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The nearest riders abruptly ceased their chatter; they questioned one another mutely, doubting their own ears. Again came that thin, muffled wail, whereupon O'Reilly cried in astonishment: "Leslie! Why, it it's in YOUR BUNDLE!" He pointed to the formless roll of bedding which hung from his friend's saddle-horn. "G'wan! You're crazy!"
Didn't I say, only this afternoon, that we must at once take a four-wheeler to Sir Tiglath's?" "Yes, you did," said the Prophet, in a muffled voice. "For I knew that no investigation, no serious, reverent investigation into heavenly, that is starry, conditions could be indifferent to you, Sir Tiglath."
"There will be a difference, you understand. You will be a different person from what you were when last there," he went on, in a muffled voice. "Yes, I understand," replied Barebone, gravely. Already the dream was taking shape Colville's persuasive voice had awakened him to find that it was no dream, but a reality and Farlingford was fading back into the land of shadows.
Humble persons are conscious of new illumination; narrow brows expand with enlarged affections: delicate spirits, long unknown to themselves, masked and muffled in coarsest fortunes, who now hear their own native language for the first time, and leap to hear it.
The old marquise thought it impossible, but if the incredible event occurred, then things were to be expected, things But ere she had imagined how this unprecedented event could take place, the Emperor himself informed her, for, half addressing Barbara, half the lady in waiting, he exclaimed in a slightly muffled tone: "Thanks, cordial thanks for this great pleasure, my dear Jungfrau!
By that time he had freed his benumbed hands, chafed them into a condition of vitality, and was considering whether he should endeavour to creep quietly away or spring up and make a dash for life. "`Now or niver, said the ghost, in a solemn muffled vice," continued Paddy "Who did he say that to?" asked Gashford, who was by that time as much fascinated as the rest of the party.
He felt the intentness of her steadfast gaze, and paused. He stopped. It seemed that everything stopped too. So striking, indeed, was the sensation, that he gave expression to it half aloud: "It's slowing up," he murmured, "stopping!... I do believe! Hm!..." There was no answer this time, no sign of echo anywhere, but he heard an owl calling its muffled note from the Wood without a Centre.
Muffled squeals and tinny crashes told that conflict was still raging beneath the bed; the tinker women screamed abuse and complaint; and suddenly the dachshund's long yellow nose, streaming with blood, worked its way out of the folds.
I was so much muffled up in Brissac's cloak that I was taken for him: the door was immediately shut, not the least question asked me; and having none to ask myself I went straight to the lady's chamber.
Anxious to gratify my curiosity by a sight of the young lady, I turned to her as she lay muffled up in the cloak, and expressed a hope that she did not feel cold. She put her head out, and answered in the negative with such a sweet smile, upon such a sweet face as I never had before witnessed.
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