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I knew, of course, if she appeared that I should recognize her, but I did not dare to be sure that she would recognize me. I remember her, but she never saw me on earth." "It was as a spirit that she knew you, and that is the way she knew me, and knew that I loved her," said Paul, with a sudden huskiness in his voice.
A silent youngster began to speak, cleared an accumulated huskiness from his throat and said, "Consider the girl." "Why marry?" asked Bletherley, unregarded. "You must admit you are asking a great thing when you want a girl ..." began Parkson. "Not so. When a girl's chosen a man, and he chooses her, her place is with him. What is the good of hankering? Mutual. Fight together."
Those words are like the dew of Heaven to my feverish soul." She uttered the words again, with her soft white arms twined lovingly around his neck, and she held them there until he came to the end of his wretched story. "Bernardine," he began, softly, with a pitiful huskiness in his voice, "I rely on your promise. You have given me your word, and I know you will never break it. Don't look at me.
Preparation for a drum-head court-martial, as in the first case of Halloway, had already been made within the square, and the only actor wanting in the drama was he who was to be tried. Once Colonel de Haldimar made an effort to command his appearance, but the huskiness of his voice choked his utterance, and he was compelled to pause.
Lovyes as they sat over their breakfast in the parlour at Merchant's Point, he spoke with such huskiness as I never heard the like of. Mr. Lovyes took little heed to us, but went on eating his breakfast with only a sour comment here and there. I noticed, however, that Mrs.
She saw only a rough-looking man of great stature, slightly stooped, and with large features burnt to a deep brown. "Hello, Barb," said Bradley, without much enthusiasm. His salutation met with as little: "What's up?" demanded Doubleday. Kate noticed the huskiness in the strong, cold tone. "Brought y' a passenger." From the talk of the night she recognized her father's nickname.
"Oh, it's you, is it, Miss Hilma?" he remarked, for the sake of saying something. "Good-morning. How do you do?" "Good-morning, sir," she answered, looking up, resting for a moment on her outspread palms. "I hope you are better." Her voice was low in pitch and of a velvety huskiness, seeming to come more from her chest than from her throat. "Well, I'm some better," growled Annixter.
What he was thinking was probably what any other gentleman would have thought in the circumstances. With his eyes still downcast, and in a voice harsh with huskiness, he spoke. "I will tell you what we will do, my lad," he said. "My father was my ideal man, and I loved him better than any other I have ever known.
I'm glad to be shed of you!" At the barn she met Bud, and he told her good-by with a little huskiness in his voice, while a tear glistened in her eyes. Bud had been a friend in need, and such a friend one does not leave without a pang. "Where are you going? Can I " "No, no!" And with that she hastened on, afraid that Bud would offer to hitch up the roan colt.
At the mountain girl's illiterate words, so pregnant with meaning, a remarkable change came over the face and manner of the man. His voice, even, for the moment, lost its huskiness, and vibrated with sincere feeling as he steadied himself; and, bowing with courteous deference, said: "I beg your pardon, miss. That was unkind. You really should have left me to the river."
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