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But I can say nothing to Claudet. It is a secret that does not belong to me. How can I get out of it? Tutt! tutt! tutt!" These monosyllabic ejaculations broke forth like the vexed clucking of a frightened blackbird; after which relief, the Abbe resumed his fitful striding up and down the box-bordered alley.
He looked at George's sister as if for authority to speak further, and Clementina looked at her, too, while George's father nervously moistened his smiling lips with the tip of his tongue, and let his twinkling eyes rest upon Clementina's face. "Is he at the hotel?" she asked. "Yes," said his sister, monosyllabic for once.
We drank the coffee brought to us before dawn, in grouchy, sleepy, monosyllabic silence.
I made some attempts to draw her into conversation, but she seemed a person of few words: a monosyllabic reply usually cut short every effort of that sort.
They were very awkward, and somewhat embarrassed, but they all looked her straight in the eye, and Carroll felt somehow that back of their diffidence they were quite dispassionately appraising her. After a few gracious speeches on her part and monosyllabic responses on theirs, they blundered away.
It was a sort of high-tension vigilance. Joe rose to his feet, obeying the monosyllabic summons, and followed Mr. Boner around the partition. Mr. Boner rated a private office, where he could worm information, trade secrets, and occasional concessions from travelling salesmen. There was nothing social about the place.
Crookes, as ever monosyllabic, took himself on in a little while, and Sweeny, his chair tipped back against the wall, his hands clasped behind his head, listened to Freye explaining to Cressler the plans of the proposed clique and the lines of their attack.
Again came Nick's monosyllabic reply. "Guess we'd best let him know." There was a pause. Ralph waited for his brother to speak. As no answer came he went on. "Who's goin' to tell him?" Still there was no reply. The silence was broken only by the "ping" of the rawhide strands which Nick tested as he drew tight. "We need some fixin's fer her," Ralph went on, a moment later.
I was ushered into a small parlour where sat, sipping brandy and water, a short, stout, monosyllabic sort of figure, corresponding in outward shape to the name of Briggs even unto a very nicety. "Mr. Pelham," said this gentleman, who was dressed in a brown coat, white waistcoat, buff-coloured inexpressibles, with long strings, and gaiters of the same hue and substance as the breeches "Mr.
As for Captain Bonnet, he had relapsed into one of his black moods. Nothing brought him on deck or made him speak except to give Herriot monosyllabic commands. Late the following day, after a slow progress along the Delaware shore, the sloop hove to in a wide roadstead and the anchor was run out.
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