Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
" I have not, " replied M. d'Anquetil, " those scruples which intimidate the crowd of ordinary men, and which I consider good only to stop the timorous and restrain the wretched" .
Finding nobody there, I past on to the next; But I must own, I was a little timorous at going in, for this was the very room where Donna Elvira used to sleep.
I want you to fix an hour, because I am weak, and may otherwise try to get out of it'. She added a little artificial laugh, which showed how timorous her resolution was still.
Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.
But in another moment she seemed to have descended from her womanly eminence to helpless and timorous girlhood;and he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself.
On reaching the place and going upstairs she found that all was quiet in the children's room, and called to the landlady in timorous tones to please bring up the tea-kettle and something for their breakfast.