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"Go, Sir," said he at length, as soon as he was able to find utterance for his words; "Go, sir, to your quarters; and before you leave them, a court-martial shall decide, if such continued insult to your commanding officer, warrants your name being in the Army List." "What the devil can all this mean?" I said, in a half-whisper, turning to the others.
Whereafter, bending forward, and peering at me as a blind man would do, Kalinin added in a half-whisper: "More and more are folk coming to think to themselves: 'Now must I forsake everything. In the end I myself came to think it. For many a year did I increasingly reflect: 'Why should I be a servant? What will it ever profit me?
So profound was the outward silence that she could clearly distinguish the slight pressure of the heel on the edge of each step of the stairway. At the foot, the door of the chamber was opened, then closed again; afterward, she heard a scarcely-distinct murmur, an affectionate, yet sad blending of voices in a half-whisper.
He went, not very resolutely, towards the sledge and lay down. And while he was falling asleep he heard a half-whisper. "I beat and cover," said his grandfather. "I beat and cover," repeated the porter. The bell rang in the yard, the door creaked and seemed also saying: "I beat and cover."
A hoarse, half-whisper winged every word with an imperious threat. Hamilton obeyed. His hands were not firm; his fingers fumbled nervously; but he hurried, and Father Beret soon had the rapier sheathed and secured at his belt beside its mate. A good and true priest is a burden-bearer. His motto is: Alter alterius onera portate; bear ye one another's burdens.
"No," she repeated in a half-whisper, "we should not have the needed time." And without lifting her eyes she continued, as if speaking to herself: "For the saint, we could use neither the close embroidery nor the lace openwork. It would not be worthy of her. It should be an embroidery in gold, shaded by silk." "Exactly," said Felicien.
If Jane repressed her for a little time, she soon began again; and though much that passed between them was in a half-whisper, especially on Mrs.
He afterwards told me, in a half-whisper, that the second mate having been sharpening some harpoons, had unwittingly left them much too close to the binnacle; and that, in fact, the magnet had been attracted by them, so as to deceive the man at the wheel and himself, fully twenty degrees as to the real points of the compass.
He stood a moment, palpitant with mute thanksgiving, in the hallway, which was made obscure rather than bright by a tiny pinprick of gaslight; and as thus he stood, fortifying himself with resolution for the embarrassing necessity of presenting himself, in all his show of quaint frivolity, before these comparative strangers, there came floating down the stair well to him in a sharp half-whisper a woman's voice.
'What a beautiful world it is! said she, in a half-whisper, as we were about to part at the cottage door, for I had refused to leave her on the sands or even at the garden-gate. 'I should like to live for ever, she whispered; 'shouldn't you, Henry? 'Well, that all depends upon the person I lived with.
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