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I shuddered, but Landers leaned over the table and said to me, sotto voce: "McHenry's tellin' his usual bloody lie. Brown got the vanilla all right, but what he did was to have the bloomin' Chink consign it to him proper', and not give him a receipt.
Few of the visitors got close enough to verify the intelligence without receiving a sotto voce warning that rough talk was taboo Miller's ungodly clan saw to that and on the whole the warning was respected. Only once was it disregarded; then a heavy loser breathed a thoughtless oath.
They had had no little difficulty in waking him up, and he entered vaguely supposing they had arrived at an inn where they were to spend the night. If his grumbling and swearing as he advanced was SOTTO VOCE, the assuagement was owing merely to his not being sufficiently awake to use more vigour.
Sotto voce to her: "Remember, Esther, while I'm gone, the royalties from the discaphone records are yours. I want you to have them for pin-money and maybe a dowry?" She turned from him. "Don't, Leon don't " "I like him! Nice fellow, but too slow! Why, if I were in his shoes I'd have popped long ago." She smiled with her lashes dewy.
Now, no remarks; I'm a skipper, and I expect to be obeyed, or I'll put you in irons." "You've done that already," said Arthur, sotto voce. "Mildred, I won't go, and that's flat." "My dear, you mean that you are afraid of being flat.
Diana was chiefly employed in listening to the sotto voce inanities of Mrs. Sheldon, for whom the girl showed herself admirably patient.
His hand shook badly, and he spilled some drops of whisky and soda upon his trousers. 'Damn! cried he in annoyance. Then to himself sotto voce, 'Now that I've got back to this old quiet place I'll soon have my rotten nerves right again.
You know what Patton always said Grab 'em by the nose and kick 'em in the pants." Colonel Hampton re-lighted his cigar. "Patton only said 'pants' when he was talking for publication," he told her, sotto voce. Then he noticed the unsigned commitment paper lying on the desk. He picked it up, crumpled it, and threw it into the fire. "I don't think you'll be needing that," he said.
But though strange lands, and unknown or indifferent people, are legitimate subjects for travellers' tales, our FRIENDS and their pleasant homes are NOT; so I shall keep all I have to say of gratitude to our excellent and hospitable Consul, Mr. Morch, and of admiration for his charming wife, until I can tell you viva voce how much I wish that you also knew them.
But how can we know truth, unless we know what is at the root of it?" "I think," murmured Greta, sotto voce, "you see one way and he sees another because you are not one person." "Of course!" said Christian impatiently, "but why " A sound of humming interrupted her. Nicholas Treffry was coming from the house, holding the Times in one hand, and a huge meerschaum pipe in the other.
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