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She was leaning back in an Empire chair, her shoulders poised against the top her body, flexibly straight and unsupported from the hips, swaying when she moved, as though giving to the arms of a lover. Her lips were smiling, her eyes half-closed. It may have been a recognition of danger in the very charm of her attitude, or a twang of digestion, that caused a sudden dumbness to fall on James.
There was a lake there that had salt in it, and not far off was the sea. "In America," she said, and she gave such a sweet and novel twang to her words, "we had a cow of our own, and two horses and a wagon and a dog." "Yes," joined in her little brother, "and nice chickens and a goose." "But," continued the sister, "we owns none o' them here.
Vrain became excited she usually spoke plain English, without the U. S. A. accent, but on growing calmer, and, as it were, recollecting herself, she adopted the Yankee twang and their curious style of expression and ejaculation.
There was also, perhaps with a little redolence of port wine, as it were the slightest possible twang, in Mr Staple's voice. In these days Tom Staple was not a very happy man; University reform had long been his bugbear, and now was his bane.
In consequence of thy evil counsels, O king, dreadful was the battle that then ensued in which maces and lances were used and in which heroes only took part. The twang of bow-string was no longer heard there, for all the car-warriors stood as spectators of that fight. At that time no difference could be seen between the contending parties.
Pill seized the can of milk, saying, with a twang: "Show me the way that I may walk therein," and, accompanied by the laughing girl, made rapid way to the pig-pen just as the old man set up a ferocious shout to call the hired hand out of the corn-field. "How'd y' come to send him here?" asked Mrs. Buttles, nodding toward Pill. "Damfino!
"You-bet-y'u," replied the second voice, slurring his words together as young men do, and giving them that jolly twang peculiar to the college boy. "Yes, sir, Dick Gordon is some boy, and I'll be mighty glad to see him." Grace almost pinched Cleo's arm to the yelling point. "That's my Jackie the one who owns my marine room," she said in a low voice. "Keep your window locked," cautioned Cleo.
But before you smile at it, permit me to explain that it is no whit worse than when you say: "What! Are you an American? But you don't speak with an accent!" Or possibly you call it a "twang" or you say "speak through your nose."
"Caught the final twang as you tuned it on my arrival." "I'll bring it if you like." "Please." He hurried to his room, placed the banjo in its case and threw it over his shoulder. She had promised to be ready in ten minutes and have the horses at the door. She was ready in eight minutes, and leaped into the saddle before he could reach her side.
Their immovable phlegm, their long, expressionless faces, the dull, monotonous twang of their voices, the oscillation of the three large feet hung over the bony knees had now, as often before, a singular effect upon Farnham's irritation. He felt he could not irritate them in return; they could not appreciate his motives, and thought too little of his opinion to be angry at his contempt.
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