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No offer was made to reengage him, and as he turned away from the door of the counting-room, he heard the man remark, in a sneering under-tone to a person present, "a poor milk-sop!" Generally, the unfortunate are stung to the quick by any reflection upon them by those in a better condition; and few were more alive to ridicule than Wilmer.
From time to time there was the bright flare of a match as one of them lighted a cigarette, but except for the low under-tone of the throbbing engines and the even wash of the waves about the stern the yacht was quiet as a dream boat star-bound through the heavens. Round them bowed the smell of the night sea, bringing with it an infinite languor. Carlyle broke the silence at last.
Then, finding me firm, he changed his tone, and there were hidden threats mixed with his entreaties. It would be a bad thing for me if I refused to go with him, he said; I would have cause to repent my folly for the rest of my life. He said a great deal, using every argument it is possible to imagine; and there was always the same threatening under-tone.
"I am going to London to-morrow. Good-by." "Good-by," she answered, holding out her hand to him. Then she added quickly, in an under-tone, "You oughtn't to think badly of me. You won't, after a while." As they drove homeward, she was rather silent, and Miss Belinda remarked it. "I am afraid you are tired, Octavia," she said. "It is a pity that Martin should come, and find you tired." "Oh!
Tompkins contented herself by saying, in an under-tone, to one who sat near her "They may say what they please, but I am well enough acquainted with her to know that she is no better than other people." Thus the conversation and the conjectures went round, while the subject of them sat in solitude and sadness in her own chamber.
I felt O'Keefe grip my arm; Yolara threw her white arms out in a welcoming gesture; I heard from the tier a sigh of rapture and in it a poignant, wailing under-tone of agony! Over the waters, down the light stream, to the end of the ivory pier, flew the Shining One. Through its crystal pizzicati drifted inarticulate murmurings deadly sweet, stilling the heart and setting it leaping madly.
We should, no doubt, over-time and under-tone, and otherwise wrong the countenances of some of our sitters; but we should get the knack in a week or two, and if Baron Wenzel owned to having spoiled a hat-full of eyes before he had fairly learned how to operate for cataract, we need not think too much of libelling a few village physiognomies before considering ourselves fit to take the minister and his deacons.
'I hate you! cried Bella, turning suddenly upon him, with a stamp of her little foot 'at least, I can't hate you, but I don't like you! 'HUL LO! exclaimed Mr Boffin in an amazed under-tone. 'You're a scolding, unjust, abusive, aggravating, bad old creature! cried Bella. 'I am angry with my ungrateful self for calling you names; but you are, you are; you know you are!
She stood one moment statue-still, And, musing, spake in under-tone, "The living love may colder grow; The dead is safe with God alone!" The Spanish Conquest in America, and its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies. By ARTHUR HELPS. Vols. I. and II. London, 1855. Vol. III. London, 1857.
"And perhaps be hung for treason," said Stearns, in a sneering under-tone. "Do you answer for him or not, Mr. Knights?" demanded Sabin, impatiently. "No, your honor; he has not authorized me. I only made a suggestion," answered the former. "Then judgment must go for Peters," rejoined Sabin, with ill suppressed warmth.
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