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So with a malicious smile, and in a drawling tone, he replied: "Then monsieur must give me the money. Monsieur knows very well that neither the grocer nor the wine-merchant will trust him any longer." M. de Fondege rose from the table, looking very pale; but before he had time to utter a word, his wife came to the rescue. "You know, my dear, that I don't trust the key of my cellar to this lad.
"Do not lie for me, monsieur," he went on in his indolent, drawling French that already had come to have a pleasant quaintness in my ears. "Monsieur, let me speak to the father." If Nature had given me a third hand, I should have used it to throttle the Englishman. "Get back in the canoe!" I stormed. He motioned me away.
He'd be troubled if he knew you were turned enemy to it on his account." "I'm for justice, Steve. This skunk deserves death and I'm going to see he gits it." "No, Tom." "I say yes. Y'u ain't sitting in this game, Steve." "I reckon I'll have to take a hand then." The ranger's voice was soft and drawling, but his eyes were indomitably steady.
"Oh, for the sake of a girl like that one might not only go into the Zemstvo, but even wear out iron shoes, like the girl in the fairy tale. And Misuce? What a sweet creature she is, that Misuce!" Byelokurov, drawling out "Er er," began a long-winded disquisition on the malady of the age pessimism. He talked confidently, in a tone that suggested that I was opposing him.
Nuttall remarks in reference to this bird, "His simple, rather drawling, and somewhat plaintive song, uttered at short intervals, resembled the syllables 'te dé teritscá, sometimes te derisca, pronounced pretty loud and slow, and the tones proceeded from high to low.
"How can you tell that way?" the boy asked, wondering. "It's half past nine, ex-actly," remarked Jim, drawling out the last word. Bertie looked up at the sky, but could tell nothing about the time. "It takes experience to do it," said the man, laughing at his perplexed look. "I've had thirty-eight years to learn."
The habit of this bird, as I learned by observation of him afterward, was to sit on the highest twig of a tree dead at the top, where he could command a view of the whole neighborhood, and sing or call by the hour, in a loud, drawling, and rather plaintive tone, somewhat resembling the wood pewee's, though more animated in delivery.
"We didn't count on havin' races; we're havin' speeches and some singin'." The Yankee laughed good-humoredly. "Well, friend, I pass there; but mother here is a W.C.T.U.-er from away back. She'll knock the spots off the liquor business in fifteen minutes, if you'd like anything in that line." His wife interposed in her easy, drawling tones: "Now, Abe, you best shet up and drive along.
The higgling for the price of the gold; the time lost in disputing about the goodness of the notes, among some poor tenants, who could not read or write, and who were at the mercy of the man with the bag in his hand; the vexation, the useless harassing of all who were obliged to submit ultimately Lord Colambre saw: and all this time he endured the smell of tobacco and whiskey, and the sound of various brogues, the din of men wrangling, brawling, threatening, whining, drawling, cajoling, cursing, and every variety of wretchedness.
Inspired by a common instinct, they began at once to bait one of their number, a slight youngster of twelve years, much better clothed than the rest, who had adventurously strolled in from a neighbouring manufactory. This child answered their jibes in an amiable, silly, drawling tone which seemed to justify the epithet 'Loony, frequently applied to him.
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