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For Margaret was cursed, nay blessed, with that heart of infinite motherhood that yearns over the broken or the weak or the straying of humankind, and makes their pain its own. "Bring him with you to tea next Sabbath evening, my dear," the little lady would say, with never a quiver or inflection of voice betraying that she had detected the girl's anxiety for her friend.
"I don't think there is anything for you to be uneasy about, except that his influence is always evil " he paused on a raised inflection and looked at her admiringly.
Out of these simple discoveries, came the electric telegraph, and, still more wonderful, the telephone, by which the human voice may be instantly projected hundreds of miles, not only intelligibly, but with every tone and inflection reproduced. In an age of wonders, this is surely one of the greatest.
Every word of hers, every gesture, every inflection of her sweet, clear voice, every lifting of her head, her eyes, her perfectly gloved hands, only repeated to him what he knew was a certainty. Never had he looked upon such physical loveliness; never had he dreamed of such a voice.
"No, sir." There was a lingering inflection in her tone that missed satisfaction. "Are you not happy at Cousin Leverett's?" "Happy? Oh, yes." She glanced up in a little surprise. "But the money would be to make someone else happy." "Ah!" He nodded encouragingly. "Betty is going to a party." "And she has been teasing her mother for some finery?" "She hasn't any pretty gown.
Be you alone?" The deep bass voice of John Biery was becoming more insistent in its rising inflection. For some half-minute Susannah did not answer, and then fear of being compelled to retake the road made irresolution impossible. "Indeed, sir, I am not alone. I have in the chaise with me a sick man, and I fear that he may be dying.
Saulisbury cared nothing for the youth, but felt something was due his partner. "I hope I haven't done anything unpardonable," he began, with his absurd, rising inflection. Arthur flared up again. "I wouldn't work for a man like you if I starved. I'm not a dog. You'll find an American citizen won't knuckle down to you the way your English peasants do.
One of her hands touched his arm. "Say yes, Tom." For a moment his political ambition and his standing with men appeared to dissolve into a mere mist, a finely comminuted sentiment of love; but he kept a good hold upon himself. "I cannot do it, Phyllis," he said, in a firm voice, which disclosed by some indescribable inflection how much it pained him to refuse.
Soon he hears a voice in the next room. With solemn inflection it repeats from Hood's "Eugene Aram" these fearful lines: "'Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill; And yet I feared him all the more For lying there so still: There was a manhood in his look That murder could not kill. "'So wills the fierce avenging sprite Till blood for blood atones.
He had pronounced these words with the most melancholy inflection, accompanied by the most melancholy look. "Enough," said Athos, after a long silence, "enough of this subject, upon which we both go too far.
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