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The gentle drawl of Mrs Howell's tone conveyed that her countenance had resumed its primary expression. She observed upon the horrors of the fire which had happened at Blickley the night before. Lady Hunter had not heard of it; and the relation therefore followed of: the burning down of a house and shop in Blickley, when a nursemaid and baby were lost in the flames.
A stare, a strut, a toss, an affected drawl were the leading features of each characterization. 'I had no opportunity of congratulating you on your triumphs the other day, Miss Palliser, said Dr. Rylance, who had somehow managed that Ida and he should be side by side, and a little in advance of the other two. 'But, believe me, I most heartily sympathized with you in the delight of your success.
Her steps lagged before she had gone very far, and she walked on slowly, deep in an unhappy revery, too miserable to notice the quick footsteps that were rapidly gaining on her. "Hello, Phyllis's twin!" The soft, half-laughing drawl was unmistakable, and Janet turned quickly, to see Daphne beside her. "Hello," she answered slowly. No need to force a smile for her; she wouldn't be deceived by it.
I assumed that it had been developed in the City, where Charlie was picking up the curious nasal drawl of the underbred City man. "When the thing's done we'll talk about it. I can't make anything of it at present. Red-haired or black-haired hero are equally difficult." He was sitting by the fire staring at the red coals. "I can't understand what you find so difficult.
A stranger passing might have thought them about to come to blows. But they were simply noisy with earnestness. Their argument was as unlike one of the debates in Vergil's Eclogues as possible. It was an antistrophe of twang and drawl: "Gee, you durned fool, watcha want gointa business for?" "Durned fool your own self! Watcha wanta be a writer for?"
First, there was little Dick, who had acquired a fine Yankee drawl, and grown quite half an inch on board of her, and who fairly howled when his particular friend, a remarkably fierce and grisly-looking boatswain, brought him as a parting offering a large whale's tooth, patiently carved by himself with a spirited picture of their rescue on Kerguelen Land. Then there was Mrs. Thomas herself.
I know quite well what the trouble is. I know rather more about it than you do yourself." He confronted me now with all the fire I could ask. "What mean you, whelp?" "I mean mademoiselle. What else should I mean?" "What do you know?" "Everything." "Her whereabouts?" "Her whereabouts." He had his hand to his knife by this. I abated somewhat of my drawl to say, still airily: "Go ask M. de St.
A boy came towards them, running along under the shed. He was excited and breathless. O, Dedalus, he cried, Doyle is in a great bake about you. You're to go in at once and get dressed for the play. Hurry up, you better. He's coming now, said Heron to the messenger with a haughty drawl, when he wants to. The boy turned to Heron and repeated: But Doyle is in an awful bake.
At sound of the slow drawl the outlaw wheeled like a flash, his hand traveling to the hilt of the revolver that hung on his hip. But he was too late. Already two revolvers covered him, and he knew that both his cousin and McWilliams were dead shots. He flashed one venomous look at the mistress of the ranch. "Y'u fooled me again.
But he was looking at his companions. "This gentleman is all right," he told them. "That may be," said one whom I now knew that I had seen before at Sunk Creek; "but he was not due to-night." "Nor to-morrow," said another. "Nor yet the day after," a third added. The Virginian fell into his drawl. "None of you was ever early for anything, I presume."
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