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As these thoughts crossed my mind, I felt him press my hand. Overjoyed, I knelt down and whispered some words in his ear. "No, no," muttered he, in a low, plaintive tone; "not all lost, not all! La Vendee yet remains!" He was dreaming.
"I'm just thinking we should have stopped this business before it got this far," muttered Holman, as he reached closer to get a light for his cigarette. "What should we have done?" I asked. "I don't know," he growled. "We should have done something though. Pity we didn't lose Leith overboard with your friend Toni." "What's wrong now? Has anything happened?" "No, nothing has happened," he replied.
The music died away in a hushed chord, and Leslie, who had been gazing out at the ocean during its rendering, was astonished when she looked around to see the visitor furtively wiping away a few tears. "I'm a perfect goose about some kinds of music!" she muttered apologetically, and then, abruptly, "Won't you two girls please call me Eileen?
The man began to storm, and threatened to have them locked up for running the cars without a license. But in the end he accepted the money Dick offered him. "Maybe you haven't heard the end of this," he muttered. "If you make trouble, perhaps I'll do the same," answered Dick, and then he and the others went aboard the yacht, where a late supper awaited them. Mr.
"I wish I hadn't come," she muttered once or twice. The boy Mike sat at the stern. The two girls had nothing whatever to do. "Shall I take an oar, Andy?" said Nora at last. "You, miss?" "I can take a pair of oars and help you," said the girl. "If it plazes you, miss." The man hastily stepped to the back of the boat. Nora took her place, and soon they were going at greater speed than ever.
"Well, if I get lost, I can find myself," muttered the newcomer. He looked regretfully at the green slopes about him; the lofty, impassive cliffs where Peace seemed to perch, a visible presence; the great sweeps of free forest; then at Uncle Pros and Johnnie. And they looked back at him dubiously. "I expect I'll have to leave you," he said at last.
How the prince hated the English Captain for he soon saw that, though Miss Garden listened to his own honeyed words with pleasure, her heart was in the safe keeping of one whom he, all of a sudden, chose to consider as his rival. "No matter," he muttered. "I must teach her to forget him."
If you and I had such ears as that, maybe we could hear the grasses growing." "That would be fun," muttered the Babe. "And then," continued Uncle Andy, "they smelt a faint, musky scent. I don't think it would be fun if we had such noses as that. We'd smell so many smells we did not want to. Eh? And I tell you, the youngsters did not want to smell that smell. It was a fox.
Others went their ways apparently attending to whatever duties called them, as soberly as the inhabitants of any civilized community. "God," muttered Smith-Oldwick, "what an awful place!" The girl turned suddenly toward him. "You still have your pistol?" she asked him. "Yes," he replied. "I tucked it inside my shirt.
Patsy looked embarrassed, ate his bit of bun in silence, and after twirling his hat-crown for a few seconds hitched out of the door with a backward glance and muttered remark which must have been intended for farewell. "With aching hands and bleeding feet, We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day and wish 't were done.