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She looked up indifferently. Then something of interest stirred in her face. "You have heard what has happened?" she said in a half-whisper. Mary knelt down beside her and put her arms round the little frozen figure. "Why, you are cold!" she said. "Come away from the window. I am going to ask for a fire, and then you will talk to me about it."
The General had meant to have some play with Nell, but that forlorn look of hers went to his heart. "I saw Langrishe to-day, Nell," he said. "He's coming for Christmas. We can put him up hey?" "Papa!" He heard the incredulously joyful half-whisper, and he felt the pang that comes to all fathers at such a moment. Nell was not going to be only his ever again.
He nodded curtly and sprang into the carriage; but the old man, pressing close to the wheel, so that it could not move without throwing him, said something in a half-whisper, as if he were ashamed of it. "Certainly, certainly, very soon," replied Carroll, with some impatience. "I need it pooty bad," the old man said, abashedly. "Very soon, I tell you," repeated Carroll. "I cannot stop now."
With a furtive glance at the girl, whose back was toward them, he got up from his chair and came quite close to Booth, frowning slightly as he plucked at his moustache with nervous fingers. Lowering his voice to a cautious half-whisper, he inquired: "I say, Brandy, what do you know about him? Is he on the level, or is he a damned old rascal?"
Before I could answer, a shutter opened overhead and a voice came sifting down. "O Chad! Mix me a julep. And, Chad, bring an extra one for the colonel. I reckon he'll be yer d'reckly." "Yes, sah," replied Chad, without lifting his eyes from the pan. Then glancing up and finding the blind closed again, he said to me in a half-whisper: "Colonel get his julep when he ax fur it.
The very fact then present to our senses, that a British audience could remain passive under such an insult to common decency, nay, receive with a thunder of applause, a human being supposed to have come reeking from the consummation of this complex foulness and baseness, these and the like reflections so pressed as with the weight of lead upon my heart, that actor, author, and tragedy would have been forgotten, had it not been for a plain elderly man sitting beside me, who, with a very serious face, that at once expressed surprise and aversion, touched my elbow, and, pointing to the actor, said to me in a half-whisper "Do you see that little fellow there? he has just been committing adultery!"
Mary had pointed out the propriety of it early in the morning, and it was not until late in the evening, after having remained in silence and with his eyes closed for the whole day, that Austin made a sign to his wife to bend down to him, and desired her in a half-whisper to send for a magistrate.
"Do you think " Gregory began. But the girl answered his unfinished question. "Yes," she said slowly, "I think they found out. That is why they never got out alive." "But they were wrecked and drowned." Dickie shook her head slowly. "I have never thought so," she answered in a half-whisper.
I well knew that the invitation meant nothing less than a full-dress parade of me before her friends, and that to decline was perhaps to forfeit all my hopes in that quarter forever. "'Any answer, sir? said the waiter. "'Yes, said I, in a half-whisper, 'I'll go, tell the servant, I'll go.
He had a perfect understanding plainly with persons of the highest political position; and Stuart listened with the greatest interest to the speaker, whose low voice never rose above the half-whisper by which I had been impressed on his first opening his lips. "So the summing up of all this," said Stuart, "that our friends are not too hopeful?" "They are not, general."
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