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"It's always the way with them Methodists," said one speaker in a careful undertone, a venerable body of fifty or so, with four teeth left in his head, bent, bald and wrinkled. "They pride themselves on what they call 'extem-pore' speaking." He gave the word only three syllables of course. He said 'any other infirmity, did you notice? And we say, 'any other adversity, don't we?
The prospect of remaining where they were through the dismal hours of darkness was anything but cheering. "Jack," suddenly said Fred in a guarded undertone, "there's some wild animal near us." "How can you know that?" "I heard him moving about." "In what direction?" "Just beyond the ridge there. Hark! Didn't you hear it?" "You are right," whispered Jack; "let's find out what it is."
For two minutes he paid no heed to Darrin, save to return the salute with which the young ensign greeted his superior's return to command of the deck. Presently, however, Lieutenant Cantor stepped over to say in an undertone: "Darrin, you have made the wrong start, and I see that you are bound to keep it up." "I am trying to do my duty, sir," Darrin returned.
A carriage, passing at that moment close to the curb, had prevented the two men from hearing the stranger's footfall, and as the latter stood on the top step, searching in his pocket for matches, he happened to catch the name "Sansevero." At once his attention was arrested, but as the conversation was carried on in an undertone, he caught only vague, detached words.
It was Anthea who said, in a hurried undertone, 'She isn't very nice, and Miss Peasmarsh is pretty and nice too. Who's got a pencil? It was a long crawl, under three stalls, but Anthea did it. A large piece of pale blue paper lay among the rubbish in the corner.
To my inquiry whether his fellow-pensioners were comfortable and happy, he answered, with great alacrity, "O yes, sir!" qualifying his evidence, after a moment's consideration, by saying in an undertone, "There are some people, your Honor knows, who could not be comfortable anywhere."
"Not with that blinking thing going off behind me," said the barman, craning over the blind. "Very well," said the man with the black beard, and stooping down, revolver ready, drew them himself. Barman, cabman, and policeman faced about. "Come in," said the bearded man in an undertone, standing back and facing the unbolted doors with his pistol behind him. No one came in, the door remained closed.
"Hear, hear!" Horace could not help throwing in, though in so discreet an undertone that it was inaudible. "Far be this from me," replied Fakrash. "For he has become unto me even as a favourite son, whom I design to place upon the golden pinnacle of felicity.
The doctor, his daughter, and Lionel were sitting on a couch apart, conversing in an undertone; the rest disposed themselves as they would. Dr. West had accepted a cup of coffee. He kept it in his hand, sipping it now and then, and slowly ate a biscuit. "Mr. Jan tells me Sibylla is not very strong," he observed, addressing both of them, but more particularly Lionel. "Not very," replied Lionel.
"There ain't a bob on the beach," said Grubb in an undertone, and the Desert Dervishes plied their bicycles with comic "business," that got a laugh from one very unsophisticated little boy. Then they took a deep breath and struck into the cheerful strain of "What Price Hair-pins Now?"
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