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Updated: May 11, 2025
The tiny creatures of the air droned outside. Everywhere was peace and the gentle benevolence of peace. But within this room, split off from the great chamber of a church, events covert and sinister seemed preparing to assemble. My father, big and dominant, was behind the table, his great shoulders blotting out the window. Mr.
"Why, of course!" said little Eve Edgarton. "Well, I must say it was an exceedingly clumsy one!" growled her father irritably. "Maybe so," droned little Eve Edgarton with unruffled serenity. "It was the first joke, you see, that I ever made." Slowly again her eyes began to widen. "All the same, Father," she said, "his " "Hush!" he ordered, and slammed the door conclusively behind him.
He sank into a half sleep as the iron wheels roared and droned beneath him. A Piece of Paper In the little desert hotel at Stacey, Mrs. Adams was singing softly to herself as she moved about the dining-room helping Anita clear away the breakfast dishes. Mrs. Adams had heard from Lorry. He had secured a place in the Ranger Service. She was happy.
I will tell you how to serve your country.... There's a schooner called the 'J.M. Chapman. Do you know where it lies?" "No," Benito answered, "but that's easily discovered. If you've anything to say go on." McTurpin's bony fingers clutched Benito's sleeve. "Listen," he said. "Bend nearer." His voice droned on, at times imperceptible, again hoarse with excitement. Benito sat moveless, absorbed.
So his mind droned on like this, as it always did after a deep thought of her image, until he was able to find enough of himself to make the choice to part from her.
"Just saved ourselves," whispered Kinch; "a minute later and we would have been done for;" and with this closing remark he applied himself to his grammar, a very judicious move on his part, for he had not looked at his lesson, and there were but ten minutes to elapse before the class would be called. The lessons were droned through as lessons usually are at school.
His appeal was answered by a rapturous shout; the flutes and cymbals piped and clanged, metal cups rang sharply as the drinkers pledged each other, and the girls thumped their tambourines, till the calf-skin droned and the bells in the frames tinkled shrilly. Olympius thanked them, and bowed on all sides, as he walked from group to group of his adherents.
The bees droned around the honeysuckle that billowed over the little iron fence about a family burying lot, and once Lynn Severn's laugh not her regular laugh, but a kind of a company polite one echoed lightly across to his ears and his face dropped into his hands. He almost groaned.
The radiance faded and a shadowy velvet veiled the mountains, a humid depth of gloom behind which lurked all the mysteries of life and death, while above, the clouds hung ashen and dull; lights twinkled and flashed along the shore, boats glided in the twilight, and the little puffing of motors droned away.
Bland keeping vigil by a telephone switchboard in the office below, watching for the flash of light that should tell them some one in the outside world wanted to speak to Baldpate Inn; a mysterious figure who flitted about in the dark; a beautiful girl who was going to ask Mr. Magee to do her a service, blindly trusting her. The professor droned on monotonously. Once Mr.
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