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Henry who is now speaking." The man thus rebuked was somewhat crestfallen, but managed to say, as if in a half-soliloquy: "Mr. Henry! Why, that ain't Mr. Henry. That's the little chap that told me to holler." At the conclusion of one of his lectures in which Mr.
He expressed himself, of course, with eccentric ABANDON it would have been impossible for him to do otherwise; but he was content to indicate his deepest feelings with a fleer. Yet sometimes as one can imagine happening with him in actual conversation his utterance took the form of a half-soliloquy, a copious outpouring addressed to himself more than to anyone else, for his own satisfaction.
But, as he had overtaxed his eyes, I began to read to him; and then, as we became better acquainted, he resumed a habit he had, as I soon learned, of speaking in half-soliloquy concerning the subjects that occupied his mind. He said that an invalid sister had indulged him in this habit, and he had tried to think aloud partly to beguile her weariness.
"Why, in the midst of these yellings, did you not hear a shrill whoop now and then a whistle?" "Ha! did you hear that?" "More than once distinctly." "Where were my ears?" asked the cibolero of himself. "You are sure, Antonio?" "Quite sure, master." Carlos remained for a moment silent, evidently engaged in busy reflection. After a pause, he broke out in a half-soliloquy:
"He's too much afraid lest one of these wild Americanos might whip her off on the cantle of his saddle. Such things have been done in this very valley. By Saint Mary! she is good-looking," continued Saint Vrain, in a half-soliloquy, "and I knew a man the cursed old tyrant! only think of it!" "Of what?" "The way he has bled us.
So he will, mother, for sure it's an errand o' peace." "Ay that's it, that's it," murmured the widow in a half-soliloquy. Dick Varley spent that night in converse with his mother, and next morning at daybreak he was at the place of meeting, mounted on his sturdy little horse, with the "silver rifle" on his shoulder and Crusoe by his side. "That's right, lad, that's right.
"Surely," said she, slowly and in half-soliloquy, "if one could live always amid such scenes as these, the Elysium of the gods or the heaven of the Christians would offer few temptations." "And among just such scenes you shall live after a short year passes," he answered, warmly and confidently. But with anger he missed the wonted sparkle of her eyes when these cherished plans were broached.
So He will, mother, for sure it's an errand o' peace!" "Ay, that's it, that's it," murmured the widow in a half-soliloquy. Dick Varley spent that night in converse with his mother, and next morning at daybreak he was at the place of meeting mounted on his sturdy little horse, with the "silver rifle" on his shoulder, and Crusoe by his side. "That's right, lad, that's right.
"What they live that a-way fer? Hey? Mos'ly 'cause they can't live no other." Then, after a long pause, the Superior Being resumed in a tone of half-soliloquy: "A'n't a bed nur a board in the hull city of Red Owl to be had for payin' nur coaxin'. Beds is aces. Houses is trumps. Landlords is got high, low, Jack, and the game in ther hands. Looky there!
"They're gone down to the Bridge. The band has had a fandango with your people and lost some men. They say they have killed a good many stragglers along the road." "So he was in the rinconada, you say? and this morning, too?" inquired Raoul, in a half-soliloquy, and without heeding the last remark of the contrabandista. "We've got to look sharp, then," he added, after a pause.
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