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Updated: July 8, 2025
He was, indeed, different from the seemingly easy-going, gentle-spoken Cap'n Abe, the storekeeper. They had scarcely started up the Shell Road when the whir of a fast-running automobile sounded behind them and the mellow hoot of a horn. Louise turned to see a great touring car take the curve from the direction of The Beaches and glide swiftly toward them. Lawford Tapp was guiding the car.
'It's a great relief, archdeacon, said Mr Harding, 'A great relief dear good, excellent old man. Oh that our last moments may be as innocent and peaceful as his! 'Surely, said Mrs Phillips. 'The Lord be praised for all his mercies; but, for a meek, mild, gentle-spoken Christian, his lordship was and Mrs Phillips, with unaffected but easy grief, put up her white apron to her flowing eyes.
Until the gale fell and the tide turned they could not possibly get out to Gull Rocks. "A brave man is Cap'n Amazon," Lawford Tapp said. "And if Cap'n Abe was in the schooner's crew Why, Professor Grayling! surely you must remember him? Not a big man, but with heavy gray beard and mustache and very bald. Mild blue eyes and very gentle-spoken. Don't you remember him in the crew of the Curlew?"
The manito was very pleasant with Monedowa, and after much other discourse, in a gentle-spoken voice, he invited him to the racing-ground, saying it was a manly amusement, that he would have an excellent chance to meet there with other warriors, and that he should himself be pleased to run with him. Monedowa would have excused himself, saying that he knew nothing of running.
"You well deserve to be hanged, if only because you have brought this woman, who is fair and gentle-spoken, to such a life," said Nigel. "Let us tie him by the wrist to my stirrup leather, Aylward, and we will lead him into Guildford." The archer drew a spare bowstring from his case and had bound the prisoner as directed, when Nigel gave a sudden start and cry of alarm. "Holy Mary!" he cried.
Here, right by my side, was the actual ogre who, in fights and brawls and various ways, had taken the lives of twenty-six human beings, or all men lied about him! I suppose I was the proudest stripling that ever traveled to see strange lands and wonderful people. He was so friendly and so gentle-spoken that I warmed to him in spite of his awful history.
My days are peaceful now, and my night's sleep deep. He had a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes, and his sad, insistent voice, gentle-spoken as a maid's, seemed the placid embodiment of some deep-seated melancholy. He was the Leopard Man, but he did not look it.
My life on it, had one happened to pass at a later hour than common near the night-post of that gentle-spoken soldier, he would not have been found, like a sentinel of this household, in the second watch of the night that is gone, dreaming of the good things of the Madam's buttery."
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