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The door opened, an electric-light switch clicked, and the room was flooded with light. Jason, still running, headed for the desk. "It'll be her again!" Jimmie Dale heard the old man mutter, as from the edge of the portiere he watched the other's actions. Jason picked up the telephone. "Hello! Hello!" he called then began to click impatiently with the receiver hook.
The Piazza was deserted: the malcontents who had gathered to mutter at the horror of the moat where the victims of the night had been tossed unburied, had been dispersed by threat of arms; the sentinels nodded at their posts scarce knowing whose power they were upholding, nor by what name men called their masters.
He's just comin' here in the middle o' the day for his denner, and then drivin' up the water to Altbreac. He has the fishin' there." Thirlstone's face showed profound relief. "Thank God!" I heard him mutter under his breath, and when the landlord had gone he fell to talking of salmon with enthusiasm. "We must make a big day of it to-morrow, dark to dark, you know.
"In God's name!" he said, as he settled himself on his pine bed. I fell asleep at once, and for some time slept deeply. But during the night restlessness seized on the man again. "Peace be with you!" I heard him mutter as he crawled out of the hut. In the morning I burned the man's bed of pine needles; it made a lively fire of crackling pine in the hut.
He took the book off his knees and fumbled it, and with a groaning mutter dropped it: "'Unarm, Eros, the long day's work is done."
"I kept that news for a surprise," laughed Creon. "Good-by, little one," he said to Charmides, and pushed through the crowd. Menon sat down trembling. If his boy should win in the pentathlon also! That would be too great glory. It could not happen. He began to mutter a hundred prayers. Another race was called the double race, twice around the course. But Menon did not stand to see it.
And last of all there trickles down that third and darker thought, the thought of the things themselves, the confused, half-conscious mutter of men who are black and whitened, crying "Liberty, Freedom, Opportunity vouchsafe to us, O boastful World, the chance of living men!" To be sure, behind the thought lurks the afterthought, suppose, after all, the World is right and we are less than men?
He strove to hear and think through the pain in his head, the bewilderment. "Loketh?" He was certain that the Hawaikan had been dumped into the same hold. The only answer was a low moan, a mutter from the dark. Ross began to inch his way in that direction. He was no seaman, but during that worm's progress he realized that the ship itself had changed.
For I had sent many a burgher home to fetch a second horse; and the burghers began to make all sorts of guesses as to why they had to fetch the horses; and one could hear them mutter: "We are going to the Colony." But nevertheless they were all in good spirits, with the exception of some, who had for commander a most contradictory and obstinate officer.
Were it not the sign of a fool to talk to one's self, there would hardly be a day or hour wherein I might not be heard to grumble and mutter to myself and against myself, "Confound the fool!" and yet I do not think that to be my definition. Who for seeing me one while cold and presently very fond towards my wife, believes the one or the other to be counterfeited, is an ass.
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