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The long sofas and chairs, as if they had only just come out or rather, as if they had just come up from the country to come out had arranged themselves so very formally, and altogether behaved so very awkwardly, that it was almost impossible for the company assembled to appear as much at their ease as, from their position, education, and manners, they really were; and accordingly, biassed by the furniture, they kept moving, and bowing, and courtesying, and sotto-voce talking, until they got into a parallelogram, in the centre of which stood, distinguished by a broad ribbon, and by a mild, thoughtful, benevolent countenance, Prince Louis Napoleon, whose gentle and gentleman-like bearing to every person who approached him entitled him to that monarchical homage in which the majority evidently delighted, but which it was alike his policy as well as his inclination at all events to appear to suppress; and accordingly the parallelogram, which, generally speaking, was at the point of congelation, sometimes and of its own accord froze into the formality of a court, and then all of a sudden appeared to recollect that the Prince was the President, and that the whole party had assembled to enjoy liberté, fraternité, and égalité.
Then he turned with a wink to Silver and said sotto-voce: "They calls him Boysie when he's crossed 'em. See he apes Miss Boy. He features her a bit, and he knows it. She's teaching him to ride, and he's picked up some of her tricks. Course he ain't got her way with 'em.
One would hear the laughter of children as they chased each other round the decks, and the sotto-voce remarks of some old gentleman roused from his afternoon nap by the sudden impact of a podgy infant of four tripping heavily over his outstretched feet. After dark in some secluded corner one might happen upon a man and a girl.
"God forbid!" said the Justice in a tone of sotto-voce deprecation; "some of us have enough of one of the tribe." "This is a matter of life and death, if your worship pleases." "In God's name! no more justice business, I hope," said the alarmed magistrate. "No no," replied Mr.
"Ship ahoy!" shouted Coke, with all the force of brazen lungs. The screw of the unseen ship stopped. The sigh of escaping steam reached them. "Holla! Wer rufe?" was the gruff answer. "Sink me if it ain't a German!" growled Coke, sotto-voce, "Norrie, you must stick here till I sing out to you. Then open your exhaust an' unscrew a sea-cock. . . . Wot ship is that?" he vociferated aloud.
Villiers smiled, and straightened himself in military fashion, as was his habit when particularly gratified. "Excellent old Teufelsdrockh!" he murmured sotto-voce "He had a rugged method of explaining himself, but it was decisive enough, in all conscience!" "Decisive, and to the point,".. assented Alwyn, putting the book back in its place, and then confronting his friend.
The shining pair had just arrived, lateness being reckoned very differently in Houses of Heth and Houses of Dabney. Their brilliant progress down the long gay room, stopped often for the giving and taking of greetings, left behind awake of sotto-voce compliment. Cally Heth, though the familiar sight of every day, was a spectacle, or view, not easily tired of.
"God forbid!" said the Justice in a tone of sotto-voce deprecation; "some of us have enough of one of the tribe." "This is a matter of life and death, if your worship pleases." "In God's name! no more justice business, I hope," said the alarmed magistrate. "No no," replied Mr.
"Oh dear!" cried Ellis, sotto-voce, "here comes the social organism! I knew it would be upon us sooner or later." "And though at present, I admit," proceeded Wilson, not hearing, or ignoring, this interruption, "we are hardly in a position to draw any certain conclusions, yet to me, at least, it seems pretty clear what kind of results we shall arrive at."
"Curious, . . curious!" he murmured in a mild sotto-voce, "A would- be pessimist! aye, aye, 'tis very greatly the fashion for young men in these days to assume the manner of elderly and exhausted cynics who have tried everything and approve of nothing! 'Tis a strange craze! but, my good sir, let us keep to the subject at present under discussion.
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