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Then a voice, soft in quality, with casual, pleasant, unemphasised cadence, said, "Considering these vile roads, she's running extraordinarily well. Really, something ought to be done about the roads, though; it's absolutely disgraceful. Blake says ..." one of the things that chauffeurs do say, and that Peter did not listen to. Peter had stopped suddenly where he was when the speaker had laughed.
He might perhaps have yielded, but the unemphasised contempt in that last sentence was more than he could bear. It demonstrated to him more completely than set terms could have done what a paltry weakling he would appear in Amy's eyes if he took his hat down from the peg and set out to obey her orders. 'You are asking too much, he said, with unexpected coldness.
But, apart from the glamour of physical skill and strength and the official glory of captainship, the same charm worked on mother and son. The soft, quick, unemphasised voice, with the break of a laugh in it, had precisely the same disturbing effect on both. "Well," Urquhart was saying, "when will they let you play again?
Clifford Pyncheon is a still more remarkable conception, though he is perhaps not so vividly depicted. It was a figure needing a much more subtle touch, however, and it was of the essence of his character to be vague and unemphasised.
The words, and the echo of the soft, pleasant, casual voice, with its unemphasised intonations, spread lifting wings for him, and bore him above the aching pain that stayed with him through the night.
Yet there are some of the most astounding visions of this sort in Europe which are, and will probably remain, unemphasised for travellers. The vision of the Berenese Oberland when it breaks upon one from the crest of Jura has been impressed upon English people, at least in two fine passages: the one written by Ruskin, the other, if I remember right, in a book called A Cruise upon Wheels.
Didn't you notice anything? Didn't anything make you suspect what she was going to do?" "I never for a moment foresaw it," replied Will, with unemphasised sincerity. "Yet she must have made up her mind whilst you were there. Her astounding hypocrisy! I had a letter a few days before, the same as usual " "Quite the same?" "Absolutely! Well, there was no difference that struck me.
He was going to dine somewhere at eight, so he hadn't much time. "Glad to see you, Margery. Quite time you came." Peter thought it nice of him to speak so pleasantly, seeming to ignore the last time Peter had come to see him. He had been restrained and embarrassed then; now he was friendly, in the old casual, unemphasised way. "How splendid about you and Lucy," said Peter.
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