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We arrived there in good time, and well, you know the rest, Helen." "Not quite," answered the girl in a listless, toneless voice. "You have not yet told me what this man Chigmok proposed to do with me." "Well, the wounded Indian told us that he had fallen violently in love with you, and that he proposed to make you his squaw." "Ah!"
There was a servant in the hall. "Tell the others," he said in a cold, toneless voice, "that Mr. Ninian ... has been killed in France!" "Oh, sir!..." the girl cried, clasping her hands together. He did not wait to hear, and she hurried down the passage to the kitchens. "Two of us gone now," he said to himself.
His toneless voice rose and fell monotonously, and he appeared so detached from what he was saying that as Evelyn gazed at him she seemed to find difficulty in relating words that were said to the speaker; only the slight movement of the lips and an occasional formless gesture made the association definite.
Natalie paused; and with the ceasing of her voice, the great silence of the North woods seemed to leap between them, thrusting them asunder. Garth's heart for the journey was gone. He was thankful for the merciful darkness that hid his face. Presently she resumed in the toneless voice of one who tells what cannot be mended: "We were married in Toronto.
"To think," she said, "that we might have died and never seen it!" There followed a long silence. I thought she was tired, and would not break it. Suddenly she spoke in a strange voice, low and toneless; "The story of this place. She was the Princess Padmavati, and her home was in Ayodhya.
The throbbing tenderness had gone out of her voice, leaving it dry and toneless. "Hugh! You don't mean . . . you're angry that it's a girl?" He looked down at her at the frightened eyes, the lovely face fined by recent pain, and all his instinct was to reassure and comfort her. But something held him back.
He would rather have been subjected to the spectacle of tears than have heard that toneless voice, as it were the dry torrent-bed rolling blocks instead of melodious, if afflicting, waters.
They do hold palettes full of the strongest, richest colors, and dare lay them, in vivid flecks, on their canvas. They do not care if they may offend some modern cultivated eyes, used only to the invisible blues and shadowy greens and that host of cold, lifeless, toneless grays, of refined conventional art.
"You are not deceitful? You are not cold? You are not inhuman? Inhuman! You are not? You are not? Oh, my God! Look at her!" The toneless voice was as bitter for Rhoda to hear as the accusations. She replied, with a poor smile: "I am only not deceitful. Come, and see. You will not be disturbed." "What am I tied to?" Dahlia struggled feebly as against a weight of chains. "Oh! what am I tied to?
Now this seemed like a clear case of identification, and was perfectly satisfactory to Jacob, but I had observed this fact: the Pole was an indifferent singer having hard work to keep the key and the 'Count' was troubled in the same way. His deep, almost toneless, singing struck me as a dead, flat, wooden echo of Jacob's voice.
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