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The er habit of using such perfumes excessively in public," continued the colonel, looking down upon the innocent Pansy, and speaking in tones of deadly deliberation, "cannot be too greatly condemned, as well as the habit of er frequenting places of public resort in extravagant costumes, with er individuals who er intrude upon domestic privacy.
"This seems hallowed ground to me now," Darrell remarked. "It has always seemed so to me," Mr. Britton replied; "but remember, so long as you have need of the place it is always open to you." "'Until the day break and the shadows flee away," Darrell responded, in low tones, as though to himself. Mr. Britton caught his meaning.
Captain Cook, with several companions, went on shore, when most of the people ran away; but two, armed with lances, came down on the rocks to dispute the landing of the strangers, regardless of the presents which Captain Cook held out to them, flourishing their lances and shouting in discordant tones.
He spoke in rapid, cheerful tones, wishing to keep up Paul's spirits, in which effort he succeeded, as Paul's eyes sparkled, and a gleam of humor lighted up his face. "Well, Dr. Ware," he said, "I'm mighty glad to know what's the matter with me. Somehow you always feel better when you know, and I'll trust to your tea." He meant what he said. He knew Henry too well to doubt him.
With every event in the life of man the bell had made its voice heard. His mother also told him how the chiming of that old bell had once filled her heart with joy and confidence, and that in the midst of the sweet tones her child had been given to her. And the boy gazed on the large, old bell with the deepest interest.
A cannon ball whistling by my head would scare me half to death, but it wouldn't disturb them a bit. They'd look with an evil eye at that cannon ball as it flew by and say to it in threatening tones: 'What are you doing here? Let this fellow alone. He belongs to us." "Which way is McClellan coming, Harry?" asked St. Clair. "Off there to the east, where you hear the guns." "How many men has he?"
I think perhaps I have made the mistake of being too fastidious. But it seemed so fine a goal that one had in sight, to chasten and temper all one's thoughts to what was beautiful to judge and distinguish, to choose the right tones and harmonies, to be always rejecting and refining. It had its sorrows, of course.
'When you'd gone away, it said, 'I went to sand for a bit, and slept. I was tired out with all your silly wishes, and I felt as though I hadn't really been to sand for a year. 'To sand? Jane repeated. 'Where I sleep. You go to bed. I go to sand. Jane yawned; the mention of bed made her feel sleepy. 'All right, said the Psammead, in offended tones.
The convict wrung the hand of his preserver. He seemed to be trying to speak, but to have some great obstruction in his throat. Suddenly a bright light shone on the two men, and a voice was heard exclaiming, in low but very ferocious tones: "Do it, you scoundrel, or I'll put a bullet through your head!"
Abel than with Lady Lottie Passingham. Though Mrs. Abel had no desire to reform the universe, and was conscious of no mission to that end, she possessed a voice which might have produced a revolution. It was a soft contralto, vibrant and rich, and tremulous with tones which the gods would have come from Olympus to hear. She never sang, but her speech was music, rich and rare.
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