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She said her name was Gracie Cantrell, and Peter took her word for it. While she was eating she discoursed about herself, pleased at the interest this odd, dark-faced young fellow with the soft, drawling voice seemed to take in her. She had begun in a box factory, she told him. And then she'd been a candy-dipper. Now, you work in a lowered atmosphere in order not to spoil your chocolate.
"Yes, that's so," answered Sid Russell slowly, drawling his words out as if he had to drag them up through his long legs, "but that don't tell how you're goin' to bore out a big cane, fifteen feet long with a little iron rod not more 'n six or eight inches long." "Well, if you will be patient a moment, I'll show you," answered Sam, picking up the bit of iron.
As he did not dare to present himself at his parents' house, he sent his wife thither. And when Angele returned, she said to him, in her drawling voice: "Your mother expects you; she is not angry at all, she seems rather to be making fun of you. She told me several times that you could just put your sling back in your pocket." Aristide felt terribly vexed.
"It was just that I was tired that Uncle Peter's room was rather hot that I liked to hear the man sing I'm vairee well " Her drawling "vairee" sounded anything but well, it was almost a sob in itself. "Truly vairee well " She was still "very well" a few moments later when she and Janet settled themselves in the luxurious car. They were the oddest pair.
She sometimes seems to murmur within herself; full, deep, sharp, swift, drawling, trembling; now at the top, the middle, and the bottom of the scale. In short, in that little bill seems to reside all the melody which man has vainly labored to bring from a variety of musical instruments. Some even seem to be possessed of a different note from the rest, and contend with each other with great ardor.
Having at length gone through our turns and acquitted ourselves of all obligations, we slipped out, and went about among the houses, endeavoring to find horses for the day, so that we might ride round and see the country. At first we had but little success, all that we could get out of the lazy fellows, in reply to our questions, being the eternal drawling Quien sabe?
The latter rose at his approach, and Mr. Coulson summed him up quickly, a well-bred, pleasant-mannered, exceedingly athletic young Englishman, who was probably not such a fool as he looked, that is, from Mr. Coulson's standpoint, who was not used to the single eyeglass and somewhat drawling enunciation. "Mr. Coulson, isn't it?" the young man asked, accepting the other's outstretched hand.
Eight cadavers." With fingers that were almost frenzied, Houston copied the notation, closed the book, and hurried again for a taxicab. It yet was only nine o'clock. It the traffic were not too thick, if the driver were skilful He raced through the gate at Grand Central just as it was closing. He made the train in unison with the last drawling cry of the conductor.
Its inhabitants retained their broad drawling speech, very slightly modified from Tudor times, and looked with a mixture of distrust and envy even on their fellow county brethren in the Kennet Valley, who were being demoralized by their daily intercourse with London through the constantly growing traffic of the Bath road.
If it were trebled, however, I could do no more than I have done." "Why, yes," said Dupin, drawling, between the whiffs of his meerschaum, "I really think, G , you have not exerted yourself to the utmost in this matter. You might do a little more, I think; eh?" "How? in what way?" "Why" puff, puff "you might" puff, puff "employ counsel in the matter, eh" puff, puff, puff.
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