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"Well," replied Madame Gorka to Hafner with her habitual good-nature, "there are at least two of these coffers that I like and wish to have. I said it in so loud a tone that it is not worth the trouble of hoping that your Cavalier Fossati does not know it, if he really has that mode of espionage in practice. But forty or fifty pounds more make no difference nor forty thousand even."
My business relations I am powerless to govern; but friendship is a different matter. M. Lenoble is a gentleman of ancient lineage and amiable character." "And rich, I suppose, papa?" asked Diana. She thought that her father would scarcely speak of the gentleman in a tone so profoundly respectful if he were not rich. "Yes, Diana.
His technique is not astonishing, but he has a full, penetrating, sympathetic tone. There is no charlatanism or trickery in his playing, nor any virtuoso effects, but the charm of it rests in his glowing temperament, ideal conception, and wonderful power of expression. He has been regarded as phenomenal, because he can move the hearts of his hearers as few other violinists are able to do.
But without the slightest fear Edwin answered in an audible tone: "Yes, sir, I know that the work is pushing us hard just now, but this matter, to my mind at least, is of far greater importance than all the work on the farm. And then I do not expect my master to give me the time off to attend the camp-meeting.
Then as she gazed into his face she added pathetically, "Oh, I cannot tell you how I have wished that I might only have someone to sympathize with me and help me! I can tell everything to you, Arthur." "You are not happy with your husband?" asked the other, in a wondering tone, not able to guess what she meant. "Happy!" echoed Helen. "Arthur, he is ill, and I have been so terrified!
I have hitherto only given his conversation in one of its moods; henceforth I shall be just enough occasionally to be dull, and to present it sometimes to the reader in a graver tone. Buried deep beneath the surface of his character, was a hidden, yet a restless ambition: but this was perhaps, at present, a secret even to himself.
Adair and the agitated lady who stood with her hand on the door-knob of number sixteen. "My dear madam," the doctor was saying in a tone that betokened the limit of patience, "you really must leave the matter to my judgment, if we operate " "But you won't unless it's the last resort?" pleaded the lady. "You know how frightfully sensitive to pain he is.
"Perhaps," replied Janet, in the tone that means "not at all."
"How should you?" he said, in a changed tone. "We Americans set up monuments to our destroyers, not to our preservers, of life. Nobody knows about Walter Reed and James Carroll and Jesse Lazear not even the American Government, which they officially served except a few doctors and dried-up entomologists like myself. Forgive me. I didn't mean to deliver a lecture."
"What took you there first?" asked Christie, still wondering at Mrs. Wilkins's choice of a minister. "The Lord, my dear," answered the good woman, in a tone of calm conviction. "I'd heard of him, and I always have a leanin' towards them that's reviled; so one Sabbath I felt to go, and did.
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