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The voice was low, vibrant, and so exceedingly musical that he might have been accused of coolly selecting his best tone; and it became only sweeter when, even more softly, in a semi-whisper of almost crucial pleading, he said, "Ah don't go away!"
"Cain killing Abel!" he repeated "Always the same horrible story is repeated through history brother against brother, blood crying out for blood life torn from the weak and helpless body all for what? For a little gold, a passing trifle of power! Cain killing Abel! My God, art Thou not yet weary of the old eternal crime!" He spoke in a semi-whisper which thrilled through the room.
We did not understand that you had hold of the hand. Was it stiff?" This in a semi-whisper of protest against the horror of the subject. "Not the least. Cold! oh, how cold!" She shudders of set purpose to show how cold. "But not stiff."
"Yes, yes," said Cicely; "do stay do, Molly! We want to hear a lot more about that remarkable girl Maggie Howland." "I can't stay," said Molly in a semi-whisper; "but I tell you what, girls." She seized a hand of both as she spoke. "I have come with news." "What?" "What?" asked the twins eagerly. "There's very seldom much news going on here," said Cicely.
"Louis," said the Baroness von Altenburg, in a semi-whisper, "your wife is one of those persons who cling to respectability like a tippler to his bottle. To her it is absolutely nothing how many women you may pursue or conquer so long as you remain here under her thumb, to be exhibited, in fair sobriety, upon the necessary public occasions. I pity you, my Louis."
She spoke the words in a proud, shy, exulting semi-whisper, somewhat as Gutenberg's wife might have asked after his printing-press. "No. I haven't had half an hour to myself to-day; at least when I could have attended to it. Don't be afraid, Carey, I'm not daunted by the doubts of our good friends. I see your eyes reproaching me with that."
"Good-night, Merry dear," said Maggie as Merry was walking towards the door. Then she added, in a semi-whisper which Merry did not catch, "And good-bye, Merry dear; we shall never meet again." Merry left the room, feeling full of apprehension. She thought for a minute as she stood outside. Then she went and knocked at Aneta's door. "Aneta, may I come in?" "Of course, dear.
The other was becoming interested in spite of himself, and his truculence melted a bit, although his tone was still sneering. "All right, Master Mind, how'd you handle it, how would you?" "A gun or knife is all right on some jobs," Hanlon leaned closer and spoke in a semi-whisper, but earnestly.