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No amount of gesturing and jabbering could make them understand that it was necessary for the girls to return at once. "We'll never get back," Marian mourned in despair, "and it's all my fault." "Oh, we'll make it still," encouraged Lucile, cheerfully. "Probably the Straits are not fully frozen over yet anyway." However, after a week of inaction, even Lucile lost her cheerful smile.
"I suppose there is a secretary?" he asked suddenly. "Oh yes," answered the green cloak, "I'm it." "And, 'a young daughter who attends' " " 'to all my simple wants? That's me, too." "But you can't be 'my Chinese servant, a factotum extraordinary?" "No, you have already met Li Ho." "There?" queried the professor, gesturing weakly. "Yes." Spence pulled himself together.
But on the veranda, amid a weeping, prattling, squealing and gesturing of women and children, Anna could not distinguish the bursting of the foe's shells from the answering thunder of Confederate guns, and when in a bare ten minutes unarmed soldiers began to come out of the smoke and to hurry through the grove, while riders of harnessed horses and mules harnessed to nothing lashed up the levee road at full run, and Isaac and Ben proudly cried that one was Mahs' Chahlie and that the animals were theirs of Callender House, she still asked over the balustrade how the fight had gone.
If she should open up to you, maybe you'd see your way to say something kind of quieting." "But what's she got to worry about?" "That's what I say," said Mr. Hornblower, gesturing with his whip. "We're comf'table and prosperous, ain't we? Maybe there's a way to get more. I don't say there ain't. But what's the use of more, when you've got enough?
Are they countrymen of yours?" "Don't know! I see!" "Go ahead, then! It can't do any hurt." "Hi!" called out Filippo. "Listen! Ascoltatemi!" The two men started as if they had been shot; they fixed their gaze on Filippo. He began talking rapidly to them in Italian, gesturing freely. They replied in the same language. For fully ten minutes the heated dialogue continued.
Yet now what did I hear but that a garbled version of this song had been supposedly sung by myself, the Hobbs person meantime mincing across the stage and gesturing with a monocle which he had somehow procured, the words being quite simply: "Away down south in Michigan, Where I was a slave, so happy and so gay, 'Twas there I mowed the cotton and the cane.
"I'll take your offer for those bonds." ... And I could see the interiors of innumerable offices and drawing-rooms.... But of course I could hear and see nothing really except the intent drone and quick gesturing of those completely absorbed young creatures in the dim radiance, on stools precisely similar. I understood why the telephone service was so efficient.
A too comfortable poet, and poetry of too much verve without incision, too much "gesturing", which is an easy thing for many talented people, and there is also missing for me the real grip of amazement. You will not find anything in the letters that could not have been done by the cub reporter, save possibly in the more charming of the letters with reference to swimming in the South Seas.
And presently he presented himself at Bronson's cabin, his face glowing, his flannel shirt neatly brushed, and a dark-blue silk bandanna knotted gracefully at his throat. "This is the princess," said Bronson, gesturing toward his daughter. "And here is the feast." "And it was a piano," continued Bronson as they sat down. "Really? 'Way up here?" "My daughter plays a little," explained Bronson.
"Twenty years," I repeated. "But what of it? Some of the best men in the world use dyes and false " At this his temper went away from him suddenly and completely. I had struck the right point indeed! "You cammorrista!" he cried, and became only himself, his hands gesturing and flying, all his pleasant manner gone. "Why should we listen one second more to such a fisherman!
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