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"Some time ago, you advised me, as chairman of the executive committee, that you had decided upon a change of route, Mr. Ford," he began raspingly. "What were your reasons for making the change?" "I stated them in my letter of advice," said Ford; "economy in construction and greater safety in operating, as against a slight increase in the length of the line."
"Take all the time you need, witness," said Mr. Balfour. "All day, of course, if necessary," responded Mr. Cavendish raspingly. "I think these are genuine autograph letters, both of them," said Mr. Benedict. "Thank you: now please hand them back to me." "I have special reasons for requesting the Court to impound these letters," said Mr. Balfour. "They will be needed again in the case."
There were moments when the air throbbed and the room rocked with the sound, and other moments when the music was all absorbed in the soul of the performer. Finally the old man drew himself up, threw his head backward, ran his fingers raspingly up towards the bridge and made a desperate plunge with his bow. A loud snap was heard like the report of a pistol. The string had broken.
The needle of the gramophone, after the manner of its kind, slipped raspingly over the surface of the wax, and the rest of the ballad was lost. 'That, said Charteris, 'is how I feel with regard to the Old Man. I'd be his sweetheart, if he'd be mine. But he makes no advances, and the stain on my scutcheon is not yet wiped out.
The air was heavy with the smell of burning paint. "Where's Sir Portwood Chester?" enquired her companion of the stage-hand, who hurried beside them. "'Opped it!" replied the other briefly, and coughed raspingly as he swallowed smoke. "Strange," said the man in Jill's ear, as he pulled her along. "This way. Stick to me. Strange how the drama anticipates life!
As he ran forward, brushing past tottering forms which cursed him thickly, he saw yet another group of men beyond the wagons; saw that there, too, the spirit of alcohol was rampant; heard a man's voice, high-raised and raspingly shrill, in a monotonous song.
Albert was gazing at Hazel so animatedly, so obviously approving of all she said, that her aunt was very much ruffled. 'No wonder you only want to be like yourself, he said. 'Jam! my word, Hazel, you're jam! 'Albert! cried his mother raspingly, with a pathetic note of pleading, 'haven't I always taught you to say preserve? She was not pleading against the inelegant word, but against Hazel.
As it was, she extricated herself from her mingled impulse to deny and question, and said, almost raspingly: "Yes, it is too bad." "Looks like there will be quite a crowd here to-day, doesn't it?" the acquaintance observed, drifting off upon another topic. The manager's wife would have questioned farther, but she saw no opportunity.
The two men went from under the glimmering street-lamp and passed into shadows. Turning, Maggie contemplated the dark, dust-stained walls, and the scant and crude furniture of her home. A clock, in a splintered and battered oblong box of varnished wood, she suddenly regarded as an abomination. She noted that it ticked raspingly.
Archie groaned. How horribly like a girl it was to be "delicate." "I think," went on the caller, raspingly, "that a frail boy is a care. One depends so on one's sons to be a strength to one in old age; to help in their father's business, and things like that unless, of course, one has money."
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