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That was not the way to get work out of a subordinate this patronizing of possible energy and enthusiasm, this cold dampening of ardor, as though ardor in itself were a reproach and zeal required reproof. Wondering why they had chosen me if they thought me a blundering and, perhaps, mischievous zealot, I picked up a parcel, undirected, and broke the string. Out of it fell two letters.
Faster than ever he moved, the pat-pat of his feet on the deadening snow drowning the sound of the great breaths he drew into his lungs and sent whistling out again through his nostrils. As with the horse, the sweat oozed at every pore. Collecting on his brow and face, it dripped slowly from his great chin. Dampening, his clothes clung binding-tight to his body; but he never noticed.
Then she looked more hopeful as her eyes rested on Betty, who was sorting the contents of a too-crowded dresser drawer. "You are with me, anyway, aren't you, Betty?" she asked, almost wistfully. "We'll leave these other two at home, and you and I will go on our adventure." "All right," said Betty, with a lack of enthusiasm that fell with a dampening effect upon Mollie's ears.
Each fell to expatiating upon the good qualities of his steed, and this dialogue was so animated and engrossing they approached a ford without being conscious of outer matters. There was heavy rain in the highlands and an ominous sound in the dampening air. They entered the water still arguing.
If it will jump your releases ten per cent. they ought to pay me quite a lot more than they're paying me now." "You're doing pretty well as it is," Burns reminded her, with a visible dampening of his eagerness. "For keeping your cut-and-dried stories from falling flat, yes.
There was but one trouble the thick fog; but that might be expected on the Banks of Newfoundland. Old Captain Mountz was pacing up and down the deck with the firm tread of a man who felt himself on solid ground. "Good-morning, captain! A pleasant change this," was Ishmael's greeting. "Oh, aye, yes! for as long as it will last," was the dampening reply.
The cars were crowded to the platforms, and for some reason or other dozens of the inebriated passengers thought it appropriate to cheer and yell, though God knows the whole surroundings were calculated to make a human being shed tears of anguish. The sight of the coffins in the baggage cars, some of them containing the dead, had no dampening effect upon the spirit of these roysterers.
Then the spring wind blew up to them from off the Di with a coolish, dampening touch. "What do you hear from Elsie?" he asked, heeding the wind's touch. "She is in love. What do you hear from Mr. Carington?" "That same. It seems very right and fit. Carington and Elsie are well mated. The wedding will happen in July. Carry wants me to come back to him for it."
Hagan was not so soon discouraged. "Doesn't interest you yet? Maybe it will later. Recently a girl by the name of Minnie Ray fell out of a window at the hotel I'm speaking of the Van Styne. It killed her." "Yes?" "I thought likely you'd read the item in the papers. The coroner's verdict was accident." "Yes?" These brief, interrogatory replies might have proved dampening to some narrators.
She picked her way through the debris; she dropped her head from the burning; she felt her delicate garments moistening with perspiration, her hair dampening; the dust sifted up through the air. Over in the large corral a bronco buster, assisted by two of the cowboys, was engaged in roping and throwing some wild mustangs. The sight was wonderful, but here the dust billowed in clouds.
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