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"He covered the doors of our houses with the hands of our enemies," shouted a warrior, galloping like a phantom through the smoke of the funeral pyre. The multitude shouted with an intonation of lament. "Endovellicus! Endovellicus!" "All the tribes feared him, and his name was respected like that of a god!" The multitude repeated the name of the chief over and over, as if weeping.
He did not answer, but unexpectedly his short person showed itself in the brightest part of the light. "Señor!" he called out with a strange intonation. I got up and went to him. He seemed to be listening intently with his ear turned to the opening. Then suddenly: "Look at me, Señor. Am I Castro the same Castro? old and friendless?"
But on the intonation of the Gloria in excelsis Deo, the veil divides itself into two parts, and is drawn to the sides, which operation, suddenly performed, discloses hundreds of lights and a most splendid profusion of ornaments.
It was not a woman, Tom. I have enough on my hands without embroiling myself in affairs of gallantry. There are women, doubtless, who are worth the championship of honest men; but in our world of London town they are few and far between. Let them and their quarrels alone, Tom, if you would keep out of trouble." Lord Claud was speaking now with a sarcastic intonation rather unusual with him.
It was one of a large family; and in a short time its relatives gathered round the prisoner, clamouring their condolence in every variety of quacking intonation. They forced their necks under the crate, evidently trying to raise it, and thus liberate the captive; but the effort was beyond their strength.
Some one shook me by the arm. "Oh, oh, monsieur," said the secretary, laughing, "it looks to me as if you were almost caught." But a voice, a real voice, and no longer a dream voice, greeted me with the peasant intonation: "Good morning, m'sieu. How goes it?" My dream was over.
"The second," Melrose resumed, after a somewhat long pause, and with a sarcastic intonation, "is that you should resist the very natural temptation of exhibiting me to the world as a penitent and reformed character.
I guess that'll hold the police when they find the poor old duck hanging from the ceiling, with a bit of cord around his neck, and a chair kicked out from under his feet on the floor. Ain't you got the brains of a louse to see that?" "Sure" the whisper came dully, in grudging intonation through the panels the door was locked.
"Would it bore you very much reading a MS. in a handwriting like mine?" I asked him one evening on a sudden impulse at the end of a longish conversation whose subject was Gibbon's History. "Not at all," he answered with his courteous intonation and a faint smile. As I pulled a drawer open his suddenly aroused curiosity gave him a watchful expression. I wonder what he expected to see.
Dressel's intonation made it clear that the entrance of Miss Brent had been the signal for renewing an argument which the latter had perhaps left the room to escape. "When you were here three years ago, Justine, I could understand your not wanting to go out, because you were in mourning for your mother and besides, you'd volunteered for that bad surgical case in the Hope Hospital.
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