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Her limbs were shivering, and red with fever; large livid patches marbled her skin, which had become wrinkled in places as if she had lost flesh. She had grown older. Suzanne, on entering the room, was struck with surprise to find her up. In a placid, drawling tone, she advised her to go to bed again, and continue resting.
One day a tall, angular, hoosier-like young fellow, whose limbs appeared to be fastened with leather hinges, entered the pilot-house, and in a peculiar, drawling voice, said "'Good mawnin, sir. Don't you want to take er piert young fellow and teach 'im how to be er pilot? "'No sir; there is more bother about it than it's worth. "'I wish you would, mister.
Insensibly almost, my pride was quelled, and I became humble and religiously inclined. Even the peculiarities of the sect, their meeting at their places of worship, their drawling, and their quaint manner of talking, became no longer a subject of dislike. I found out causes and good reasons for everything which before appeared strange sermons in stones, and good in everything.
"They're in earnest about trifles," she said to herself, "and trifle about earnest things." Yet it irritated her to feel that, though they would care not at all for her low opinion of them, she did care a great deal because they would fail to appreciate her. "They ought to be jailed," Langdon was drawling with considerable emphasis. "Who, Mr. Langdon?" inquired Mrs.
He brought his sister once, a fair-haired girl about Stella's age. She proved an exceedingly self-contained young person, whose speech during the hour of her stay amounted to a dozen or so drawling sentences. With no hint of condescension or superciliousness, she still managed to arouse in Stella a mild degree of resentment.
I had remarked that from the time the breeze freshened, the everlasting Yankee drawling of the crew, and the endless confabulation of the captain and his mate, had entirely ceased, and nothing was now heard on deck but the angry voice of the raging elements, and at intervals a shrill piercing word or two from Obed, in the altered tone of which I had some difficulty in recognising his pipe, which rose clear and distinct above the roar of the sea and wind, and was always answered by a prompt, sharp, "ay, ay, sir," from the men.
Standing there in his blue flannel shirt and corduroy trousers, clasped tight to knee by high brown boots below them, Stephen O'Mara held out a sinewy brown hand. His voice was a little unsteady, but the mimicry of his own drawling speech of former years held an echo of boyhood a twanging, boyish echo which dragged at Caleb's very heartstrings. "Haow haow d'ye do, Uncle Cal?" he quavered.
"Est-il permis, Monsieur?" now interposed the Creole, taking my hand, and pointing towards the house. "And the steamer?" said I, in a tone as drawling as I could make it, and without moving a pace in the direction indicated. "Oh! that will wait," replied Ménou, smiling. What could I do with such a persevering fellow?
The mountaineer slowly raised himself to a sitting position, passed a hand over his forehead, and asked: "What's hospitality?" The question, the drawling quality of his voice which sounded as mellow as though someone had struck a chord upon a harp, surprised them out of an answer. Rousing further, he continued: "I hain't got no friends 'round hyar lest, as Ruth says, all things is friends."
"Sleepy?" called Wilbur. She waited a moment and then queried with exaggerated impudence: "Well?" Ennui unspeakable was in that drawling monotone. "Brace up; I've got news for you." Her hand moved and all the graceful body, but it was only with a yawn. What need was there to speak? She wished to be alone. "And I've brought Pierre along to tell you about it. "Oh!"
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