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The jumpers were coming for exhibit. "But," she insisted breathlessly, leaning toward him, and her hushed voice sounding distinct from all the murmur surrounding them, "Tell me the rest of it!" "Tell you the rest of it? There's nothing more to tell! Nothing except except " He hesitated, then laughed as if in self-derision. "My friend fell down one day, half way up a hill.
"Why, what could she do?" Flossie asked in surprise. "Why, Flossie Barnet! You saw the cover all spoiled. Don't you s'pose she'll " But Mollie's question was hushed by the silvery tinkle of the bell which told that recess was over.
Ah! you remind me of a little innocent, happy child, playing on some shining beach, when the sky is quiet, the winds are hushed, and all things wrapped in rest, save 'The water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds'
"The rest of her life," he echoed, in a hushed accent of dread. While Enderby was getting his ticket, Io waited on the front platform. A small, wiry man came around the corner of the station, glanced at her, and withdrew. Io had an uneasy notion of having seen him before somewhere. But where, and when? Certainly the man was not a local habitant.
As long as I spoke, the deepest silence reigned over the whole assembly; but as soon as I sat down, and began smoking, there was a general movement, which showed me that I had made an impression. The old great chief rose, however, and the murmurs were hushed. He spoke: "Owato Wanisha has spoken. I have heard. It was a strange vision, a beautiful dream.
It is a pain to me to this day, to remember how that old German Lear raged and wept and howled around the stage, with never a response from that hushed house, never a single outburst till the act was ended. To me there was something unspeakably uncomfortable in the solemn dead silences that always followed this old person's tremendous outpourings of his feelings.
Inside there was a blanket of silence; beyond the window the sun was a white rain of heat, blinding and appalling. But inside his shoes took hold on a floor moist from a recent scrubbing and soft with the wear of rough boots; and all was dim, quiet, hushed. There was not a great deal of business in the place, naturally, at this hour of the day.
The repose of ages lay in its hushed groves, its drooping vines, its lifeless creepers; the dry dust of its decaying leaves and branches mingled with the living perfumes like the spiced embalmings of a forgotten past. Nevertheless, this tranquillity, after a few moments, was singularly disturbed.
So that their isolation in the hushed, white world where the frost ruled with an iron hand had not so far become oppressive. They were too busy to develop that dour affliction of the spirit which loneliness and idleness breed through the long winters of the North. A day or two after the first of the year Roaring Bill set out to go over one of the uttermost trap lines.
The larger, the smaller past he scarce knew which to call it was at all events so hushed to sleep round him as he wrote that he had almost a bad conscience about having come. How one might love it, but how one might spoil it! To look at it too hard was positively to make it conscious, and to make it conscious was positively to wake it up.
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