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"Of all the ridiculous " he began furiously; but she spared one hand from its grasp of his sleeve and clapped it over his mouth. "Hush up!" Never for an instant in this grotesque struggle did Fanny raise her voice above a husky whisper. "Hush up! It's indecent like squabbling outside the door of an operating-room! Go on to the top of the stairs go on!"
Scotty, a husky, dark-haired boy clad only in red swimming trunks, came down the ladder from the cabin top and stood beside Rick in the cockpit. "Now that you woke me up to look at a fish, suppose you tell me where we are? Last thing I remember, we were passing under the Bay Bridge off Annapolis." "That's Bloody Point Lighthouse behind us," Rick said.
Its eyes shone; its fangs glistened and gleamed; its hands clutched the air; its tone was husky with suppressed fury; its rage would have stormed the barriers of the grave. In another moment Mrs.
DeVere," the manager went on, "I believe you told me at one time that you did not care to do any acting that took you out in the open; am I right?" "I did say that," admitted the actor, in his husky voice; "but I think I have changed my mind since then. I believe I would like to get out of doors more." "Then I have the very thing for you and your daughters, too," the manager said.
She cocked one bushy eyebrow, setting one eye wide open, drew down the other eyebrow, nearly closing the eye under it, and stood looking after them until they were out of sight. Then turning her head over her shoulder, she burst into a laugh, softly husky with the general flabbiness of her corporeal conditions. "What ails ye, Mistress Catanach?" cried a voice from within.
"What do you mean by that?" "I mean, you infernal skunk, that afore ye leave this groun', ye've got to make a clean breast o' it, an' clar me o' the crime o' murder." "What murder?" inquired Stebbins, prevaricatingly. "Oh! you know what I'm talkin' about! 'Twant no murder. 'Twar only a suicide; an' God knows it broke my own heart." Holt's voice was husky with emotion.
It was, perhaps, for this reason that the embarrassed stranger, after a moment's hesitation, left her gorgeous parasol open and sticking in the dust beside the door, and then sat down at the further end of a long bench. Her voice was husky as she began: "I heerd tell that you were goin' down to the Bay to-morrow, and I couldn't let you go until I came to thank you for your kindness to my Tommy."
"Millions!" "Yes!" Gilbert said. "Think of that!" He turned and faced the others once more. "An' we're goin' to get skinned out of millions! Oh, my Gawd!" The poor old invalid wailed it out, and rocked himself in his chair. How he wished he could rise, step out on the floor and knock Pell and Hardy down! Why didn't his strong and husky young nephew do it?
In a voice that rumbled up from his hairy chest a husky, menacing growl the Irishman demanded: "Fwhat the hell do ye mane, dishturbin' the peace wid yer clamor? For less than a sup av wather I'd go over to ye wid me two hands." Calmly the other dropped his gun into its holster.
Then, seeing the anxious looks on the faces of his daughters, he went on, in more cheerful, though in no less husky tones: "Now don't worry, girls. There'll be some way out of this. If I can't act I can do something else. I'm well and strong, for which I must be thankful. I'm not ill and, aside from my voice, nothing is the matter.
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