at her mother 's farewell kisskiss, a touchtouchin her throat when the cars clackedclackby the flour mill where her father worked by the day , a pathetic sighsighas the familiar green environs of the village passedpassin review , and the threads which bound her so lightly to girlhood and home were irretrievably brokenbreak.
And Beth lookedlookat her rough hands with a sighsighthat any one could hear that time .
Though my mother refusedrefuseto move it to my father , yet I heardhearafterwards that she reportedreportall the discoursediscourseto him , and that my father , after showing a great concernconcernat it , saidsayto her , with a sighsigh, “ That boy might be happy if he would stay at home ; but if he goes abroad , he will be the most miserable wretch that ever was born : I can give no consent to it . ”
Though he gave a little sighsighat the sightsightof his wife 's sofa , he did not hesitate to sitsitdown upon it , and even to drawdrawit a little out of its position , which , as Lucilla describeddescribeafterwards , was like a knife going into her heart .
But altogether all that did not amount to much either in the way of gain or prospects ; so that when Winnie announced her engagement to Mr Verloc her mother could not help wonderingwonder, with a sighsighand a glanceglancetowards the scullery , what would become of poor Stephen now .