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Miss Harcourt held her breath with pleasurable terror, and tightened or relaxed the grip of her small and not too clean fingers on his arm as the narrative proceeded. "But you never killed a man yourself," said she, when he had finished. There was an inflection, just a slight inflection, of voice, which Henry thought undeserved after the trouble he had taken.
Up to a late hour he hadn't returned, and police opinion is divided as to whether Maitland arrested Anisty, and Anisty got away, or vice versa." "Excellent!" She clasped her hands noiselessly, a gay little gesture. "So, whatever the outcome, one thing is certain: Higgins will presently be seeking another berth." She lifted her brows prettily. "Higgins?" with the rising inflection. "The butler.
"No, Nat," she said calmly, but still with that icy inflection of disdain; "this has gone too far. Take this ring. Some time, when you have made amends for this afternoon, I may see you again." "I won't take it," he replied doggedly. "Please, Nellie, forgive " "Take it," she flashed, "or I will throw it into the ocean!" She had unconsciously submitted him to a final test.
Monk, astonished at this language, which established between him and the French gentleman equality at least, raised his piercing eye to the stranger's face, and with a sensible irony conveyed by the inflection of his voice alone, for not a muscle of his face moved, "I thank you, monsieur," said he; "but, in the first place, to whom have I the honor of speaking?"
A tiny spot of colour burned in each of her cheeks and she flashed one quick look at the detective. This was an attack in flank which she had not expected. "My bankers?" she lied instantly, "I have not been to my bankers'." "I beg your pardon," he said, his voice keyed to a curious inflection.
She had been very gentle over the telephone, but, attuned as he was to every inflection of her voice, he had thought there was unhappiness in it. Almost despair. But she had pleaded a week of engagements. "I'm sorry," she had said. "I'll call you up next week some time I have a lot of things I want to talk over with you." But he knew she was avoiding him. And he knew that he ought to see her.
We care not how trifling a character may be let it be the mere inflection of the angle of the jaw, the manner in which an insect's wing is folded, whether the skin be covered by hair or feathers if it prevail throughout many and different species, especially those having very different habits of life, it assumes high value; for we can account for its presence in so many forms with such different habits, only by its inheritance from a common parent.
Moments when the maid becomes a wife, the wife a widow, the widow a re-married woman, by a simple, swift illumination of the fancy. Moments when, wrought upon by a single word a look an emphasis and rising inflection, all logical sequence is cast away, processes are lost inductions lead nowhere.
The head, sunbonneted, reappeared perked inquiringly sideways. "Hello, stranger!" it called with a nasal inflection, "how air ye? Do y' think minin' is goin' t' pan out well this yar spring?" Then she caught sight of his weapon. "What are you going to shoot?" she asked with sudden interest. "I thought I might see a deer." "Deer! hoh!" she cried in lofty scorn, reassuming her nasal tone.
The keen ear of the sick man caught the inflection of an impatience, of a mortification, in the tone that the speaker himself was unconscious of.
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