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Maria had followed the first verses silently with her eyes, but now her lips began to move and in a low, rapid tone, but audibly she read: "Sometimes it echoes like the thunder's peal, Then soft and low through the May night doth steal; Sometimes, on joyous wing, to Heaven it soars, Sometimes, like Philomel, its woes deplores.
And all the little girls wept into their handkerchiefs, while the boys sniffed audibly. "Bless their hearts," said Mrs. Batcheller to Miss Mary, "it's too bad to have them cry." But the Judge, who was a keen observer of human nature, shook his head. "A little sadness now and then won't hurt them," he said. "It is the shadows that make us appreciate the sunshine, you know."
Some one else nearly upset him with one before he reached the middle, and the Texan remarked, quite audibly, as he passed: "The damned razor-back!" But the man made his way to the end of the table and drew out the chair opposite Miss Carmichael with a degree of assurance that precipitated the rest of the table into a pretty pother. Suppose she should countenance his audacity?
The broken question was completed by his look, and when I said that I quite understood and agreed with him he crowed his little laugh. 'Have you a large library? he inquired, eyeing me wistfully. 'Oh dear, no. Only a few hundred volumes. Too many for one who has no house of his own. He smiled good-naturedly, bent his head, and murmured just audibly: 'My catalogue numbered 24,718.
Still darker shows the fear upon the face of the captive girl, as she thinks of this special privilege accorded to the cacique, of which she has been made aware. It must be he who is drawing near, and with him a danger she has long vaguely apprehended. For some seconds she remains intently listening, her young heart pulsing audibly within her breast.
There were gasps of alarm and sighs of relief. The driver of the truck swore audibly, but it was more a prayer than an oath. The colonel, grimy and muddy, was set on his feet by his rescuer, and several men gathered about. The colonel was a bit-dazed, but not so much so that he could not hear several murmur: "He saved his life all right!"
Long, very long thou hast burnt up my heart like fuel, and mocked me, and laughed at my idle efforts; but now, now, I have thee. Fame, Honour, Immortality, whatever thou art called, I have thee, and thou canst not escape; but it is almost too late!" And, as if wrung by some sudden pain, the sleeper turned heavily round, groaned audibly, and awoke.
Three stirring months passed before the Claverhouse returned to . When she arrived at the gunboat guarding the torpedo channel, she took a pilot, and proceeded into the harbour in a law-abiding manner, while her captain, audibly and inaudibly, declaimed against a Government whose barbarous notions led them to impose restrictions that caused expense and interrupted the normal process of navigation.
This is known by hearing the answers brought to the queries from the several quarterly meetings, which are audibly read by the clerk or his assistant, and are taken in rotation alphabetically.
"This company," Lord Arranmore remarked lightly, "is hostile to me. Let us go and play pool." Lady Caroom rose up promptly. Molyneux groaned audibly. "You shall play me at billiards instead," she declared. "I used to give you a good game once, and I have played a great deal lately. Ring for Annette, will you, Sybil? She has my cue." Sybil Caroom made room for Brooks by her side.
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