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At the least it would save her the trouble of father-taming. Sugarman's entry was brusque and breathless. He was overwhelmed with joyous emotion. His blue bandana trailed agitatedly from his coat-tail. "At last!" he cried, addressing the little white-haired master tailor; "I have the very man for you." "Yes?" grunted Eliphaz, unimpressed. The monosyllable was packed with emotion.
She lifted her chin scornfully. "That would be childish. It would be a mere quibbling with words." "But it would be true. It's the way I should take it." She confronted him with one of her imperious looks. "Why?" In the monosyllable there was a demand for complete explanation, but he met it with one of his frank smiles. "Couldn't you let me keep that as my secret?"
He that to these would join others, signified by the words life, sense, and spontaneous motion, needed but use the word ANIMAL to signify all which partaked of those ideas, and he that had made a complex idea of a body, with life, sense, and motion, with the faculty of reasoning, and a certain shape joined to it, needed but use the short monosyllable MAN, to express all particulars that correspond to that complex idea.
The monosyllable dropped from her lips like a stone, yet even as it fell the banner of Maccabæus unfurled and flaunted in her face; the voice of Esther murmured, and a vision of Judith saving a nation visited her, and, continuing, made spots on the night. Judas had flung her from him. She reeled; the violence roused her. Who was she to consider herself when the security of the Master was at stake?
'No, said our friend, briefly. He seemed almost disagreeable. There was a long pause. One of us, with a nod and a forced smile at the traveller, said 'Well! The nod, the smile, and the unmeaning monosyllable, were returned conscientiously. Another pause was broken by one of us with a fit of coughing. It was an obviously assumed fit, but it served to pass the time.
He stuttered a little, and had a peculiar habit of wedging the monosyllable "why" into his conversation at times when it served no other purpose than to fill up the pauses caused by his stuttering; but this by no means assisted him in his speech, for he often stuttered over the "why" itself.
Ah, more than innocent, the best and sweetest thing in his life, if But that little monosyllable makes all the difference. It was coming to an end now, they were going away; and Dick had to let them go, without any conclusion to this pretty play in which he had played his part so successfully.
"Mais " he exclaimed, with indignant arms outspread; and even in his own language he could find nothing to add to the expressive monosyllable. "I think you had better go," said Etta quietly. She went toward the fire-place and rang the bell. M. de Chauxville took up his hat and gloves. "Of course," he said coldly, his voice shaking with suppressed rage, "there is some reason for this.
"Who knows? Then if I was to die, you could pretend I hadn't made no will." "Take it back. I shan't keep it," Lucy cried, moving toward the door. "Afraid of yourself, eh?" "No." The monosyllable rang with scorn. "Then prove it," sneered Ellen. "Give it to me." Smiling evilly, her aunt pushed the packet across the table. There was a leer of triumph in the sharp-featured face.
It's no good supposing that these poor starving people will wait for ever!" "Oh!" said Lady Winterbourne, and sat staring at her visitor. To those who knew its author well, the monosyllable could not have been more expressive. Lady Winterbourne's sense of humour had no voice, but inwardly it was busy with Lord Alresford as the "friend of the poor."
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