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I had to shoot quick and straight to show them I meant what I said." "Is he dead?" asked Isobel, with a contemptuous coolness as to the fate of the mutineer which Courtenay found admirable. "Not a bit of it. Fired at his legs. Only a flesh wound, I fancy." "Poor wretch!" murmured Elsie. "Was there no other way?" "There is only one way of dealing with that sort of skunk," was the gruff answer.
The shrieks were continued until the gate was forced and then suddenly ceased. Witness led the way up stairs. Upon reaching the first landing, heard two voices in loud and angry contention the one a gruff voice, the other much shriller a very strange voice. Could distinguish some words of the former, which was that of a Frenchman. Was positive that it was not a woman's voice.
The door of Room B was flung open, the head of the first Russian was thrust in, and he spoke in his own language a single gruff word. His assistant then turned the cock and shut off the gas from the cylinder. The door of Room B was instantly shut again, and Jennie heard the rattle of the key as Room A was being unlocked.
Such is the way a true Christian and a brave man would prepare himself for that great change which must come on all of us. "Are you going to say your prayers, young man, before we heave you off?" asked a smuggler, in a gruff voice. "I have said them, thank you," answered Charley, calmly. "Tom, have you said yours? Have you made your peace with Heaven in the only way it can be made?"
At length it could be seen in the distance that the road turned; and round this turning another human figure came in sight. Perhaps in all his life Saul never experienced greater pleasure in meeting another man than he did now, yet his exterior remained gruff and unperturbed.
A gruff voice interrupted her one of the reapers had advanced along the hedge, with a large earthenware jar in his hand. 'Measter, he shouted to the farmer in the gig, 'can't you send us out some better tackle than this yer stuff? He poured some ale out of the jar on the stubble with an expression of utter disgust.
Now as Beltane lay helpless in his bonds he felt a hand among his hair, a strong hand that lifted his heavy, drooping head and turned up his face to the glare of the torches. "How now, Fool!" cried a gruff voice, "here's not thy meat ha, what would ye what would ye, Fool?" "Look upon another fool, for fool, forsooth, is he methinks that cometh so into Garthlaxton Keep."
Swanson was the name of the missing miner, the one Burke had gone back to seek, a Swede beyond doubt, and, from what slight glimpse he had of the fellow before Brown grappled with him in the path above, a sturdily built fellow, awkwardly galled. In all probability such a person would have a deep voice, gruff from the dampness of long working hours below.
The watch was ended at last, and we took supper and went to bed. At midnight the glare of a lantern shone in my eyes, and the night watchman said 'Come! turn out! And then he left. I could not understand this extraordinary procedure; so I presently gave up trying to, and dozed off to sleep. Pretty soon the watchman was back again, and this time he was gruff. I was annoyed. I said:
He listened to her with the appalling silence of the nineteen-year-old male, he kissed her, he returned gruff, embarrassed answers to her searching questions of his soul, and he escaped from her with visibly expanding lungs and averted eyes. She knew that she had lost him. Men called him a good man, and she assented with dry lips and heavy eyelids.
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