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Then he spoke in the inflectionless monotone of extreme old age: "A House-dweller and a snake, my son crush them when you can, for the woods are full of shadows, and a man cannot always see where to plant his foot. I have lived very long, and I know." "But, my father, if you will only let me " "I am tired," interrupted the even, expressionless tones. "Go away and leave me to sleep.

There was a sinister significance in the sound that I, for one, shall not easily forget. The man Grenelli paled and took an involuntary backward step. "The steamship Russia" continued Indiman, in his calm, inflectionless voice, "was booked to carry an unusually distinguished company on this particular trip. The International Peace Congress has been in session in New York during the past fortnight.

If it could, I should have liked to," she supplemented stiffly. It was a stiffness that made me want to cry out to the hilltops in rebellion. "But suppose it could be arranged?" suggested Jim. She looked away from us. "It couldn't be," she replied in that same inflectionless voice. It was her voice that cut so sharply.

His face was so strange that she wondered if he had decided to do away with her. "To-morrow," he said, in an inflectionless voice, "you will be moved by automobile to a farm I have selected in the country. You will take only such small luggage as the car can carry." "Is Olga going with me?" "No. Olga is needed here."

Auburn Risque straightened himself and glared upon all the besiegers, till his pock-marked face grew white as leprosy, and every spot in his secretive eye faded out in the glitter of his defiance. "To-morrow?" he said, in a voice hard, passionless, inflectionless; "how could one break the bank to-morrow, when all his money was gone yesterday?"

May I er inquire if you wish employment by the er week, or just in your spare time, to put it so?" The question was icily sarcastic. Denny's answer came sharp upon its heels. His voice was just as measured, just as inflectionless as Hogarty's had been. "If you hire them here by the week," he said, "or for their spare time, I I reckon I've come to the wrong establishment.

Then the office door from the hall opened about a foot, a fat head in a gaunt bonnet protruded through the crevice, having rather a decapitated look, and a deep inflectionless voice said: "Excuse me introodin', Doctor, I'm sure, but your sick here raskin' me kin they see you soon." "In five minutes precisely ..." Morning sunshine streamed through the unwashen windows.

The voices changed as often as the shadows on the tent-wall; now it was the abrupt, clipping speech of a white man and now the deep, inflectionless bass of an Indian. But most often it was the droning monotone of the post interpreter, uttering his translations in English or in the tongue of the Apache.

Laid away tidy in the second bureau drawer, her shirts were. The doctor himself seemed not a little enlivened by the evening's prospect. It is imaginable that the Dabney House grew a little lonely at times.... "And to think your swell uncle wants you so special, sir!" said Mrs. Garland, in her harsh, inflectionless voice. "A compliment, I'm sure.

The monotonously inflectionless conversation was still, too, for the time, and he merely sat and stared perplexedly about him, around the small workshop, bare except for the single high-stool that held him and the littered bench on which he leaned.