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Schuyler, she knew that song's well as I did, and she picked it up where I left off and hummed it straight to the end words and music! How'd she know it, I say?" "Why, she might have picked that up anywhere. She goes to see friends, I've no doubt, who are not so straight-laced as the Schuylers, and they play light tunes for her." "Not likely.
Gaily she sped along the sunny road, little dreaming that that same sun that so gladdened her was to set upon the last of her youth. The car was in a good mood also, and they hummed merrily past the little stone church of Brethaven and up to the great iron gate of Redlands just as the clock in the tower struck ten. "Good business!" commented Nick, as he descended to open the gate.
She is passing the day with the Pettigrews, who have taken a place near her village for a month. She promised to dine and sleep here, if she returned in time. What is your news? 'Nothing; the world wags on. 'You have nothing special to tell her? 'Nothing'; he hummed; 'nothing, I fancy, that she does not know. 'You said you were disappointed. 'It's always a pleasure to see her.
The vibration of the monster ship increased to a strong, electric pulsation, the water hummed along her sides, she felt the swell of the open sea. A fine rain began to fall that hid the land yes, and the life I was leaving.
The water was perfectly still; we could hear talking and laughter away over at the island, where men and girls were at work on the fish. It was a happy afternoon. Ay, was it not a happy afternoon? We took hampers of food and wine with us; a big party we were, in two boats, with young women in light dresses. I was so happy that I hummed a tune.
Listen: I'll prove it without the accompaniment." And he hummed softly: "The Spanish cavalier, Went out to rope a steer, Along with his paper cigar-o, 'Car-ramba! says he. 'Mañana you will be Mucho bueno carne par mio!" Her brown eyes danced. "That doesn't prove anything except that you're an incorrigible Celt.
About the Abbey and Abingdon Street stood the outer pickets and detachments of the police, their attention all directed westward to where the women in Caxton Hall, Westminster, hummed like an angry hive. Squads reached to the very portal of that centre of disturbance.
The words hummed meaningless in Lydia's ears, and it was not until some time after, in the garish white brilliance of the car, that she convinced herself that she had heard aright.
If she had so few interests there was the greater possibility that a young man of bold conceptions and cheerful manners might become one. She had usually the air of waiting for something, with a pretty listlessness or an amused resignation, while tender shy indefinite little fancies hummed in her brain. Thus she would perhaps recognise in him the reward of patience.
They then sat down opposite to me, and I could not help feeling, by the expression of their countenances and their manner, that something not over agreeable was coming. Monsieur de Villereine looked at his brother and then at me, and hummed and hawed several times, as if he did not like to begin what he had to say. At last he mustered courage.
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