She was sighing and groaning in a spasmodic devotion.

She was "seeking strength from above to do her whole duty," she would have told you.

She was "agonizing" in prayer for her daughter, and she contrived that her stage-whisper praying should now and then reach the ears of its devoted object.
Humphreys remained seated, pretending to read the copy of "Josephus," but watching the coming storm with the interest of a connoisseur.

And while he remained Jonas determined to stay, to keep Julia in countenance, and he beckoned to Cynthy to stay also.

And Samuel Anderson, who loved his daughter and feared his wife, fled like a coward from the coming scene.