-myfaltering accents, my abashed looks, my flushed and burning cheeks?

With faltering accents Clara promised, while she still clung to her father in a transport of sorrow.

At length, in faltering accents he spoke:

"Nay," resumed I, in faltering accents, "jest not with my feelings.

"Tempt me not to thine own danger,-perhapsdestruction!" exclaimed Zanoni, in faltering accents.

But the words and faltering accents of the lover equally failed in subduing the inflexible, perverse mood of the haughty maiden.

"It just come into my 'ead to arsk," said the engineer, in faltering accents.

"Father," said Rosario, in faltering accents, "I am a woman!"

Thus it happened that she read a reference verse alone, in faltering accents, with the eyes of all the class upon her:

The old man listened silently till the priest, in faltering accents, added that the astrologer's wife had sent him, then he stammered:

Tressan shifted his position; he avoided the other's glance; he was visibly trembling, and when presently he spoke it was in faltering accents.

And if poor Edouard had seen the pale faces, and heard the faltering accents, it would have reconciled him to his broken arm almost.