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Years had dried on her face, leaving ravages, and through her high-power spectacles her pale eyes might have been staring through film and straining to see. "Please, Dee Dee!" Miss Barnet held backward, a little singsong note of appeal running through her voice. Miss Worte jerked forward toward the open door. April dusk, the color of cold dish-water, showed through it.
He opened the little book again and read. He read steadily for a quarter of an hour in a monotonous, singsong voice, and John Minute slowly sat himself erect and listened with tense face and narrow eyelids to the record. He did not interrupt until the other had finished. "Half of your facts are lies," he said harshly. "Some of them are just common gossip; some are purely imaginary."
The name Winona implies much of honor. It means charitable, kind, helpful; all that an eldest sister should be! The herald goes around the ring of lodges announcing in singsong fashion the christening, and inviting everybody to a feast in honor of the event. A real American christening is always a gala occasion, when much savage wealth is distributed among the poor and old people.
"Here you are, sir," she cries, in shrill newsboy singsong; "the full, true and particular account of the tragedy at Catheron Royals. Sounds like the title of a sensation novel, doesn't it? Here's No. 1 for you I've got on as far as No. 4." Miss Darrell throws aside her work and becomes absorbed in the Chesholm Courier of twenty-three years back.
"Runner out at third," called Tozier in a singsong voice. "Side out!" "Yet who cared?" Dick's wonderful blow on the leather had brought three men in safe. The Souths followed at bat. One, two, three, Prescott struck them out. Ted Teall's face looked solemn, indeed. "Wells, we've simply got to hold these fellows down," grunted Teall to his catcher in the brief conference for which there was time.
He exclaimed sharply in his singsong language and stepped toward them in a manner that had only one meaning, a threat of violence. Instantly the four Chinese resumed their work over the meat and the kettles, and although they rolled their black eyes furtively toward Teeny-bits and the English master they said nothing more, nor could they be induced to show further sign of excitement.
Not that she would come to it vacant-minded, but rather as a trained woman, starved for companionship and wanting something of the beauty and ease of life. She sat dreaming of it here with rows of dark faces before her, and the singsong wail of a little black reader with his head aslant and his patched kneepants.
There was a general laugh, in the midst of which Mr. Gresley, whose complexion had deepened, sprang to his feet and endeavored to attract Dick's attention, but Dick saw nothing but his audience. Mr. Gresley began to speak in his high, "singsong" voice. "My young friend," he said, "has mistaken the object of this meeting. In short I must "
No comment followed. They returned to camp, and I reflected a while. The commander said: "I fear you are disappointed." "Yes," I said; "they are too monotonous, too singsong, to dead-and-alive; they have no expression, no elocution. It isn't natural; it could never happen in real life. A person who had just acquired a dog is either blame' glad or blame' sorry. He is not on the fence.
Her hands were steady; she was even smiling as she produced two neat little packets that, on being unfolded, proved to have all the air of permits, laissez-passers, and police cards. Two nondescript photographs, which might have represented almost any one, adorned them, and of these our sergeant made a perfunctory survey. "Mademoiselle's name," he recited in a high singsong, "is Marie Le Clair.
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