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He hung up the receiver, crossed the room to his desk, unlocked one of the drawers, and produced a black memorandum book, secured with a brass lock. He drew a key from his watch chain, opened the book, and ran his fingers down the O's. "Odino," he muttered to himself. "Here it is: 'We have trustworthy information from Berlin. Now Berry." He turned back.
Of accent in his speech there was none, but Desmond's ear, trained to foreigners' English, could detect a slight Continental intonation, a little roll of the "r's," an unfamiliar sound about those open "o's" of the English tongue, which are so fatal a trap for foreigners speaking our language.
This speech pleased Katinka so much that she patted the letter O's on each side of her head with great satisfaction, and was very sorry she had not made some chocolate cakes for Dotty to eat in the cars. Uncle Henry did not like to part with his bright little niece.
It is such a fond anxious mother's voice that you hear, as Lisbeth says, "Well, my lad, it's gone seven by th' clock. Thee't allays stay till the last child's born. Thee wants thy supper, I'll warrand. Where's Seth? Gone arter some o's chapellin', I reckon?" "Aye, aye, Seth's at no harm, mother, thee mayst be sure.
Why, the fellow is all O! That accounts for his reasoning in a circle, and explains why there is neither beginning nor end to him, nor to anything he says. We really do not believe the vagabond can write a word that hasn't an O in it. Wonder if this O-ing is a habit of his? By-the-by, he came away from Down-East in a great hurry. Wonder if he O's as much there as he does here? "O! it is pitiful."
A sheet of rough writing paper, tied on by a shred of osier, served her for a hat. Beneath this paper covered with pot-hooks and round O's, from which it derived the name of "schoolpaper" the loveliest mass of blonde hair that ever a daughter of Eve could have desired, was twisted up, and held in place by a species of comb made to comb out the tails of horses.
Sandy an' me gaed kloiterin' alang the Port, Sandy yatterin' ilky noo-an'-than "Keep on the plennies, 'oman." He was keepin' his e'e on his feet that steady, that, afore I kent whaur I was, he had baith o's wammlin' aboot amon' the gutters doon the Dens. He'd taen the wrang side o' the dyke at the fit o' the High Road, an' awa' doon the brae instead o' up!
For the rest, he wore a handsome silver-hilted rapier at his side, and had a frilled cambric shirt somewhat the worse for wear and open at the front, as was the mode with the gallants of those days. All the time he was speaking he mumbled a toothpick, which together with his constant habit of pronouncing his o's as a's made his conversation sound strange to our ears.
A minute later Liffie appeared with her mouth and eyes like three round O's. "If you please, ma'am, here's Mister and Missis Dalton, as wants to know if they may come in." "Mr and Mrs who?" exclaimed both sisters. "Mister an' Missis Dalton," repeated Liffie. "Show them in at once, child. Some ridiculous mistake," said Jessie, glancing at Kate. "But, stay, Liffie; you have no objection, captain?"
In particular he related how once Vitali had knitted his fine, almost womanlike eyes, and said in a bass which stressed its "o's": "On our first arrival here, we found in possession only prehistoric chaos and demoniacal influence. Everywhere had clinging weeds grown to rankness; everywhere one found one's feet entangled among bindweed and other vegetation of the sort.
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