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"Decidedly," said the visitor, as he took off his paletot and seated himself beside the Marquis, "decidedly, my dear Lemercier," said he, in very correct French, and with the true Parisian accent and intonation, "you Frenchmen merit that praise for polished ignorance of the language of barbarians which a distinguished historian bestows on the ancient Romans.
She recalled the intonation of his sigh as he spoke of the inscrutable nature of things, and she wondered if he, too, with all his friends and possessions, was unhappy. She seemed to have exhausted her thoughts about him, and in the silence of her mind, her self came up for consideration.... Owen intended to ask her to go away with him; but he did not intend to marry her.
The parrot paused, listened, opened his beak, and again said something in the same dove-like, amorous voice, full of sickly suggestion and yet hard, even dangerous, in its intonation. A loathsome voice, the Father thought it. But this time, although he heard the voice more distinctly than before, he could not make up his mind whether it was like a woman's voice or a man's or perhaps a child's.
Steel," said she, "I am quite sure that you mean kindly and well, and that I above all women should feel supremely grateful; but I cannot help thinking that you are unjust to the man in the street!" "Better give him a trial," said Steel, coldly enough in his turn. "I should prefer to," rejoined Rachel, getting out; and there was no little sting in the intonation of the verb; but Mr.
Love always delights in imitation; and the disciples of a great teacher will unconsciously catch the trick of his intonation, even the awkwardness of his attitudes or the peculiarities of his way of looking at things only, unfortunately, outsides are a good deal more easily imitated than insides.
They were gazing earnestly into each other's eyes. Poor Morrison added, as a discouraging afterthought: "Only this is such a God-forsaken spot." Heyst inquired with a delicate intonation whether he might know the amount for which the brig was seized.
"No missionaries?" she repeated with an odd intonation. Christie's insight was quick. There was a peculiar expression of interrogation in the eyes of her listeners, and the girl's blood leapt angrily up into her temples as she said hurriedly, "I know what you mean; I know what you are thinking. You were wondering how my parents were married "
The lines, indeed, are mere stage directions, nothing more. I leave them out. This happens again and again in the play. Take, for instance, the familiar scene where Hamlet holds the skull in his hand: Shakespeare here suggests the words 'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well " "Yes, yes!" we interrupted, in spite of ourself, "'a fellow of infinite jest " "Your intonation is awful," said the Actor.
"This hall was furnished by my grandmother for her son's marriage," said Miss Crewys. "And she sent all your great-grandmother's treasures to the attics," said Lady Mary, with rather a wilful intonation. "I always long to bring them to light again, and to make this place livable; but my husband does not like change." "Dear Timothy is faithful to the past," said Miss Crewys, majestically.
'Alors vous parlez Francais, Madame? 'Mais oui, Monsieur, she answered with pure intonation. We had a little talk in French, and then the old man got his can filled with porter the evening drink for a party of reapers who were working on the hill bought a pennyworth of sweets, and went back down the road.
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