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Nor do I pretend to say that she was disappointed, or anything of the sort, because Salina in her day possessed the very germ and root of a strong-minded woman of modern times, and persons of ordinary capacity are shy of running counter to ladies of that class all that we venture to assert is that she made a dead halt on the porch, looked up and down the garden, observed in an under-tone "It was raining cats and dogs yet," devices by which a weak-minded woman might have insinuated, that she had taken the subject of going home alone into consideration and thought better of it.
Geoffrey wrote a line in pencil on his card, and sent it into the house by the driver. After waiting some minutes, a lad appeared and touched his hat. Geoffrey spoke to him, out of the window, in an under-tone. The lad took his place on the box by the driver. The cab turned back, and took the road to the hotel near the Great Northern Railway.
Shortly after this the sick man was brought out, stretched upon a pallet, borne by Chowles and Judith; and the party proceeded slowly, and occasionally relieving each other, to the great western entrance, where a coach being procured by Pillichody, Parravicin was placed within it, with Judith and Chowles; and orders being given in an under-tone to the driver, he departed.
Phillips," said the sheriff, in the same cautious under-tone by which all their communications had been graduated, "we are all looking to you, what is your report?" "In the first place, that he is here." "Where?" "Sixty or seventy rods to the north of us, in a secure retreat up among the rocks, about a dozen rods from the shore." "Are you sure of that?" "Yes." "How did you make the discovery?"
'I suppose he will be back soon, he replied; 'he has cut out and left me expecting him back, in an odd way. Haven't I seen you before? 'Once before if you had your eyesight, replied Miss Wren; the conditional clause in an under-tone. 'When you were carrying on some games up at the top of the house. I remember. How's your friend? 'I have more friends than one, sir, I hope, replied Miss Wren.
But long before our party arrived at this final stage appetite had succumbed, and Gerard had suddenly remembered he was the bearer of a letter to the Princess Marie, and, in an under-tone, had asked one of the servants if he would undertake to deliver it.
The above conversation, which was addressed particularly to the Captain, was delivered in an under-tone, and was therefore unheard by Agnes, who was an attentive listener to Mr.
And he's a strong young fellow, as I know. 'I wish I could tell his mother, said the squire in an under-tone. 'It seems all settled now, said Mr. Gibson, more in reply to his own thoughts than to the squire's remark. 'Yes! said the squire; 'and they're not going to let the grass grow under his feet. He's to be off as soon as he can get his scientific traps ready. I almost wish he wasn't to go.
And throughout the 'Spectator' we may find a Christian under-tone in Addison's intolerance of infidelity, which is entirely wanting when the moralist is Eustace Budgell.
He was disgraced a branded, ruined man. The full conviction had been cruelly brought home to him by the words of that hopeful little girl. A smothered groan broke from him. Little Mary lifted her head, regarding him sadly, as he paced up and down the floor. "Mr. Chester," she said, following him, and speaking in a troubled under-tone, "don't look so sorrowful.
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