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The tall grown girls whispered to each other of possible Barchester parties, of possible allowances for dress, of a possible piano the one they had in the vicarage was so weather-beaten with the storms of years and children as to be no longer worthy of the name of the pretty garden, and the pretty house. 'Twas of such things it most behoved them to whisper.
'Are those verses your own, Mr Cumbermede? she asked, almost in a whisper. I turned trembling. Her lovely face was looking up at me. 'Yes, I answered 'as much my own as that I believe they are not to be found anywhere. But they were given to me rather than made by me. 'Would you let me have them? I am not sure that I understand them. 'I am not sure that I understand them myself.
In a short time, Sir Clement, taking from his pocket a folded paper, said, almost in a whisper, "Here, loveliest of women, you will see a faint, an unsuccessful attempt to paint the object of all my adoration! yet, weak as are the lines for the purpose, I envy beyond expression the happy mortal who has dared make the effort." "I will look at them," said I, "some other time."
And, as he listened, he hesitated again ... wondering after all whether Miriam was right. It was towards the end of their short silent dinner that very night the silence due to the fact that everybody was intently listening when Spinrobin caught the whisper of a singular faint sound that he took first to be the rising of wind.
It was sometime before she could command her feelings enough to say, in a husky whisper, "I never thought to ha' had a hand in such wonderful doin's, and how I held up through it, I can't tell. Glory to the Lord, the end has come; but, no not yet not quite; only enough for one day, Martha; isn't it?" "Betsy," said Martha, "please ride a little closer, and explain to me how it came about.
The officer gripped the sergeant's arm just above the elbow, bringing his mouth close up to his ear. "Don't move." The words were hardly breathed, so low was the tense, sudden whisper, and the two men crouched motionless, peering into the darkness which enveloped them. "Where, sir?"
She SHOULD look at him, that red-haired Shirley girl with the little pointed chin and the big eyes that weren't like the eyes of any other girl in Avonlea school. Gilbert reached across the aisle, picked up the end of Anne's long red braid, held it out at arm's length and said in a piercing whisper: "Carrots! Carrots!" Then Anne looked at him with a vengeance! She did more than look.
For an hour he sat there, and the fire died down. About him the rustle and whisper of the wild closed in nearer. It was his world, and he breathed more deeply and listened.
And often with a laugh some giant would hand his gun to a neighbor, swing me to his shoulder, and so give me a lift for a weary mile or two; and perchance whisper to me to put down my hand into the wallet of his shirt, where I would find a choice morsel which he had saved for his supper.
By this time these attentions had attracted the wonder of that acre of passengers, and the whisper had gone around that the royal family were present getting their baggage chalked; and as we passed down in review on our way to the door, I was conscious of a pervading atmosphere of envy which gave me deep satisfaction. But soon there was an accident.
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