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Instantly the girl was in motion again, flying up the cañon past the white-stockinged roan, her pony's hindquarters gathered to take the sheep trail like those of a wild cat. Keller gazed after her. As she disappeared, he took off his hat, bowed elaborately, and remarked to himself, in his low, soft drawl: "Good mo'ning, ma'am.
"It is well known that those fight hardest who fight in vain," remarked Lord Ronald Prior complacently. "But I should have thought a woman of your intellect would have known better. It's such a rank waste of energy to struggle against Fate." He spoke in the easy drawl habitual to him. His grey eyes held the pleasant smile that was seldom absent from them.
His hunting-knife had sheared at a stroke the riata round the engineer's neck. "Take it easy, boys," urged Fraser, still in his gentle drawl, to the astonished vigilantes whom his sudden sally had robbed of their victim. "Think about it twice. We'll all be a long time dead. No use in hurrying the funerals." Nevertheless he recognized battle as inevitable.
Niles closed, as he always closed a speech, with the metaphor that had given him his sobriquet. "That is real oratory, Ivus," stated Mr. Thornton, serenely; "I know it is, because a man who is listening to real oratory never understands what the orator is driving at." The Hon. Thelismer Thornton usually spoke with a slow, dry, half-quizzical drawl. That drawl was effective now.
Otis, were merely such as form the ordinary conversation of cultured Americans of the better class, such as the immense superiority of Miss Fanny Devonport over Sarah Bernhardt as an actress; the difficulty of obtaining green corn, buckwheat cakes, and hominy, even in the best English houses; the importance of Boston in the development of the world-soul; the advantages of the baggage-check system in railway travelling; and the sweetness of the New York accent as compared to the London drawl.
The billiard-marker of "L'Hotel Soult" had vanished as completely as well, as Mr Ratman. "You know, of course," said the tutor once, with the rather unsympathetic drawl in which he was wont to allude to the lost Ingleton "you know, of course, that if the man you want is Ratman, you are having the assistance of the police in your search.
"Reckon I've landed on both feet," he observed, a confident, satisfied drawl in his voice. "What do you mean by that?" inquired Dave. "Why, I've been looking out for an airship said to be cruising around this neighborhood. Truck farmer said he saw one early this morning. Then I noticed you in town.
Come up," called Lingard, impatiently. The Malays had left their stations and stood clustered by the mainmast in a silent group. Not a word was spoken on the brig's decks, while the stranger made his way to the waiting captain. Lingard saw approaching him a short, dapper man, who touched his cap and repeated his greeting in a cool drawl: "Good evening. . . Captain, sir?"
"If you want to know," he said in his Sussex drawl, "I'll tell you who he is, Sir Robert Aleys. He is my worshipful master, Hubert of Hastings, ship-owner, householder, and trader of this town. Or at least he was these things, but now it seems that his ships and house are burnt and his mother with them; also that there will be no trade in Hastings for many a day."
"If you go about saying that, Sally, it won't be hard to know who you are," she warned. "You'll have to forget Aunt Jane and her poll parrot for to-night," a voice soft and tinkling drawled. This time Janet laughed. "How about your drawl, Taffy?" she inquired. "Oh, dear, this will never do," Phyllis protested. "We will all have to keep as quiet as possible and only answer 'yes' and 'no."
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