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"Hem!" quoth the critic, a little staggered; but presently recovering his characteristic, acumen, he observed, "It is true, Paul; but that was the poverty of other people." There was a slight pause. "Criticism," renewed Paul, "must be a most difficult art." "A-hem! And what art is there, sir, that is not difficult, at least, to become master of?" "True," sighed Paul; "or else "
A light running conversation, something after this style, was kept up, with occasional pauses, for half an hour, when one of the visitors determined to come to the point. "Mrs. Todd a-hem!" she said in one of the pauses that always take place in uninteresting conversation. The lady's tone of voice had so changed from what it was a few moments before, that Mrs. Todd looked up at her with surprise.
"He'll probably tell you when he does." "Yes miss. It's as well to know a little beforehand, ain't it, miss. There's nothing in the a-hem 'ouse, and I suppose I'd have to buy something." "Please do." "Yes miss. Perhaps if you'd tell me what the gentleman likes I could go out and get it." "But I don't know what he likes. And wouldn't you get wet? Send somebody." "Yes miss. Who?"
I had her dress on, and I gave the old boy her words and her way of thinking; it was mere mimicry; it was nothing compared with what I once did; but, a-hem!" "Pray tell us!" "I am afraid I shall shock your friend. I see he is not a wicked man like you, and perhaps does not know what good-for-nothing creatures actresses are." "He is not so ignorant as he looks," replied Sir Charles.
Good morning, therefore; and, maternal relative, wishing the same to thee, with a less copious exhibition of the hydraulics, a-hem!" "Where is he going, mother, do you know?" asked Edward. "Indeed I don't know, Edward," she replied; "he seldom or never tells us anything about his motions; but it vexes me to think that his father won't make any allowance for his lightheartedness and fine spirits.
And Grandma's face, in spite of her reproachful tones, was, above all, blandly sunlike and expressive of anything rather than deluge and watery disaster. Grandpa was silent a little while, then coughed again I had never seen Grandpa in worse straits. "A-hem! a-hem! 'Fanny' seems to be a little lame, this mornin'," said he. "I shouldn't wonder. She's been goin' pretty stiddy this week."
He' closed the sympathetic eye, and wiped it but this not seeming to satisfy him, he then closed both, and blew his nose with a little skeleton mealy handkerchief that lay on a sack beside him for that purpose. "Hem a-hem! why, thin, Mrs. Dalton, it isn't to my poor place I expected you would come."
He looked strong and well comparatively. Bax and he started, and gazed in surprise on each other. "How are you?" said Denham with some stiffness of manner. "Thank you, very well," answered Bax. Then both men felt and looked a little awkward. "A-hem!" coughed Denham. "Hope you're well, sir?" said Bax. There was little in the words, but there was much in the tone in which this was said.
"My son we your lawful Superior, and the Abbot, under God's favour, of the community of Saint Mary's, have heard of your manifold good gifts a-hem especially touching wood-craft and the huntsman-like fashion in which you strike your game, truly and as a yeoman should, not abusing Heaven's good benefits by spoiling the flesh, as is too often seen in careless rangers a-hem."
In the evening he went out again on his balcony, taking care to place the light behind him; for he knew that a shadow always wants his master for a screen; but he could not entice him out. He made himself little, and he made himself tall; but there was no shadow, and no shadow came. He said, "Hem, a-hem;" but it was all useless.
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