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It was my fault, and it shall be my fault, and nobody else's fault, except Tom's, and he will hate me, and never let me come near her to show that I am not a nasty spiteful thing! 'I think that if you are quiet and kind, and not flighty, he will forget all that, and be glad to let you be a sister to her. 'A sister to Ave Ward! Pretty preferment! muttered Gertrude. 'Poor Ave!
Bob Taylor, with his hands clenched tightly, muttered under his breath, "Wyoming! Wyoming!" "It is the Iroquois who suffer now," said Heemskerk, as he revolved slowly away from a heated point. Crashes came presently as the houses fell in, and then the sparks would leap higher and the flames roar louder. The barns, too, were falling down, and the grain was destroyed.
Had she acted in good faith in sending it? What was the danger of which she spoke? Why had she not come, and why had she set an hour like this? Was it a mere hoax? "If I could only have a smoke," he muttered, "it wouldn't be so bad waiting to see what the play is." But still he waited, determined not to leave until possessed of the certainty of there being no need of staying longer.
One night, as I was seated on the bench, plunged in frightful melancholy, I saw a belated workman staggering along the street. He muttered a few words in a dazed manner and then began to sing. He was so much under the influence of liquor that he walked at times on one side of the gutter and then on the other. Finally he fell on a bench facing another house opposite me.
"All right," Jimmy replied, rising slowly and bringing down the writing materials from an upper shelf. "Now, fire away; I'm ready." But the captain hesitated, and was at a loss how to begin. He scratched his head in perplexity. "Dang it all!" he muttered.
"I'm glad somebody can sing," muttered Ann; but in the depths of her heart was a wish that her son, instead of her daughter, could have had the reason for song, if it were appointed to one only. "Women don't take things so hard as men," reasoned Ann Edwards. When Jerome knocked at Squire Merritt's door that evening, Mrs. Merritt opened it.
Before God, I have done nothing." The speaker was tremendously excited. "Well, Panfilo, that will take some proving," the Ranger muttered. "What do you say?" The gist of this statement having been repeated in Spanish, both prisoners burst into clamorous explanation of their presence together.
I would have had my game weeks ago, but for his appearance, confound him!" He looked at his watch. "Dinner first," he muttered, "the next thing in order is to find the alias under which my gentleman is at present travelling. No one seems to know much about him in these parts."
He had an ugly way of scowling and biting his nails when deeply brooding over any subject, and now he walked slowly up and down the floor with his head upon his breast, his brows drawn over his nose and his four fingers between his teeth, gnawing away like a wild beast, while he muttered: "She is not like the other one; she has more sense and strength; she will give us more trouble.
"Take the child that he may not scream, for if the prince should hear him he will turn back. He knows the voice of his little son!" "Yes, he knows the voice of his little son!" muttered the nurse, as she laid the child to her breast.
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