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"Great heavens!" he cried, coming forward, his ruddy face pale with sudden emotion. "What is all this?" Giles took upon himself the office of spokesman, which the rector, remembering that he had been engaged to the deceased, tacitly delegated to him. "It's poor Daisy," he said hoarsely. "She has been " "Murdered! No. Don't say murdered!"
His real reason for stopping was to have a chance to look back. You see, while he was flying he couldn't look behind him. Presently, just as he expected, he saw in the distance a little red speck, and that little red speck was moving very fast indeed. There was nothing weak or feeble in the way that red speck was coming across the snow-covered fields. Blacky chuckled hoarsely.
But I fancied that I could hear mutterings whenever I passed people in the street, and the rat would begin its gnawing again. He will drag us all down." His voice failed him, and he sank in his chair. "Ruined! The Colossus is ruined!" he hoarsely whispered. "If you would stop to think," said Henry, "you would know that your trouble is mostly physical. Your nerves are unstrung.
The smith was about to apply his shoulder vigorously to the door, when Spoil-sport growled hoarsely, and made a "point." Dagobert silenced the dog with a word, and grasping his son's arm, said to him in a whisper: "Do not stir. The dog has scented some one in the garden." Agricola and his father remained for some minutes motionless, holding their breath and listening.
The next it was rolling in the trough of the sea, between a wave which hoarsely threatened to engulf it, and another which rushed seething and hissing from beneath the keel. The deck stood mostly at a steep angle, the weather bulwarks being at a considerable elevation, and the lee ones dipping the surges.
While running a grand slam to cover, the best authorities, including Bob Carter, claim that you should breathe hoarsely through the front teeth, pausing from time to time to recite brief passages from Ralph Waldo Emerson. Never whistle while waiting for someone to play. Whistling is not in good taste. Go over and bite out a couple of tunes on the piano.
"And, my dear fellow," he pursued, growing somewhat incoherent because of his earnestness, "I want to tell you that that because I I'm so deucedly happy myself, y' know, I wish that my luck had been yours no, I don't mean that exactly, but what I meant to say was that I that you deserve to to oh, blister me! Tell him what I mean, Clemency dear," the Viscount ended, a little hoarsely.
It merely awakened another, who cursed the first sleepily. "Hey, Kelly," he called, "hit that dog with a rock!" A pause. "Hey, Kelly, wake up, there!" "I guess we've got Kelly," Casey whispered to Sandy. He called out hoarsely: "He'll quit in a minute! G'wan to sleep. You don't know your own luck." But the dog continued to bark, jumping up and down frantically.
"I'm damned sorry I spoke as I did. You see you see, I just didn't know it would hit you, that's all." Again Steve swallowed. Dumbly he pointed at the gun. "What are you doing with that?" he demanded hoarsely. Garry's eyes dropped. He stared at the revolver in his hand in mild perplexity, much as though he, too, were surprised to find it there. "Why, nothing nothing.
She made a quick movement, opening the gate and coming rapidly to them. "What is it?" she said, hoarsely. He could not think of anything to say.... "It's from the War Office, mother," Mary said. He stood ready to put his arms about her and support her.... "Give it to me," she said, holding out her hand for the telegram, and he passed it to her. They stood silently before her while she read it.
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