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But one thing was common to all: a dead sullenness. "Why do you not obey the memsahib?" Kingozi asked in a reasonable tone. No one answered for some time. Finally the man who had been shot at replied. "There is no water. We are very tired. We cannot go on without water." "How can you get water if you do not go on?"
"Why, it won't do me any harm," he agreed. His tone was light. He released his hand and took up a cup of tea, and his tone went deep. "Mind you, I'm glad about it," he said, and stirred the spoon thoughtfully within the cup. "Yes, glad," he spoke; his voice, as was its habit when he was "inward," sounding as though it was the involuntary, and not the intentional, utterance of his thoughts.
The whole aspect of the place is peaceful. The hotel does not assert itself very loudly, and if occasionally transient guests appear with flash manners, they do not affect the general tone of the region. One finds, indeed, nature and social life happily blended, the exclusiveness being rather protective than offensive.
Presently Wee sang in a tone very like the bob-o-link's: "Daisy and Wee, Come here, and see What a dainty feast is spread: Down in the grass Where fairies pass, Here are berries ripe and red. "All wet with dew, They wait for you: Come hither, and eat your fill, While I gayly sing, In my airy swing, And the sun climbs up the hill."
I assure you he is very charming." His soul was full; and the fluctuations of her color, with the embarrassment of her step, more than affected him. "Then you do not leave town for some time, Miss Beaufort?" inquired he; "I may yet anticipate the honor of seeing " he hesitated a moment, then added in a depressed tone "your aunt, when I next wait on the Misses Dundas."
"Well, Margery, what is it that you have to tell me about my old book?" said Stephen, in a tone which would have told her, had she not been herself so engrossed in her subject, that she was not likely to have a very sympathising hearer. "Pray do not speak of it in that way, Stephen," she answered.
He moved himself round immediately to the front of her, and held her hand more firmly, as he continued, 'Cytherea, why do you say "It would," so entirely in the tone of abstract supposition? I want him there: I want him to be my brother, too. Then make him so, and be my wife! I cannot live without you. O Cytherea, my darling, my love, come and be my wife!
"Mistress Isabel," said the priest, without any introductory words, in his broken voice, and motioning her to a seat, "I cannot tell you what joy it was to see you at mass. Is it too much to hope that you will seek admission presently to the Catholic Church?" Isabel sat with downcast eyes. His tone was a little startling to her.
"You sent for me, my lord?" Captain Salt's voice was silvery in tone and pleasant to hear as running water. "I did," said the Earl, pressing his seal upon the letter and sitting down to direct it. "You have the lists?" The other drew a bundle of papers from his breastpocket, and advancing, laid them upon the table. The Earl put the letter aside, opened the bundle and ran his eye over its contents.
He had cut the side of his foot with a splinter of glass, and his mother would not allow him to put on his shoe. Hanny brought down her doll. Ben looked rather wistfully at her. "I wish you'd come in too. We're going to have such a nice time," she said in a soft tone. "I'd look fine playing with dolls." "But you needn't really play with dolls. Mrs. Dean doesn't. She's the grandmother.
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