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''Tis a pity, said Lady Annabel, 'for, with all its desolation, there is something about this spot which ever greatly interests me. 'Mamma, why does no one live here? said Venetia. 'The master of the abbey lives abroad, my child. 'Why does he, mamma? 'Never ask questions, Miss Venetia, said Mistress Pauncefort, in a hushed and solemn tone; 'it is not pretty. Lady Annabel had moved away.
The chatter in the room was hushed, and for a moment a dangerous wrath flamed in Miss Sadler's eyes. Then she passed on with a smile, to send most particular messages to the mother of Miss Isabel Burrage. Some few moments afterward Cynthia felt a touch on her arm, and turned to find herself confronted by Miss Sally Broke.
And ordinarily, in the best rooms of one another, the ladies became spontaneously, rigidly formal as they assembled, speaking in tones suitably stiff of the day's paper, or viewing with hushed esteem those art treasures that surrounded them.
She undressed the children and hushed them to sleep, and sat in her wet garments and waited. When Mr. Bishop appeared it was to say that the men were exhausted and refused to bring up anything that night. A woman of weaker fibre and feebler faith would have been in despair: Mary acted with her usual decision.
It is a solemn time in a court-room when there is an important case on hand, and the judge of the Supreme Court enters, and he sits down, and with gavel strikes on the desk commanding bar and jury and witnesses and audience into silence. All voices are hushed, all heads are uncovered.
She was so tired that her body ached; her feet were smarting and throbbing from the long standing; and her eyes stung from the cold wind and the glare of the elevated train; but she knew that in spite of these discomforts she was not unhappy that she was, indeed, far happier than she had been for the past six years in the hushed suspense of her father-in-law's house.
"Do you believe it?" inquired Lady Montfort of Lord Roehampton. He had been speaking to her for some little time in a hushed tone, and rather earnestly. "Indeed I do; I cannot well see what there is to doubt about it. We know the father very well an excellent man; he was the parish priest of Lady Roehampton before her marriage, when she lived in the country.
The exceptional moment here alluded to, when his voice was suddenly raised, to be hushed again the instant afterwards, came at the very opening of the final scene by Little Dombey's death-bed, where the sunbeams, towards evening, struck through the rustling blinds and quivered on the opposite wall like golden water.
I had always prided myself on my record. In eleven years I had never mislaid an envelope, nor missed taking the first train. And now I had failed in the most important mission that had ever been intrusted to me. And it wasn't a thing that could be hushed up, either. It was too conspicuous, too spectacular. It was sure to invite the widest notoriety.
M. guilty, though the affair was soon hushed up." Extract of a letter from Col. THOMAS ROGERS, a native of Kentucky, now an elder in the Presbyterian Church at New Petersburg, Highland co., Ohio.
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