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The voice hesitated, weary, dreamy, lost, as if dying away in a vast open space. ". . . Find a trick that will work. He's up to it never fear . . ." He must have been very drunk, for at last the heavy sleep gripped him with the suddenness of a magic spell, and the last word lengthened itself into an interminable, noisy, in-drawn snore. And then even the snoring stopped, and all was still.
"I demand an explanation! "But my dear sir, I am sure nothing was said " The old man dodged by, ran to the edge of the platform, and cried in a thin, high voice, "Do you mean my farm? My farm that Burke wants to buy?" There was a momentary silence, during which here and there could be heard long in-drawn gasps.
While Kenkenes examined them in detail, a long, in-drawn breath of wonder from the circle of spectators caused him to look at the alighting owner of the litter. He took a backward step and halted, amazed. Before him was a woman of heroic proportions, taller, with the exception of himself, than any man in the crowd.
It must be a radiant and compelling beauty, and every one knows that there are not many such beauties, stage-struck or otherwise. The next question is most often put by the parents or friends of the would-be actress; and when with clasped hands and in-drawn breath they ask about the temptations peculiar to the profession of acting, all my share of the "old Adam" rises within me.
Majestically Othello was striding down to the door, where Emilia was knocking for admittance, when there came that long in-drawn breath that "a-a-h!" that from the auditorium always means mischief and a sudden bobbing of heads this way and that in the front seats. In an instant the great actor felt the broken spell, knew he had lost his hold upon the people but why?
He resumed, and by his tone she understood that she was now in the inner temple of him: "I tell you these things; I quite acknowledge they do not elevate me. They help to constitute my character. I tell you most humbly that I have in me much too much of the fallen archangel's pride." Clara bowed her head over a sustained in-drawn breath.
She read closely, with in-drawn brows, then went deeper into the heap till she found confirmation. Jeremy Braxton was dead big, genial, kindly Jeremy Braxton. A Mexican mob of pulque-crazed peons had killed him in the mountains through which he had been trying to escape from the Harvest into Arizona. The date of the telegram was two days old.
In the middle is a long in-drawn note, much like one of the canary's. The odd little creature does not get far away from the ground. I have never seen him sing from a living tree or bush, but always from a stump or a log, or from the root or branch of an overturned tree, from something, at least, of nearly his own color.
And by the side of each man the dust was stiffened into a red cake with a glairy pool in the middle of it, fed from the raw wound; and where two men lay together their pools had joined and overflowed in a thin red stream. John put down his stretcher and stood still. His face was very white, and his upper lip showed in-drawn and dry, and tightened as though it were glued to his teeth.
"To what are we indebted for the honour of so early a call?" he inquired with a twist of his in-drawn lips. "You were off before I was down this morning," the young man said. "I just looked in to tell you I was going out. That's all." "You look in rather frequently on the same errand, I believe. Would it be indiscreet on my part to ask where you are going?"
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