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Together with my companions I assumed a genial tolerance toward all those poor dry devils known to us as "profs." I remember the weary sighs of our old college president as he monotoned through his lectures on ethics to the tune of the cracking of peanuts, which an old darky sold to us at the entrance to the hall. It was a case of live and let live. He let us eat and we let him talk.
At five o'clock there was invariably a sound of plates and cups, and out of it the little model's voice would rise, matter-of-fact, soft, monotoned, making little statements; and in turn Mr. Stone's, also making statements which clearly lacked cohesion with those of his young friend. On one occasion, the door being open, Hilary heard distinctly the following conversation: The LITTLE MODEL: "Mr.
The day crept toward sunset, and Hitty sat with her wan face pressed to the window-pane, hushing her child in his cradle with one of those low, monotoned murmurs that mothers know; but still her husband did not come.
Duvernois leaned forward in his saddle, and gazed at both without a word or a movement. "Oh, what could have led her to this?" groaned the physician, already too sure that life had departed. "Insanity," was the monotoned response of the statue on horseback. The funeral took place two days later: the coffin-plate bore the inscription, "Alice Leighton, aged 23."
She didn't even have the grace to say she was sorry for anything she'd done." "She probably wasn't," monotoned Waldstricker. Then he looked directly at his wife. "I've often argued with your brother about those squatters. They're a pest to the county. Deforrest " "Oh, don't blame Deforrest, Ebenezer," Helen interjected agitatedly.
She ceaselessly monotoned what was intended for a hymn. "The old gentleman sleeps over there," said the skipper with his head just above the floor level. He indicated the screened corner, and then bobbed down and disappeared, being far too courteous a man to intrude. The old lady took no notice whatever as I approached.
In front of the house is a bare plain; gradually descending, it recedes into the distance; the grey, monotoned sky hangs over it like a canopy. I am not alone; half a score of men are with me in the room. All plain folk, plainly clad; they are pacing up and down in silence, as though by stealth. They avoid one another, and yet they are incessantly exchanging uneasy glances.
As long as she's in Bellaire, the Kings'll always have her here with her fiddle." "Some fiddle," monotoned Jordan. "It's the violin that attracts Theodore," hesitated Molly. "And her blue eyes," interrupted Jordan, smiling widely. "Her talent, you mean," corrected Molly. "And her curls," laughed Morse. "I swear if she wasn't a relation of mine I'd marry the kid myself.
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