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We will let him put it in his own drawling tones: "Friens, it am like dis. Though I has bin a Christian for months, I could not bring myself to gib away de hidin' places of my ol' pals. It looked too much like treachery and betrayal. P'raps I'm wrong but, if so, you'uns will pardon me. But now de case am diffrunt.
After long consideration, he replied in a drawling and nasal voice: "It must be a kind of malignant fever which leads the brain astray; but in truth, Monseigneur, I have never reflected on it until this moment. I have always been embarrassed in speaking to a woman.
He had said Twenty-One, so it was to be twenty-one. A sharp bell-note impinged from beneath, and in a moment the drawling voice of the speaker stopped. Once more she lifted her wrist, saw that it wanted five minutes of the hour; then she leaned forward from her corner and stared down into the House. A great change had passed over it at the metallic noise.
Sam came sheepishly forward, shook hands in a flabby way, and said, in drawling tones, "How-do," then retired behind the stove to gaze with melancholy soberness at Yan, whenever he could do so without being caught at it. Mr. and Mrs. Raften were attending to various matters elsewhere, and Yan was left alone and miserable.
You'll find me willing, anyway," she said almost humbly. Gertie looked up at her with real kindness. "Wllling's half the battle," she said in softened tone. As Nora was leaving the room, satisfied at having done her part as far as Gertie was concerned, she was recalled by Taylor's drawling tone. "Oh, Miss Nora, you're forgetting something." "Am I? What?"
It seemed as if she was detached, aloof, dead already in body as she was in soul.... And then she heard the drawling voice of Wylackie Bob and he was saying something unspeakable about her! She listened like one in a trance then she struggled up from her chair with tragic long arms extended, and the cry that rang from her lips was piteous.
I wheeled and faced him, standing firmly between his approach and the girl, my blood instantly boiling at the familiar sound of that drawling voice. "I have refused to accept from Mademoiselle what I had not fairly earned," I said, with quiet emphasis, "and so, no doubt, will you."
'Oh, nothing! Avdey smiled with great meaning. 'Nothing! Kister looked searchingly at his friend. 'You are feeling hurt, my poor Avdey; tell me... Lutchkov went off into a chuckle. 'Oh, well, I don't fancy I've much to feel hurt about, he said, in a drawling tone, complacently stroking his moustaches.
He appears to be getting up a little speech and practising on a smaller scale for a Debating Society the lowest ambition a man can have. Besides, by his manner of drawling out his words, and interlarding his periods with innuendos and formal reservations, he is evidently making up his mind all the time which side he shall take.
He got slowly to his feet, as a cloud of colour drew over the face of Nahoum and his eyes darkened with astonishment and anger. Lacey put his hands in his pockets and waited till Nahoum also rose. Then he gathered the other's eyes to his, and said with drawling scorn: "So, you thought I didn't understand!
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