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Bella remarked, in a sweet voice, that Sir Kenneth's promises were not to be relied on, and that it would be wiser to transfer the trust to Captain Bowels, a proposal which the gallant captain received with a laugh and a sotto voce remark to Bella that his fidelity to promises depended on the youth and beauty of the lady to whom they were made.
When a Sikh, two obvious Arabs and an American all rush to a woman's assistance before she calls for help, there is evidence of collusion somewhere which you could hardly expect a trained spy to overlook or fail to draw conclusions from. It was all over in a minute. The rascal left the compartment, muttering to himself in Arabic sotto voce.
All the more reason why I should bless the accident which led Mlle. Dorian to my door." Mrs. M'Gregor, betraying, in her interest, real suspicion, murmured sotto voce: "Then she is a patient?" "What's that?" asked Stuart, regarding her surprisedly. "A patient? Certainly. She suffers from insomnia." "I'm no' surprised to hear it." "What do you mean, Mrs. M'Gregor?" "Now, Mr.
And it is hard to side-step an unheralded stroke from behind. "Well," he said unemotionally, "it's his first move." "Hes last, yuh mean," muttered Red sotto voce, "fer I am to be first if he bats hes eye." But aloud he merely said, "That's what," and took a fresh chew of plug. Douglass's perplexity as how his coup was to be executed increased with every passing hour.
Gibney grinned rather foolishly, spat, and spoke to McGuffey, sotto voce: "By George, the joke ain't all on Scraggsy," he said. Then turning to Captain Scraggs: "Help yourself to the mustard, Scraggsy, old tarpot." Captain Scraggs took off his hat, rolled up his sleeves, and made a dive for the royal presence.
And with this idea paramount in his brain he gave himself up to the humour of the hour and by and by heads were turned in his direction, and people whispered 'Is that the parson of the parish? and when the answer was given in the affirmative, wondering glances were exchanged, and someone at the other end of the table remarked sotto voce: 'Much too brilliant a man for the country! whereat Miss Arabella Ittlethwaite bridled up and said she 'hoped nobody thought that town offered the only samples of the human brain worth noticing, as she would, in that case, 'beg to differ. Whereat there ensued a lively discussion, which ended, so far as the general experience went, in the decision that clever men were always born or discovered in the country, but that after a while they invariably went up to town, and there became famous.
From the centre window an excellent view might be obtained of Reuben struggling with the cabin-trunk, which the placid taxi-driver had unstrapped and lowered on to the janitor's shoulders without vacating his seat. "I hope he won't break the clock," said Flamby, sotto voce. She turned as Don went up to a little table at which a round old lady, the only occupant of the room, was seated writing.
"You are a horrid boy!" "She has gone to bed," says Tita, reappearing in the drawing-room just as the clock strikes nine on the following evening. "Thank goodness!" says Mrs. Chichester, sotto voce, at which Captain Marryatt laughs. "She is not very ill, I hope?" says Margaret. "Oh no! A mere headache." "Bile!" suggests Mr. Gower prettily. Tita looks angrily at him.
"I merely stopped for a few moments on my way from the train." She followed him to the door, and said, sotto voce: "You held your own splendidly. Your first report is more than satisfactory;" and he departed happier than any major-general in the service. When the rest had gone, Lane, who had persistently lingered, began: "No doubt it will appear absurd to you that a friend should be jealous.
So pleasing an invitation not being announced sotto voce, but in a tone suited to the importance of the proposition, every one around heard it; and before Long Ned could answer, the full voice of Gentleman George thundered forth, "Keep the peace there, you youngster! What! are you just admitted into our merry-makings, and must you be wrangling already?
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