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Charlotte pulled forward a chair for her lover; he had just seated himself, when Cephas Barnard spoke in a voice as sudden and gruff as a dog's bark. Barnabas started, and his chair grated on the sanded floor. "Light the candle, Charlotte," said Cephas, and Charlotte obeyed. She lighted the candle on the high shelf, then she sat down next Barnabas. Cephas glanced around at them.
Prissy soon had the table set, and she was just peppering the turnips when a gruff voice behind her said: "Well, well, what does this mean?" Prissy whirled around as if she had been shot, and there stood Uncle Richard in the woodshed door! Poor Prissy! She could not have looked or felt more guilty if Uncle Richard had caught her robbing his desk.
"But the odd thing is," he went on in a lower tone, "I've seen it. I know I've seen it. Saw it this mornin' very early when the pigeon woke me up at dawn." "Pigeon!" exclaimed Tim and Judy simultaneously. "Dawn!" "Carrier-pigeon flew in at my open window woke me," continued the soldier in his gruff old voice. "I've used 'em carrier-pigeons, you know. Sent messages years ago.
"Trip, trap! trip, trap! trip, trap!" went the bridge, for the Billy Goat was so heavy that the bridge creaked and groaned under him. "Who's that tramping on my bridge?" roared the Troll. "It's I! the big Billy Goat Gruff," said the Billy Goat, and he had a big hoarse voice. "Now, I'm coming to gobble you up!" roared the troll. "Well come!
He had struck aside my helping hand; he was ready to go now, and beyond the balustrade the night seemed to wait for him very still, as though he had been marked down for its prey. I heard his voice. "Ah! here it is." He had found his hat. For a few seconds we hung in the wind. "What will you do after after . . ." I asked very low. "Go to the dogs as likely as not," he answered in a gruff mutter.
It was from this gruff friend that Philip learned Greek and Latin enough to enable him to enter college, not enough drill and exact training in either to give him a high stand, but an appreciation of the literatures about which the old scholar was always enthusiastic.
"Right, sir; I'll be ready." There was so little novelty in a fresh trip to me then, that I dropped asleep as soon as I lay down in the tent under a big tree ashore, and it seemed like the next minute when the carpenter in his gruff voice called to us that breakfast was nigh ready.
And by this time the cherubic parent was so fearful of surprise, that, but for the two wooden legs on which Gruff and Glum was reassuringly mounted, his conscience might have introduced, in the person of that pensioner, his own stately lady disguised, arrived at Greenwich in a car and griffins, like the spiteful Fairy at the christenings of the Princesses, to do something dreadful to the marriage service.
Peter was standing watching the moon, whose full orb as it rose in the sky shed a silvery light over the ocean, a spectacle novel and beautiful to him, when old Jim, in a gruff voice, told him to go and turn in. Though he would infinitely have preferred remaining on deck, he did as he was bid.
He was a dry, gruff man, full of daring and devoted to the Slavonic cause. He despised the Turks and hated the Austrians. 'How long must you remain at Venice? Elena asked him in Italian. And her voice was as lifeless as her face. 'One day for freighting and not to rouse suspicions, and then straight to Zara. I shall have sad news for our countrymen.
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