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Winton shivered, as one shivers recalled from dreams; and, carefully brushing off the ash with his left hand, he answered: "Yes; very jolly. My cigar's out, though, and I haven't a match." Gyp's hand slipped through his arm. "All these people in love, and so dark and whispery it makes a sort of strangeness in the air. Don't you feel it?" Winton murmured: "No moon to-night!"
Yeou see," his voice assumed a mystic, whispery tone, "she never knowed when hit war night, 'n' the people wouldn't tell her, nur make a move till she quit beant hit even mawnin'. Arter readin', she'd talk awhile; tellin' 'em things they'd orter do, 'n' things they'd orten't. 'N' onct she clean busted up a feud by makin' two ole fellers shake han's. That caught the preacher's eye.
'N' she give me the ole mare, 'n' nine dollars all we had. The mawnin' I left," his voice slipped back into the whispery accents, "she put her arms 'round my neck, 'n' asked me ter make her one promise." "What was that promise? Can you tell me?" "Hit war jest somethin'," he hesitated, flushing.
On the shadowed, needle-carpeted slopes there is always a whispery kind of calm; the calm of Nature moving quietly about her appointed tasks, without haste and without uncertainty, untorn by doubts or fears or futile questioning; like a broad-souled, deep-bosomed mother contentedly rearing her young in a sheltered home where love abides in the peace which passeth understanding.
Her voice, when she spoke, was whispery: "You mean for love?" "Absolutely. Right on the bull's-eye. For love." "Oh, Mr. Wooster!" "I take it you believe in love at first sight?" "I do, indeed." "Well, that's what happened to this aching heart. It fell in love at first sight, and ever since it's been eating itself out, as I believe the expression is." There was a silence.
"Snookums." Her voice was whispery. He shook his head. "No. Apparently he tried to jump Vaneski and got hit with a stun beam. It shouldn't have killed him but apparently it did." "God, God, God," she said softly. "Here I've been crying about a damned machine, and poor Lew has been lying up there dead." She buried her face in her hands, and her voice was muffled when she spoke again.
'Course," added Bruce reminiscently, "maybe I said it too loud 'cause I was awful glad and excited when I found Stripey was all right. I 'most shouted it, Mrs. Blythe. Maybe if I'd said it sort of whispery like you and father it would have been all right. Do you know, Mrs. Blythe" Bruce dropped to a "whispery" tone, edging a little nearer to Anne "what I would like to do to the Kaiser if I could?"
Then with a soft, whispery, ghost-like intaking of the breath, a quantity of sand on the straight road before them got up under their horses' feet and moved away to another spot and dropped again with a peppering sound and was dead moveless earth again. The little breath of wind from under the edge of the sky had fallen.
"Auntie, he-he told me that father has been married before. Is it true that he divorced her, and she married Jon Forsyte's father?" Never in all the life of the mother of four little Darties had Winifred felt more seriously embarrassed. Her niece's face was so pale, her eyes so dark, her voice so whispery and strained.
"You not let moon look on you," she chided in an undertone, her sentences clipped of superfluous words as is the Indian way, her voice that pure, throaty melody that is a gift which nature gives lavishly to the women of savage people. "Moon see, men see." Ramon swung back into the shadow, reached out his two arms to fold her close and got nothing more substantial than another whispery laugh.
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