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"You just said that I was only a disembodied voice." She laughed, a musical low-toned chuckle that pleased him. "One gets impressions," she answered. "Being sightless sharpens other faculties. You often have very definite impressions in your mind about people you have never seen, don't you?" "Oh, yes," he agreed. "I daresay every one gets such impressions."
After that it shall be sent to you. It is an oak and a sunset a warm and low-toned picture and I am sure you will like it." This landscape represents two vigorous oak trees by the bank of a river, with a sunset seen through the branches, and reflected in the water.
Gardley drew his employer aside and told what had happened in a few low-toned sentences; and then stepped down and back into the shadow, his horse by his side, the three men from the camp grouped behind him. He had the delicacy to withdraw after his duty was done. Mr. Rogers, his face stern with sudden anger and alarm, stepped down and stood beside his daughter.
He knew her, and something in her face prompted the low-toned sentence as be paused before her: "You have found the Father, I think." And Flossy, with brightening eyes, answered, quickly, "Yes, I have." And then the boat touched at the wharf, and the crowd elbowed their way out. There were two opinions expressed about that excursion by two gentlemen as they made their way up the avenue.
She spoke resolutely "Sir Eberhard, your sister is ill you are in no state to be here. Go down at once, nor insult a free maiden." Probably the low-toned softness of the voice, so utterly different from the shrill wrangling notes of all the other women he had known, took him by surprise.
There, within hearing of the soldiers, the dialogue that followed was low-toned, and it was swift and palpitant with repressed emotion. "Mr. Feller, I saw you at the automatic. I heard what the wounded private of the Grays said to you and realized how true it was." "He is a prisoner. He cannot tell." "Does he need to?
In the tumult of that moment there could be no check to the words which came as the impulsive utterance of her long-accumulating horror. When Tito had named the men of whom she felt certain he was the confederate, she said, with a recoiling gesture and low-toned bitterness "And you you are safe?" "You are certainly an amiable wife, my Romola," said Tito, with the coldest irony. "Yes; I am safe."
And even now as they stood there, he and Toomey, exchanging at intervals some low-toned words at the switch, the eastward skies were slowly taking on their early morning garb of pink and violet, the eastward fronts of the snow-sifted peaks and domes far to the north and south were lighting up with wondrous hues of gold and crimson; the stars aloft were paling and the moon was sinking low, and still big 705 stood hissing and grumbling placidly on the long siding, and the green lights back at the caboose blinked sleepily against the dawn.
North in the face as a preliminary. Under the circumstances, he'd take it that way; Penfield would make sure that he took it that way." It was at this point in the low-toned conference that the ingenious young man in the outer office put down the desk telephone ear-piece long enough to smite with his fist at some air-drawn antagonist.
"If the major got there first, sir, and I believe he did, they have to send the prisoners and wounded back this way." "Then we've got 'em!" broke in Schreiber, low-toned, but exultant. "Look sir," he added, as he pointed along the range. "They are signalling now."
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