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"Just a matter of business," he explained with a flourish, "I'm considering an option on some of Charley's claims." "Jest my bum claims!" mumbled Charley as Virginia glanced at him reprovingly. "Jest them ten up north of the Paymaster." "Oh," she said and drew back towards the door, "well, don't let me break up a trade."
Before either of them knew what had happened their lips met a frightened, hasty, timorous kiss that was not even prophetic of the joys that were to grow out of it. "Oh, David, you must not do that!" cried the very maiden in her. "Has any one ever kissed you before?" he demanded, fiercely jealous on a sudden. She drew back, hurt, aghast. "Why, David!" she cried. He mumbled an apology.
He devoted himself to it, and it occupied him so agreeably that he did not observe the conduct of Mademoiselle Klosking on her return. She placed three photographs softly on the table, not very far from him, and then resumed her seat; but her eye never left him: and she gave monosyllabic and almost impatient replies to everything he mumbled with his mouth full of omelet.
After a few questions, to which the bride and bridegroom responded, and a few words mumbled by the mayor, and after signing the registers, with their witnesses, duly, Luigi and Ginevra were made one.
"I did not know whether I myself might speak it so that another could understand. For sixty years I have spoken only their accursed gibberish. For sixty years I have not heard a word in my native language. Poor creature! Poor creature!" she mumbled. "What accursed misfortune threw you into their hands?" "You are an English woman?" asked Bertha Kircher.
It was a timely piece of advice; for his upper and false teeth had become partially dislodged and threatened to drop upon the shirt-bosom gayly showing between the lapels of his dark-blue silk house-coat. He slowly closed his mouth, moving his teeth back into place with his tongue a gesture that made her face twitch with rage and disgust. "Seven thousand dollars," he mumbled dazedly.
Pierre stood and looked at the wandering eyes, behind which were the torturings of an immense and confused intelligence; a life that fell deformed before the weight of too much brain, so that all tottered from the womb into the gutters of foolishness, and the tongue mumbled of chaos when it should have told marvellous things.
"You have made up your mind, then, to a speedy death," he muttered through his clenched teeth. "Perhaps, my illustrious Capataz," the doctor said, testily. "You are not the only one here who can look an ugly death in the face." "No doubt," mumbled Nostromo, loud enough to be overheard. "There may be even more than two fools in this place. Who knows?"
At dinner in the hall she ate nothing, but drank her wine as though burning with a fever. Sometimes, when the stillness had become portentous, Lapo rolled up his sleeves, inspected his scarred, swarthy arms, and mumbled, with the grin of a man stretched on the rack: "Ah, Father and Son! if only one had a skin as soft, white, and delicate as a girl's!" At this Madonna Gemma left the table.
The sick man mumbled inarticulate sounds; not another word could be distinguished. John looked for the bell, thinking that Mr. Juxon should be informed of the strange phenomenon at once; but before he could ring the squire himself entered the room, having finished and despatched his note to Mr. Ambrose. "It is most extraordinary," said John. "He spoke just now " "What did he say?" asked Mr.
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