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"Yes," replied Theos in the same soft sotto-voce. "I am a mere sojourner in Al-Kyris for a few days only, ... the guest of the divine Sah-luma." Nir-jahs raised his eyebrows with an expression of amused wonder. "Divine!" he ejaculated "By my faith! what neophyte have we here!" and supporting himself on one elbow he stared at his companion as though he saw in him some singular human phenomenon.
Blame near broke my toe on Jane Ellen's doll's porcelain head. 'S all right. 'Night." "'Night." Then in an admonitory sotto-voce, "Remember, if you wake Dickie, you've got to tell him stories till he goes to sleep again, or he'll wake up everybody else!" "If he wakes, I'll garotte him. 'Night." "'Night."
What I do here is for my father's sake you know that!" "I know!" and Zouche smoked on, and shook his wild head sentimentally, murmuring in a sotto-voce: "What I do here, is for the need of gold, What I do there, is for sweet love's sake only; Love, ever timid there, doth here grow bold, And wins such triumph as but leaves me lonely!" "Is that yours?" said Pequita with a sudden smile.
A sketch overpainted -or it seemed above the quality of a sheer forgery or was the case worse than that? Meanwhile not a shade of doubt was in Rosenheim's mind. As I canvassed the possibilities his sotto-voce ecstasies continued, to the vast amusement, as I perceived, of a sardonic stranger who hovered unsteadily in the background.
The memory of her father had always a saddening influence on Charlotte; and it needed many tender sotto-voce speeches from Valentine to bring back the smiles to her fair young face. The big electro-plated tea-tray and massive silver teapot made their appearance presently, and immediately after came Mr. Sheldon.
George had said, was delicious, especially his drawl; but there were times now, for example, when all that the eyes of Amory expressed was what his lips framed, sotto-voce: "An American heiress, betrothed to the prince of a cannibal island! Wouldn't Chillingworth turn in his grave at his desk?" The "porch of light" proved to be an especially fascinating place at evening.
"Yes I! If not, I've studied women all my life for nothing!" She broke into a low peal of mocking laughter turned, and was about to leave him, when he detained her by a slight touch on her arm. "Stop a bit!" he said in an impressive sotto-voce. "A bargain's a bargain all the world over.
"He's a great authority on Indian literature, he belongs to a society for making things pleasant for Indian students in London, and he has them down." "And Mr. Lawrence Carmine?" he pursued. Even more intimately and confidentially she indicated Mr. Carmine, as it seemed by a motion of her eyelash. Mr. Direck prepared to be even more sotto-voce and to plumb a much profounder mystery.
He sat his second hour there in a rather forward huddle beside the drawn shade of that window, the sotto-voce comings and goings, all the black-coated parvenus that follow the wake of death, moving about him.
They had their meals in the studio, they lived there safely. For the house was becoming dreadful. There were two nurses in white, flitting silently about, like heralds of death. The father was confined to his bed, there was a come and go of SOTTO-VOCE sisters and brothers and children. Winifred was her father's constant visitor.
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