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By God, I'll kill th' man phwat says that!" "Slowly, slowly," James answered, soothingly, thoroughly enjoying his father's amazement and excitement. "That's for them to settle as knows how, but it's to me Mr. Gorham must look to help him out. Now, do you understand where I come in?" "Ah, Jimmie, ye're killin' me wid yer slowness. Out wid it, la-ad! What do they say, an' who done phwat?
But Will Hen Baizley was there, so he held himself manfully erect, and glared defiantly at the tough who was grinning over the fence. Mr. Hand pushed past and was about to open the gate, when Will spoke: "That's all right, Mr. Hand," said the tactful youth, soothingly. "Of course I can't blame you. Don't think I blame you.
It must not stare me in the face!" "Yes, dear Clifford, the picture shall be covered," said Hepzibah soothingly. "There is a crimson curtain in a trunk above stairs, a little faded and moth-eaten, I'm afraid, but Phoebe and I will do wonders with it." "This very day, remember" said he; and then added, in a low, self-communing voice, "Why should we live in this dismal house at all?
"Oh, catch it! kill it, Edward!" cried Zoe, with a half frantic rush to the farther side of the room. "Oh, here it comes after me! It's settling on my hair! Oh!" "No, dear, it isn't, there is really nothing there," Edward said soothingly, yet with a laugh, for a second thought had told him the real cause of the disturbance.
"Still frightened?" he asked her very tenderly. "Still wantin' to run away?" She hid her face against him dumbly. She could not answer him in words. He went on speaking, softly, soothingly, as if she had been a child. "People make a ridiculous fuss about gettin' married," he said.
"No; but the consciousness that it was not true would be always with me, poisoning my mind, and darkening my life and yours." "Your views of life are entirely too tragic, Clara," the young man argued soothingly.
His tone was so rude and his manner so aggressive, that his niece was about to protest. I made a sign to her, however, not to do so. "I don't think you need be afraid, Mr. Kitwater," I said more soothingly than I felt. "My man is a very clever and reliable fellow, and you may be sure that, having once set eyes on Mr. Hayle, he will not lose sight of him again.
Tom and Peter, who were standing by, immediately went to the inn, filled a jug with water, and, taking a drinking horn and some bread, went back. One of the guards angrily ordered them back as they approached. "I am not going to free them," Tom said, soothingly; "there can be no reason why they should die of thirst, if they are enemies."
"There!" he said soothingly, "you'll feel differently in the morning. We'll go and look at it, anyway." Her quick ear, however, detected an undertone which, if not precisely resentment, was akin to the vexation that an elderly gentleman might be justified in feeling who has taken the same walk for twenty years, and is one day struck by a falling brick.
The chairman of many charities looked, moreover, a little puzzled, as if the situation was beyond his comprehension. The Frenchman's pleasant voice again broke in, soothingly and yet authoritatively. "Mr. Cornish and a certain number of us have, for some time, been in correspondence," he said.
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