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"It has been very difficult there were circumstances so many circumstances " He sighed and finished on the toneless parrot-note of the street orator: "My next meeting will be at Marble Arch, 3 p.m., on Tuesday. Thank you for your attention, and good-night." He lifted his hat and bowed to left and right as though to an assembled multitude.
But the coroner was very kind, very soothing and gentle in his manner, just as that other coroner had been when dealing with Ellen Green at the inquest on that poor drowned girl. After the witness had repeated in a toneless voice the solemn words of the oath, she began to be taken, step by step, though her story. At once Mrs.
"Great heaven!" exclaimed Miss Thangue, aghast at this toneless frankness. "You must have been glad to be rid of him!" "I was fond of him, but his death was a great relief. He was a hard steady secret drinker. I nursed him through several attacks of delirium tremens, and was always in fear that he would get out and disgrace us.
Carse leaned musing in a corner of the control cabin, oblivious to the well-meaning but toneless voice with which Ban Wilson, at the electelscope was butchering a song. A gentle tap on the shoulder summoned him out of his study. He turned and saw that Leithgow had come to him. Carse smiled at the old scientist, and said: "Well, Eliot, we'll be in soon now.
It soon righted him, and he did Lord Ormont justice, and argued the case against Lady Charlotte's naked hints. This dark-eyed heroine's bearing was assured, beyond an air of dependency. Her deliberate short nod to him at his leave-taking, and the toneless few words she threw to my lord, signified sufficiently that she did not stand defying the world or dreading it.
From somewhere within the building answered a mournful clangour, a cracked and toneless jangle, which, seeming to echo through empty apartments, sought and found an exit apparently by way of one of the openings in the round tower; for it was from above our heads that the noise came to us.
"Why!" he exclaimed. "There's columns about Wild-cats on the front page here!" "Yes?" Mrs. Windlebird's voice sounded strangely dull and toneless. Her eyes were still closed. Roland took in the headlines with starting eyes.
"Good Lord!" he thought, pitiful, "it's worse here than I dreamed. Old Graham must need a keeper and this child has been trying to be that, with nothing to keep him on." "Who are you?" the girl demanded sullenly, in a voice a little harsh and toneless. "What are you doing here? Where's my father?" "Mr. Graham has stepped out on business," Duncan replied. "You are his daughter, I believe?"
Mary Co-que-wasa, her go down and watch your house all the time, for good chance to tak' her. When you go out she mak' little fire under the bank for signal; and Nick Grylls and 'Erbe't and Xavier, them all go down. They not tak' me." Garth cursed himself to think how he had played directly into their hands. "I wait, and bam-by they bring her back," continued Rina in her toneless voice.
She knocked at the door, and then she took up her tray. "Come in, Mrs. Bunting." Mr. Sleuth's voice sounded feebler, more toneless than usual. She turned the handle of the door and walked in. The lodger was not sitting in his usual place; he had taken the little round table on which his candle generally rested when he read in bed, out of his bedroom, and placed it over by the drawing-room window.
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