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Many a notorious coward, many a chicken-livered poltroon, coarse, brutal, degraded, has made his dying speech without a quaver in his voice and been swung into eternity with what looked liked the calmest fortitude, and so we are justified in believing, from the low intellect of such a creature, that it was not moral courage that enabled him to do it.
She was startled by Betsy's fierce sudden clutch at their little purse and by the quaver in her voice as she answered: "No, no, Molly. We've got to save every cent of that. I've found out it costs thirty cents for us both to go home to Hillsboro on the train. The last one goes at six o'clock." "We haven't got but ten," said Molly.
It wasn't" he faltered "it wasn't because you were dissatisfied with me?" he concluded, with a quaver. "Pinkerton!" cried I. "No, no, not a word just now," he hastened to proceed. "Let me speak first. I appreciate, though I can't imitate, the delicacy of your nature; and I can well understand you would rather die than speak of it, and yet might feel disappointed.
There should be a flageolet, whence the Cigarette, with cunning touch, should draw melting music under the stars; or perhaps, laying that aside, upraise his voice somewhat thinner than of yore, and with here and there a quaver, or call it a natural grace-note in rich and solemn psalmody. All this, simmering in my mind, set me wishing to go aboard one of these ideal houses of lounging.
Jest back her around to another view of the question with a slack plow-line. Looks like it's too bad to " "Rose Mary, oh, Rose Mary, where are ye, child?" came a call in a high, sweet old quaver of a voice from down the garden path, and Miss Amanda hove in sight, hurrying along on eager but tottering little feet.
As for me, curiosity as to his fate bested my judgment. I followed. As we neared the top of the house, the thumping and hammering grew louder and more vicious; and when we finally stood outside the door, the din was actually deafening. "That's that's either William's room or the cook's," said Hawkins, with a slight quaver in his tones. "He's going it, isn't he?" "He certainly is.
"A brawl?" "Well, something of that sort," Villon admitted, with a quaver. "Perhaps a fellow murdered?" "Oh no, not murdered," said the poet, more and more confused. "It was all fair play murdered by accident. I had no hand in it, God strike me dead!" he added, fervently. "One rogue the fewer, I dare say," observed the master of the house.
Though Benny could understand nothing of the pathetic sadness, he felt a strong desire to offer consolation and cheer, and he said, "I can build wigwams. Me 'n 'Bijah'll make you a wigwam!" But the aged Chetonquin muttered to herself in a tuneless quaver, and shook her head doubtingly. "What! She don't believe it!" Benny exclaimed to himself. "Don't believe that 'Bijah can make wigwams!
The fact that he could converse, that he had shed his terrible loneliness, steadied him as nothing else could have done. He was surprised at his own calmness, at the fact that there was scarcely a quaver in the voice with which he answered the man. "I'm Spike Walters," he said with surprising quietness. "I'm a driver for the Yellow and White Taxicab Company. My cab is No. 92,381.
"O scream, squeak, mew, gurgle, groan, agonize, quiver, quaver, just as much as you please, Madam, I have my foot on the fortissimo pedal, and thunder myself deaf! O Satan, Satan! which of thy goblins damned has got into this throat, pinching, and kicking, and cuffing the tones about so! Four strings have snapped already, and one hammer is lamed for life.
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