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Pulcheria escorted him through the garden and he promised her to return on the morrow, or the day after, and then she must take care that he found her and her mother alone, for he had no fancy to allow Paula to thrust her pride and airs under his nose a second time. He angrily rejected Pulcheria's attempts to take her friend's part, and he trotted home again, mumbling curses between his old lips.
Soon he was only mumbling figures, names of ships and distant ports, freight consignments. Now and then his finger would go to his lips, as he turned phantom pages in feverish haste. Again, in gasping whispers, he would break out into arguments for the protection of Yankee sails. "Protection!" he would whisper. "Damn fools not to see it! Discriminating tariffs! Subsidies!
Clad in greasy and seedy-looking cowls, the priests go through a few nonsensical manosuvres, consisting chiefly of an ostentatious affectation of reverence toward an altar covered with tattered drapery, by never turning their backs toward it while they walk about, Bible in hand, mumbling and sighing. My self-constituted guide and myself comprise the whole congregation during the "services."
HE knows! And so, with much mumbling and chuckling and shaking of his forefinger, he rose, with the assistance of his stick, and tottered off. 'Mother! said Barnaby, 'that's a brave crowd he talks of. Come! 'Not to join it! cried his mother. 'Yes, yes, he answered, plucking at her sleeve. 'Why not? Come!
So, while she yet stared at me, I turned away, and, mumbling a good night, went into my chamber, and closing the door, leaned against it, for my mind was sick with dread, and sorrow, and a great anguish; for now I knew that Charmian had lied to me my Virgil book had been moved from its usual place. Is there anywhere in the world so damnable a place of torment as a bed?
Wandering among broken graves and crumbling sepulchres, they discovered her, sitting sublime on a ragged rock, where mount Haemus stretches its roots to the Pharsalic field. She was mumbling charms of the Magi and the magical Gods. For she feared that the war might yet be transferred to other than the Emathian fields.
The New York Gazette is about to lose its best man." Still mumbling to himself he followed Hal. The British under Hal and Captain Anderson broke from their shelter and crossed the road to the enemy's side on a dead run, their smoking rifles dealing out death on every hand as they advanced.
As twilight came on, I always carefully closed that door and shut the old lady in to sleep by herself. For it seemed that she was still there, still propped up in an imaginary bed, mumbling incoherently of the past, or moaning out some want, or calling for some one to bring a light, as she used to.
It's a dreadful thing that the poor children should go without, but if they have such a father, they, poor things, must suffer for it. "Nearly a whole leg of pork and a pint of brandy! A pint of brandy and a leg of pork. A leg of leg leg pint " "And mumbling the syllables," says Mr. Caudle's MS., "she went to sleep." "Bah! That's the third umbrella gone since Christmas.
She felt very strange and unreal a tiny figure topping this great gate in the face of the ancient silence.... "We never have a chance for a word together," Falconer was mumbling, with a nervous hand at his mustache. Her thoughts came fleetly back from the ancient worlds.... Her own was upon her. She turned and laughed at him. "We've talked for three whole days!" "Have we?
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