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"You have wit, monsieur mon neveu," said he, "the best wit the wit of silence. Many might have deafened me with their gratitude. Gratitude!" he repeated, with a peculiar intonation, and lay and smiled to himself. "But to approach what is more important. As a prisoner of war, will it be possible for you to be served heir to English estates?
Just so it is with national tricks of vocalization or intonation, with national manners, fashions of movement and gesture, and habitual expressions of face.
"Hold, Gladwyn!" protested Major Hester. "It is better that one life should be risked than that all should be endangered. Nor do I think I should be in any serious peril. I have always got along with the redskins, and have thus far found Pontiac reasonable." "I forgot. He did present the calumet to you," replied the other, with a meaning intonation.
What we lose in generous impulse we more than gain in the habit of generously watching others; and the capacity to enjoy Shakespeare may balance a lost appetite for playing at soldiers. If a man lives to any considerable age, it cannot be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.
"Would not that end in 'Mine be a cot, beside the rill'?" said he, with an intonation of absurd sentiment. "Well, and suppose an enemy came, would duty prompt not the Hay with the joke or Winkelried on the spears?" "Nay, why not 'It is my duty to take care of Lucy." "Then Lucy ought to be broken on her own wheel." "Not at all! It is Lucy's duty to keep her Colin from running into danger."
How coldly and pitilessly with what an even, calm intonation, presaging, and enforcing tranquillity in the men with what accurately measured intervals fell those cruel words: "Attention, company!... Shoulder arms!... Ready!... Aim!... Fire!" Farquhar dived dived as deeply as he could.
In the ecclesiastical habit, but with their swords under their robes, the conspirators mingled with the procession, lurked in the angles of the chapel, and expected, as the signal of murder, the intonation of the first psalm by the emperor himself.
His voice betrayed a barrack-room intonation of the worst order, and he had the dirtiest pair of hands I ever saw even in France. These little personal peculiarities exercised, however, no repelling influence on me. In the mad excitement, the reckless triumph of that moment, I was ready to "fraternize" with anybody who encouraged me in my game.
The service was very simple, no pomp, no ritualism; for it was characteristic of the leading men of the movement that they left these things to the weaker brethren. Their thoughts, at all events, were set on great questions which touched the heart of unseen things. About the service, the most remarkable thing was the beauty, the silver intonation of Mr.
"Excuse me while I climb a tree," he exclaimed, with a comical intonation. "There comes Lion and Tige, and I 'm afraid it's another horrible case of 'They're After Me." "Oh, they won't touch you while you 're with us," laughed Sadie. "Here Lion, here Tige, good dogs."
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