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The General was chatting with a friend. The pistols were loaded by Solomon and General Clarke, while each watched the other. The Lieutenant's friends and seconds stood close together laughing at some jest. "That's funny, I'll say, what what!" said one of the gentlemen. Jack turned to look at him, for there had been a curious inflection in his "what, what!"
"The money," said the old woman, with an inflection of voice and a twist of her features indicative of the most superb scorn "the money! I guess you ain't goin' to lose such a chance as that for money.
"Uh-huh," Zenas Henry agreed with the same bored inflection. "An' that leaves you rockin' like a baby in a cradle 'til you can get the wheel free." "Uh-huh." There was a moment of silence. "It can't be much of a stunt tossin' round in a choppy sea like as if you was a chip on the waves," commented Jan Eldridge with a commiserating grin. "'Tain't."
It was a soft, rich contralto, and she read quietly; the feeling was in the voice itself, not indicated by emphasis or change of pitch. She repeated the little verses musically, like a song, and the entreaty of the flowers was even softer than the rest, as the shy speech of flowers might be, and she ended with the voice suspended, almost with a rising inflection.
"Busy, I suppose;" said Rodney. Her inflection had dictated this reply. "Yes, he's busy," she repeated absently and in a tone still more coldly hostile, though Rodney perceived that the hostility was not meant for him.
"The people have sinned, and the heathen are the instruments whereby the Lord hath willed to chastise them," said the messenger, with that peculiar nasal inflection of voice, so characteristic of the "unco' guid."
We lunched very early and the ride here is always tiresome. In Madame's absence, I am sure you will take care of Miss Gordon and me." There was the finest inflection on the "miss." "I shall stay a day or two. Robin, my dear, this is your new home." Robin had been biting her lips to keep them steady.
I suppose, if it were not for the bond of a written language and perpetual intercourse, the two nations would not be able to understand each other in the course of a hundred years, the inflection and accentuation are so different. I recently heard an English lady say, referring to the American speech, that she could hardly believe her own language could be spoken so strangely.
"It's a good, strong safe, and and there are plenty of servants around," he concluded largely. "Precisely. Likewise plenty of burglars. You don't suppose a determined criminal like Anisty, for instance, would bother himself about a handful of thick-headed servants, do you?" "Anisty?" with a rising inflection of inquiry. Bannerman squared himself to face his host, elbows on table.
'I was mighty sorry, he said, 'to hear that you and Marjory have broken off your engagement. 'It was her wish: not mine. Van Derwater's voice was deep and rich, but almost monotonous in its lack of inflection. 'I was talking to Forbes to-day, went on Selwyn tenaciously. 'He had been to see Marjory. 'Yes? 'Marjory told him that you didn't care enough for her to go overseas.
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