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Her arguments seemed altogether extinguished by Erica's remorseless logic; she was not nearly so clever, and her very earnestness seemed to trip her up and make all her sentences broken and incomplete. They discussed the subject till Erica was hoarse, and at last from very weariness she fell asleep while the Lutheran was giving her a long quotation from St. Paul.
But as the English governess complained that she could never read aloud for ten minutes at a time without growing hoarse and Clementina's eyes were too weak for any such office, it was suggested that Margari should be asked to submit to this extra sacrifice, and Clementina succeeded in persuading him to do so by promising him a liberal reward.
Who talked or said a word of murder?" said Barry, with a hoarse and croaking voice "isn't she dying as she is? and isn't she better dead than alive? It's only just not taking so much trouble to keep the life in her; you're so exceeding clever you know!" and he made a ghastly attempt at smiling.
"Silence!" snapped out Jarette, and a sharp smack was followed by a low moan. Then in loud hysterical tones, as if a hoarse frantic woman were appealing, I heard as I sat shuddering there "No, no, don't, Captain Jarette. I'll work with you, and stick to you, and help you always. Don't do that." "You you cowardly, sneaking traitor! Who'd trust you an inch out of his sight? Over with him, lads.
The frenzy became wilder as the day declined, and at last, covered with blood, hoarse with shouting, panting with their gymnastics, they 'prophesied, having wrought themselves into that state of excitement in which incoherent rhapsodies burst from their lips. What a scene to call worship! That is what millions of men are ready to practise to-day.
Imagine then her untiring, all-pervading watchfulness. In the twilight of early dawn, the farm servants heard her hoarse, husky voice: "Olivier Peyrol Audibert Come! It's four o'clock." Then a dive into the huge kitchen, where the maids, heavy with sleep, were warming the soup over the bright, crackling peat fire.
She had detected a flirtation between her daughter and the uninvited guest, and not approving of flirtations, had told Joaquin to keep his eyes upon them when hers were absent; but that the man should dare and the girl should stoop to think of marriage wrought in her a passion to which her husband's seemed the calm flame of a sperm-candle. "What!" she cried, her hoarse voice breaking. "What!
Life indoors that night in Benton was monstrous, wonderful, and hideous. Every saloon was packed, and every dive and room filled with a hoarse, violent mob of furious men: furious with mirth, furious with drink, furious with wildness insane and lecherous, spilling gold and blood.
The Whisky Jacks, that had been croaking out their hoarse cries all winter, seemed to get sulky and vexed that they were now so little admired, and so they flitted away farther north and buried themselves in the interior of the deepest forests.
As for Hugh himself he found it hard to believe his senses, for the absolute quiet and dead calm brooding all day long over that retired spot in the wilderness had been rudely shattered by a most astonishing noise as of many hoarse voices, making a jumble and roar of sound unlike anything save the confusion of battle.
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