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This time his chuckle had an undernote of malice; and Roy, considering him thoughtfully from green turban to patent-leather shoes felt an acute desire to take him by the scruff of his English coat and dust the Jaipur market-place with the remnant of him. Aloud he said coolly: "Thanks for the prescription. Are you stopping here long?" "Oh, I am meteoric visitant. Never very long anywhere.
As he bent over to reach it his hand shook, his arm shook, his whole body shook. Monty Price jumped straight forward and crouched down with a strange, low cry. Stewart seemed all at once rigid, bending a little. "Say Miss Hammond, if there's occasion to use her name," said Stewart, in a voice that seemed coolly pleasant, yet had a deadly undernote.
She said she was tired of the Folies that night and suggested a drive. I called a careta and as we were driving down the boulevard I said to her: "Is this existence always pleasant? Is it not as it was with that officer, often unendurable?" She replied in a bantering tone, only half hiding a hurt undernote. "I'm getting used to it," she said.
He laughed as he patted her hand. "We shan't see another soul, dear," he assured her. She laid her cheek against his. "How hot your face feels," she exclaimed. "Throw open the window, do. I shan't feel it." He obeyed her at once. The roar of the city, all its harshness muffled, came to them in a sombre, almost melodious undernote. She rested her hands upon his shoulder.
There was a flash of impatience, an undernote of foreknowledge, in his tone, that made confession at once easier and harder for Roy. "I suppose it was pretty glaring", he admitted, twitching his head away from those strong friendly fingers. "The fact is we're ... as good as engaged " Again he broke off, arrested by the mask-like stillness of Desmond's face.
What a sound that is the roar of London, the voices of the street, the ceaseless hum, the creaking of the great wheel of humanity as it goes round and round. And then, perhaps, in a certain mood the undernote falls upon your ear, the bitter, long-drawn-out cry of the hopeless and helpless. When you have once heard it, life is never the same again.
Blake spoke with that indefinable undernote which creeps into men's voices when friend meets friend. "I've been lost without you, too. I was quite ashamed of myself." The Count turned to a middle-aged man who had remained in the shadows, saying: "This is Ricardo Ferara, my good right hand, of whom you have heard me speak."
Are you prepared to declare war on the entire world of finance?" Now Malone spoke with regained composure, but an ominous undernote of threat. "Let's have done with pretense. In so far as any individuals can make or break we can. When you came, an unlicked cub, into the world of large affairs it was through us you made the alliances upon which your success is built.
"You knew me well enough yesterday to be reasonably certain of what I would do in given circumstances, didn't you, Patricia?" he began abruptly. "To-day you are not so sure about it. Why?" She laughed lightly, but there was a serious undernote in her voice when she said: "There are moments when you make me wonder if you haven't been dabbling in necromancy, Evan.
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