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Garfield's father's house. During our school-days here I nursed the late President through an attack of the measles which nearly ended his life. He has often said, that, were it not for my attention, he could not have lived. So you see that the General and myself were very close to one another from the time either of us could lisp until he became President.
"If I were ever to know the real words, I should still go on in my old way with them," said Mirah, when she had repeated the hymn several times. "Why not?" said Deronda. "The lisped syllables are very full of meaning." "Yes, indeed," said Mrs. Meyrick. "A mother hears something of a lisp in her children's talk to the very last.
There was much noise in the tent. 'Who will stand me? said a voice with a slight tendency to lisp. 'Will you, my lord? 'Yes, said another voice. Then there was a sound as of a piece of money banging on a table.
He does not talk with a silly lisp or an inane drawl. Therefore, the useless fellows whom Britain trusted with the important task of watching him and sizing him up counted him as a boor as well as a Boer a mere country clod.
Look how hot and bright those fields are in the sun. Bersenyev spoke with a slight lisp. 'There's some fine colour laid on there, observed Shubin. 'Nature's a good hand at it, that's the fact! Bersenyev shook his head. 'You ought to be even more ecstatic over it than I. It's in your line: you're an artist. 'No; it's not in my line, rejoined Shubin, putting his hat on the back of his head.
Her, person was slender and delicate, to which a good complexion and large motionless eyes gave at a distance an appearance of beauty, that vanished upon nearer inspection: she affected to lisp, to languish, and to have two or three fainting-fits a day.
The virulent redness of his shock head and beard was most startling; and in the thicket of hair wrinkled above high cheek bones shone two very merry blue eyes. He was indeed an outlander, but yet a Thibetan in language, habit, and attire. He spoke the Lepcha dialect with an indescribable softening of the gutturals. It was not so much a lisp as an accent. 'Whence comest thou? I asked.
The voice underneath the lisp was a sad thing when you remembered it had once been "golden ". It was raucous yet husky, a gin voice, Jeffrey had called it, adding that she had a gin cough. All this Esther remembered as she went forward prettily and submitted to Aunt Patricia's perfumed kiss.
"But, remember," I whispered, as Murden came out of the hut to meet us, "do not lisp a word of this to him." "You appear earnest, gentlemen," said Murden, as he joined us; "pray, what perplexes your minds now?" "We were conversing on the subject of making a forced march to Melbourne," Fred replied, gravely. "And why need that trouble you?" the officer inquired.
I roared, running up to him, "don't stir! There. Answer, now: what did you come in to look at?" "If you have any order to give me it's my duty to carry it out," he answered, after another silent pause, with a slow, measured lisp, raising his eyebrows and calmly twisting his head from one side to another, all this with exasperating composure. "That's not what I am asking you about, you torturer!"
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