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"But I have influence over this fellow he is devoted to me he shall do this thing without demanding so great, so fabulous a price for his services," he goes on, half-speaking to himself. "'Tis indeed a fabulous price," she says, paling a little at Calvert's words and drawing herself up proudly.
"We pe'ish in um ho'r," suddenly repeated Jackrabbit, half-singing, half-speaking the words, and rising quickly started for the door. At the table, however, he halted and inquired: "All right go missionary to-morrow get marry huh?" Wowkle hesitated, then rose, and finally started slowly towards him.
As the Laird was half-thinking, half-speaking this to himself, the enchanting creature looked back at him with a motion of intelligence that she knew what he was half-saying, half-thinking, and then vanished over the summit of the rising ground before him, called the Birky Brow. "Aye, go your ways!" said the Laird; "I see by you, you'll not be very hard to overtake.
Karnis saw him drop, and painfully raised himself a little to help him; but it was too much for him; he could only clench his fist in helpless fury and chant, half- singing, half-speaking, as loud he was able, Electra's curse: "This my last prayer, ye gods, do not disdain! For them turn day to night and joy to pain!"
"Would that he could have shown himself as tender-hearted and generous to poor Marguerite, if not to his own flesh and blood," he added bitterly, half-speaking to himself. Boulanger hastened to change a subject evidently so painful to his visitor. "And what may monsieur intend to do now, if it is not an impertinent question?" said he. "Surely you could rejoin the army here.
The tones of Hermas were clear and low as he began, half-speaking and half-chanting, in the rhythm of an ancient song: "Fair is the world, the sea, the sky, the double kingdom of day and night, in the glow of morning, in the shadow of evening, and under the dripping light of stars.
In a moment she stood dazzled by a blaze of light a mortal amidst the festival of the elves. She heard the voice of Kong Tolv, half-speaking, half-singing, "Welcome, maiden, fair and free, Thou hast come of thyself in the hill to me; Stay thou here, nor thy fate deplore; Thou hast come of thyself in at my door."
"Is it possible to become a good German without smoking?" said the senior, half-speaking to himself. "I dare say not," said the youth; "but I shan't break my heart on that account."
Then, through the drifting snow flakes that settled down heavier and heavier, there came a voice clear and musical, like the low tones of a flute, half-singing, half-speaking, which might have been the disguise of some voice that feared detection. "To the southward to the southward, where a hearth gives forth its white smoke, and your mother awaits her child."
Why did they keep the world in such suspense and anxiety as to what was coming next, and what was to be the upshot of the whole? Why this reticence, and half-speaking, and apparent indecision?
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