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Missy thought the interruptions, though proper and lending an atmosphere of fervour, rather a pity because they spoiled the effective rise and fall of the minister's voice. There was one recurrent nasal falsetto which especially threw you off the religious track. It belonged to old Mrs. Lemon.
At last I got up and limped on, stiffer than ever from my rest, when a gig drove past me towards Cambridge, drawn by a stout cob, and driven by a tall, fat, jolly-looking farmer, who stared at me as he passed, went on, looked back, slackened his pace, looked back again, and at last came to a dead stop, and hailed me in a broad nasal dialect "Whor be ganging, then, boh?" "To Cambridge."
"And you would thrust on me a wife?" "I would remind you of your lady's existence, sir, which the law recognizes if you do not." "Favor me with an account of her with her name, her parentage, her place of abode." "Certainly." Mr. Briggs calmly took a paper from his pocket, and read out in a sort of official, nasal voice:
She smelled something burning then, and bolted for the kitchen, where her sharp, rather nasal voice was heard upbraiding Minnie for some neglect. Polycarp Jenks came in, eyed Val and Manley from under one lifted, eyebrow, smiled skinnily, and pulled out a chair with a rasping noise, and sat down facing them.
The marchande des calas was out. She came toward Joseph's shop, singing in a high-pitched nasal tone this new song: "Dé'tit zozos yé té assis Dé'tit zozos si la barrier. Dé'tit zozos, qui zabotté; Qui ça yé di' mo pas conné. "Manzeur-poulet vini simin, Croupé si yé et croqué yé; Personn' pli' 'tend' yé zabotté Dé'tit zozos si la barrier."
They turned their lustreless eyes upon the visitors, and a portly woman in a red waist with a little American flag in a buttonhole issued to them a nasal command to rise. They got to their feet with a starched noise, like dead leaves blowing, and St. George eagerly scanned their faces.
I dodged his arm, and then, gathering myself together, landed my fist fairly and squarely upon the tip of his nose, a blow that knocked him off his feet and sent him rolling to the ground. To say that I was astonished at what I had done would not express my entire feelings. I was amazed, and could hardly credit my own eyesight. Yet there he lay, the blood flowing from the end of his nasal organ.
Get the tale of any honest tramp, you will find it was always the poor who helped him; get the truth from any workman who has met misfortunes, it was always next door that he would go for help, or only with such exceptions as are said to prove a rule; look at the course of the mimetic beggar, it is through the poor quarters that he trails his passage, showing his bandages to every window, piercing even to the attics with his nasal song.
"Thought so," he replied, as one versed. His tones took on a nasal twang. "Well, as I was saying, I've about got ready to settle down, and I've had my eye on the lady this seven years." "Marvel of constancy!" said Virginia. "And the lady?" "The lady," said Eliphalet, bluntly, "is you."
"The doors were all standing wide," said a cautious nasal voice, speaking English, at the other side of the wall. "Our fox hath barely sprung from cover. He must be near." "Is not that the top of a ladder?" inquired another voice. At this there was a rush for the gate. Madockawando's daughter ran like the wind, with Saint-Castin's hand locked in hers.
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