I noticed Miss Brentwood's shoulders moving convulsively, and for the moment I was angry, for I thought that she was laughing at Ernest.

And then I discovered that it was not laughter, but hysteria.

She was appalled by what she had done in bringing this firebrand before her blessed Philomath Club.
Colonel Van Gilbert did not notice the dozen men, with passion-wrought faces, who strove to get permission from him to speak.

His own face was passion-wrought.

He sprang to his feet, waving his arms, and for a moment could utter only incoherent sounds.