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His voice harshened and broke with a despair that was all the more terrible for the deadness of his tone. "God! That's why the whiskey won't work. I've poured it down like water, but it's no use it won't work! I can't forget I've lost out!" Genevieve leaned toward him, half frenzied, her face crimson and her gentle eyes ablaze with scorn.
Even Harold was less talkative: the tones of his voice had harshened. The two Indians, when they spoke at all, were surly and threatening. The moments passed. For a breath the cabin was still. Only too well Bill knew that matters were approaching the explosive stage. A single word might invoke murderous passions that would turn the cabin into shambles.
"It was natural that," he said, "logical, da! Here is a very great secret, perhaps many secrets to my country invaluable " He paused, shaken by some overpowering emotion; the veins in his forehead grew congested, the cold eyes blazed and the guttural voice harshened. "I do not apologize and I do not explain," rasped Marakinoff. "But I will tell you, da!
It was pure melody, soft and pensive as the cooing of a wood dove. "Who belongs to it?" Bud was plainly suspicious. The shake of the squaw's bandannaed head was more artfully vague than her gesture. "Don' know modder die fadder die ketchum long ways off." "Well, what's its name?" Bud's voice harshened with his growing interest and bewilderment.
The brawny mutineer set her on his knee, and, in a voice harshened by thirty years' service before the mast, asked her deferentially if she fancied a glass of syrup? "No, thank you," said Daisy politely; and then, addressing everybody in general, "papa and mamma's gone to Tarawa!" "Now, if that ain't too bad!" put in Bob sympathetically.
That was why she had appealed to him; he had felt the force of her personality, the underlying strength of her character that had not harshened her outward charm, as strength so often does for a woman. That was the worst of it. Had she been weak she would never have mixed with any political conspiracy; they would not have wanted her, for intrigue has no place for weaklings.
Nor was he able to keep his anger entirely from his voice. "Everything that girl does you think is perfect. Instead of encouraging her in her meanness you ought to help me out." His tones harshened, and he lost the fine edge of his self-control. "I've stood enough nonsense from that little " Seemingly, Neilson made no perceptible movement in his chair.
Tony Lattimer had gone forward and was sweeping his flashlight back and forth, swearing petulantly, his voice harshened and amplified by his helmet-speaker. "I thought I was blasting into a hallway; this lets us into a room. Careful; there's about a two-foot drop to the floor, and a lot of rubble from the blast just inside."
His brow was wrinkled now; his features harshened; the scar upon his face, and the slight distortion which accompanied it, was hidden by a bushy beard from all but himself; and he never forgot it for a day, nor forgot who had given it to him.
I do not say for myself and yet three years of prison might be some excuse for a soured and harshened spirit but I will not avail myself of the excuse; for there were men, stancher Chartists than ever I had been men who had suffered not only imprisonment, but loss of health and loss of fortune; men whose influence with the workmen was far wider than my own, and whose temptations were therefore all the greater, who manfully and righteously kept themselves aloof from all those frantic schemes, and now reap their reward, in being acknowledged as the true leaders of the artizans, while the mere preachers of sedition are scattered to the winds.
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