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But Stuart, this big, raw-boned, healthy, red-faced individual, was typically British in build, in gesture, and in action, and when he spoke just as typically an offspring of the British peoples. Blunt, direct, uncouth almost at times in his speech, he couldn't, had he attempted to speak German which he did at times, and could make himself understood have aped the guttural accents of the Teuton.
I have made such dispositions as I thought wisest; but one cannot foresee everything; if there is anything that does not seem good, it will of course be altered." The favor of the assembly was plainly with him, and the prince's accents became more firm.
"What they see in 'im!" whispered the astounded Mr. Thompson to his wife. "And did you marry the beautiful girl in the photograph?" demanded Mrs. Boxer, in trembling accents. "I did," said her husband. "Hussy," cried Mrs. Boxer. "I married her," said Mr. Boxer, considering "I married her at Camberwell, in eighteen ninety-three." "Eighteen ninety-three!" said his wife, in a startled voice.
Dick could have wished him safely in Paradise if the wish would restore to life his beloved mother. And she, dear soul though he had forgotten her last night perhaps her gentle spirit was shielding him as he stood with his back to the rock and faced the vicious swarm of Arabs in the darkness. Then Stump's gruff accents broke in on his dreaming. "Is it O.K., Sir Richard?" he asked.
Her back was turned toward him as he approached; and, although he advanced with the utmost caution, the sound of his footsteps disturbed her in the intense silence of the spot, and she leaped to her feet, while the name of Gustave broke in surprised accents from her lips.
He gazed long in her face, with an expression which at that time she could not define, but which startled and affected her, and she put her arm round him and kissed his brow. A convulsive almost agonized sob broke from the boy's breast, and caused his slight frame to shake as with an ague, then suddenly he knelt before her, and, in accents barely articulate, murmured
Almayer again raised his head and in the accents of a man accustomed to the buffets of evil fortune asked hardly audibly: "I suppose you haven't got such a thing as a pony on board?" I told him almost in a whisper, for he attuned my communications to his minor key, that we had such a thing as a pony, and I hinted, as gently as I could, that he was confoundedly in the way too.
"Here is the spirit of progress not merely beckoning to us, but fairly springing into our laps, and because it speaks in accents that were unfamiliar to the slave patriarchy of a hundred years ago, we drag it outside the city and crucify it.
They're all too little to worry if I'm not home on the minute, and Joel ain't the worrying kind." "Truth is, Miss Persis," exclaimed the goaded lad, "it isn't what you'd call convenient for us to take you along this evening." "Thad!" cried Diantha in accents of unutterable reproach. "Well, I don't mean to be impolite, but it's not convenient and you know it."
Daniel is not exactly a prudent man." "I imagine not," remarked Irene, allowing herself a glimpse of his countenance, which she found to be less calm than his tone. "Let us have done with him. Five years ago," she added, with soft accents, "some of that money ought to have been yours, and you received nothing." "Nothing was legally due to me," he answered, in a voice lower than hers.
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