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Updated: May 11, 2025
He wouldn't have wondered any longer could he have looked into the hall of the house at that moment; for the man who had just entered had no sooner closed the lower door than one above flashed open, a stream of light gushed down the stairs, and a calm, well-modulated voice said serenely: "Come right up, Mr. Narkom. I knew it would be you before your motor turned the corner.
Wearing neither coat nor vest, the bartender's ruffled shirt displayed a glistening stone; the sleeves were ornamented with gold buttons and the lace collar had a Byronic roll. "What will you have, sir?" he said in a well-modulated voice to a big Virginian, who had preceded Barnes into the room. "A julep," was the reply, "and, while you are making it, a little whisky straight."
The ex-official could hear little, but he had cultivated the habit of talking constantly and well. There were some voices, however, which he could hear more distinctly than others, and Lord Windlehurst's was one of them clear, well-modulated, and penetrating. Sipping brandy and water, Lord Windlehurst gave his latest quip.
In the new dawn he, for the first time, was able to obtain a good look at his captor, and, if he had been puzzled and frightened before, those sensations were nothing to what he experienced now. Who and what could this almost naked, white savage be? He had heard him speak but once when he had cautioned him to silence and then in excellent German and the well-modulated tones of culture.
The eyes of both children were blue, as blue as cornflowers, and their hair very light, the boy's curling in tight rings but the girl's straight and bobbed. "I want to see the manager," said the woman in a well-modulated voice. "Dr. Weston will be here in a few minutes," said Mary Louise. "Won't you sit down?" The young woman sank into a chair.
His fine personal appearance, his well-modulated and far-reaching voice, and his refined manner at once won the favor of his audience. He was a splendid type of the scholar in politics. In preparing a speech he took as much pains as he did with a volume which he was about to publish.
According to mademoiselle's own words, it would have been impossible." "None the less, what I have said is true," said John Law, calmly, his voice even and well-modulated, vibrating a little, yet showing no trace of anger nor of emotional uncontrol. "But I tell you it could not be!" again exclaimed the regent. "No, it is impossible," broke in the young Duc de Richelieu.
He was now the well-modulated man of affairs, elegant in his simplicity of dress, with the dignified air of the intellectual, yet with the decision of a man who knew his mind. Lord Windlehurst was leaving. Now David and she were alone.
He had recovered his self-control. He laughed presently it was a light, well-modulated laugh, not the laugh of a shocked or very much interested man. Miss Gordon was relieved but disappointed. And then Raymond went out to do his thinking alone. He walked the streets as people often do who are lonely and can find relief in action.
Please let me hear something you've written!" He pondered a moment, then in his well-modulated, deep-toned voice began: His voice ceased and silence fell between the man and woman in the old sugar-house. Gabriel sat there by the dying fire, which cast its ruddy light over his strongly virile face, and gazed into the coals.
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