Hurstwood moved his toe the least bit.
There was another place in which Laura was to rise and, with a sense of impending disaster, say, sadly: "I wish you hadn't said that, Pearl.

You know the old proverb, 'Call a maid by a married name.'" The lack of feeling in the thing was ridiculous.

Carrie did not get it at all.

She seemed to be talking in her sleep.

It looked as if she were certain to be a wretched failure.