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Updated: May 1, 2025
Again on the still air of the Plains that night rose the bugle summons, by now become familiar. In groups the wagon folk began to assemble at the council fire. They got instructions which left them serious. The camp fell into semi-silence. Each family returned to its own wagon. Out in the dark, flung around in a wide circle, a double watch stood guard.
His specialty is telling me short anecdotes of his professional life from day to day. They are told with wonderful dash and power, except for one slight omission, which is, that you never know what the doctor is talking about. Beyond this, his little stories are of unsurpassed interest but let me illustrate. He came into the semi-silence room of the club the other day and sat down beside me.
Then the president removed his hat. Thanks to this extreme measure a semi-silence was obtained. "A communication!" said Uncle Prudent, after taking a huge pinch from the snuff-box which never left him. "Speak up!" answered eighty-nine voices, accidentally in agreement on this one point. "A stranger, my dear colleagues, asks to be admitted to the meeting." "Never!" replied every voice.
"Spell it!" pleaded Maud, shaking her younger sister into a sobful semi-silence. "F-i-g-g-e-r!" spelled Mrs. Jo G. in an ominous murmur. Maud Grace's flat, expressionless face took on a really imbecile blankness. "Figger!" she repeated over and over. "Figger! That's worse t' understand than modil. I don't see why you can't talk plain talk, Ma!" "'Cause I told you.
"M," it shouted, "Emily, what are you doing?" "My goodness," said the second magnitude in alarm, "it's MAMA." I may say that the second instalment of Dr. VII. An Every-Day Experience He came across to me in the semi-silence room of the club. "I had a rather queer hand at bridge last night," he said. "Had you?" I answered, and picked up a newspaper. "Yes.
The presence of the crouching figure had created a sudden semi-silence in the den, which could only mean that some of the supposed opium-smokers had merely feigned coma and the approach of coma. Nayland Smith lay like a dead man, and trusting to the darkness, I, too, lay prone and still, but watched the evil face bending lower and lower, until it came within a few inches of my own.
Louisa would send Olivier awkward, humble letters in which she thanked him profusely: she used always to write of her son as though he were a little boy. After a period of fond semi-silence "a delicious time of peace and enjoyment without knowing why," their tongues were loosed. They spent hours in voyages of discovery, each in the other's soul.
His face was brown and ruddy. He had abandoned all drugs, and had gained fully twenty pounds in weight. He had learned to make a fire, paddle a canoe, and go through the woods in semi-silence. His scholarly talk had given him large place in Rolf's esteem, and his sweet singing had furnished a tiny little shelf for a modicum of Quonab's respect. But his attempts to get a deer were failures.
She is talking seriously and holding out to the flames her fingers covered with rings. The wide-open door reveals the darker bedroom, in which the lights are already turned on. A young married woman is sitting with her elbows on the table. She is reading a poem in a low voice; and from time to time a few words, spoken more loudly, mingle with the semi-silence of the other rooms.
The semi-silence of the night was broken by musical sounds, scarcely melody, but an uneven kind of chant, commencing in unison, and dying away in a prolonged melancholy, wailing chord, swelling and falling, almost like the notes produced by an Æolian harp as the wind sweeps over its strings.
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