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On the evening of the second day de Spain was invited to join the family at supper. In the evening the Jeffrieses went down-town. De Spain was talking with Nan in the living-room when the telephone-bell rang in the library. De Spain took the call, and a man's voice answered his salutation. The speaker asked for Mr. de Spain and seemed particular to make sure of his identity.
A relative in the House had undertaken to telephone the event to me at the earliest moment, so that I should have plenty of time to chronicle a victory for common sense, or deplore the first step in an ill-judged constitutional revolution. When the telephone-bell rang and the figures of the division were given, they showed a majority against the rejection of the Bill.
And Eileen smiled a shy, pleased smile without words. The sound of the telephone-bell in the hall made Maud start with a swift contradiction of the brows. "That's probably Charlie, Jake, I ought to answer him." "Don't you worry yourself!" said Jake, turning to the door. "I'll answer him myself."
When the telephone-bell jarred out suddenly in the dim stillness of the hall, Gladys sprang up with a sharp cry, her hands to her ears, as if to shut out the sound. But Lillian ran lightly out of the room, and the two heard in wonder the sure vibrations of her clear composed accents. "Yes, Long Distance, this is Mrs. Royston." Then suddenly her tones were pervaded with embarrassment: "Oh, Mr.
The telephone-bell had rung, and Girard ran to it, closing the intervening door behind him. The curtain of anxiety, lifted for breathing-space for a moment, hung over them again somberly, like a pall. Where was Justin? The two women clinging together hung breathlessly on Girard's movements; his low, murmuring voice told nothing. When he returned to where they stood, his face was impassive.
At ten o'clock that evening, when Charlotte had seen her sister comfortably in bed for Celia still needed help in undressing had tucked in Just and warned Jeff that it was bedtime, the telephone-bell rang. Lanse and Captain Rayburn sat reading in the living-room, where the telephone stood upon a desk, and Lanse, who was near it, moved lazily to answer it.
He heard a click over the wire which told him that connection was cut off; and after that he paced the floor again, wishing and hoping for the ringing of his telephone-bell. "We are coming to the city at once," Gardner told him, when at last it did ring, and Duncan had taken down the receiver. "What the devil is the matter with everything, anyhow?
Rilla, as far as the care and feeding of infants was concerned, was utterly demoralized. Then the telephone-bell rang. There was nothing unusual about the telephone ringing. It rang on an average every ten minutes at Ingleside. But Rilla dropped Jims' spoon again on the carpet this time and flew to the 'phone as if life depended on her getting there before anybody else.
"Mary Datchet," Katharine replied briefly. "Ah I half wish I'd called you Mary, but it wouldn't have gone with Hilbery, and it wouldn't have gone with Rodney. Now this isn't the passage I wanted. She was cut short in her quotation by another imperative telephone-bell. Once more Katharine left the room. "My dear child, how odious the triumphs of science are!" Mrs. Hilbery exclaimed on her return.
Once there he found himself too tired even for the routine of reading the evening paper; and, while he tried to make up his mind to stretch up a hand to the switch, he dropped asleep, clutching the Westminster Gazette and with the light blazing on to his face. So he found himself five minutes later when the telephone-bell rang. The voice of a child, eager for praise, said: "I'm in bed, Eric.
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