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Grey's voice with its broad intonation, in which a strong native homeliness lingered under the gentleness of accent, recited the collect 'Lord of all power and might, a silent pause following the last words. Then the audience settled itself, and Mr. Grey, standing by a small deal table with the gaslight behind him, began his address.
In that man you possess a true friend." "I will give him you, if you like," she answered; "he will serve you with the same devotion that he has for me, if I so instruct him." She waited for a word of recognition, and went on with an accent replete with tenderness: "Adolphe, give me then one kind word!... It is nearly day." Henri did not answer.
As soon as we meet a Russian, an Italian, a Swede, a Spaniard, or an Englishwoman with a pretty face, we immediately fall in love with her. We enthuse over everything which comes from outside clothes, hats, gloves, guns and women. But what a blunder! "I believe that that which pleases us in foreign women is their accent.
It would be only a matter of a few minutes, and then the isolation, the mystery, the return to a sweet past to that intimacy in the studio where they had passed their happiest hours. They would believe that no time had elapsed since their first meetings. "No," she faltered with a weakening accent, seeking a last resistance. "Besides, your secretary might be there, that Spaniard who lives with you.
"She wants to see you," whispered Eliza. "Go downrs, Eliza, this minute. I wont see her." "Mrs. Myers," cried the voice. Marian again shrank from the sound. "Mrs. My-ers. Aunt Sally. Come to your poor Soozy." Mrs. Myers looked perplexedly at Marian. The voice resumed after a pause, with an affected Yankee accent, "I guess I'll raise a shine if you dont come." "I must go," said Mrs. Myers.
Those who make any pretence at it, usually speak it with an accent, a pronunciation and a nonchalance which show that they have taken no pains whatever to acquire it. Evidently it pays better to spend money educating natives in French than Frenchmen in Arabic. It is an amusing fact that most of the teachers have produced their own text-books, few of which possess special merit.
"Are you one of those Reds?" And what could poor Peter say? How could he explain his acquaintance with that Teutonic face and that Teutonic accent? The girl stamped her foot with impatient anger. "So you're one of those Reds! You're one of those pro-German traitors! You're an imposter, a spy!" Peter was helpless with embarrassment and dismay. "Miss Frisbie," he began, "I can't explain "
Here the technical figure takes precedence over the law of the phrase, and so most virtuosi place the accent on the fifth finger, regardless of the pattern. This is as it should be. In Klindworth there is a misprint at the beginning of the fifteenth bar from the end in the bass. It should read B natural, not B flat.
Her language, both in the pronunciation and accent, was perfect: she had even caught the trick of phrase and idea natural to the peasantry; and she had neither underdone it nor overdone it.
The hotel-keepers here have but very slight faith in the respectability of travellers who do not come in the usual way that is to say, by train or omnibus, or something with wheels, though it be but a bicycle. If he speaks with a foreign accent, he is doubly deserving of suspicion.
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