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She said the room might be wanted any day now, and it must be cleaned." "Coming home," murmured the rector, as he steadied himself with the aid of the banister, "coming home! coming home!" There was a different inflection in his voice each time he repeated the phrase. Tenderness crept into the words, and tears streamed down his cheeks, as he passed slowly into his study. "Coming home!
She did not yet stir, but there came into her face a slight inflection of confusion or perplexity. Again he raised his hat to her, and, smiling, wished her a good-morning. Even as he did so a thought sprung in him. Understanding gave place to wonder; he interpreted the unusual look in her face. Instantly he made a sign to her.
With a word, with an inflection, he reassured everybody and yet said naught and the cheerfulness instantly became genuine. Mr. Prohack was surprised at the intensity of his own feelings. He was thoroughly thrilled by what he himself had done.
"Why do you speak as if the money had come to both?" asked Miss Sherman, with a curious inflection of the voice. "Did I? I did not realize it. But I will not change my words; for, unless I mistake much, the money will be Bettina's as much as Barbara's, and this, because Barbara will have it so." The words were hardly spoken by Mrs. Douglas when Mr.
To the work of inflection, or of momentary inspiration?" "My lord," answered Corinne, with a look that expressed the highest interest and the most delicate sentiment of respectful consideration, "it is you that I would wish to make the judge of that; but if you ask me to examine my own thoughts upon this subject, I would say that improvisation is to me as an animated conversation.
Not a single inflection of his low-pitched, gently modulated voice was wanting; not a single infinitesimal mannerism was changed, even to the little tilting of the chin when he spoke, or the quick winking of the eyelids, or the smile that narrowed the corners of the eyes themselves, or the trick of perfect repose of his whole body.
It was absurd to think he should be so deeply moved by any woman alive, he who prided himself on his self-possession. Down a long hall on the tenth floor the boy led him, and tapped at a door, which was opened after a pause by a quiet woman who greeted him with outstretched hand, kindly cordial. "How do you do, Mr. Douglass? It is very good of you to come," she said, with the simplest inflection.
"My Mother" is spoken by the world-hardened citizen with a gentler inflection, a reverential cadence, as if the inner man stood with uncovered head before a shrine. Mother-in-law! The words call a smile that is too often a sneer to lips in which dwells habitually the law of kindness, while lampoon, caricature, jest and song find in them theme and catchword for mockery and insult.
Is it not sublime this nation-making? that this generation, and particularly a few individuals like you, sir, and myself should be honored by Heaven with the task of founding a people! It is as grand as the nebulous making of stars!" The seigneur's manner was full of enthusiasm. "I can't see it as you young men do," Chrysler said, in an inflection suggestive of regret.
Roger did not answer until the boat had come fairly close under the rail, and meanwhile young Webster stood looking up at him as if more than half expecting bad news. Only when the boat was so near that each could see the other's expression and hear every inflection of the other's voice, did Roger reply. "He is dead."
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