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But then K. spoke to him: "What do you think you're doing?" he shouted.
Huld, sir," he said, "did you hear the way this man spoke to me?
When he spoke very calmly he understood almost everything, but that was very infrequent, mostly the words gushed from his mouth and he seemed to be enjoying himself so much his head shook.
When he was talking in this way his speech was usually wrapped up in some kind of dialect which seemed to K. to have nothing to do with Italian but which the director not only understood but also spoke, although K. ought to have foreseen this as the Italian came from the south of his country where the director had also spent several years.
We waited some time, but matters seemed to get only more and more involved, until, at last, George's head came wriggling out over the side of the boat, and spoke up.
Then George spoke up.
Harris spoke quite kindly and sensibly about it.
We had the river to ourselves, except that, far in the distance, we could see a fishing-punt, moored in mid-stream, on which three fishermen sat; and we skimmed over the water, and passed the wooded banks, and no one spoke.
They spent the day in labour, reading, and prayer; and over all their lives there fell a silence as of death, for no one spoke.
They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.
Neither spoke; but the conversation that one could imagine was clearly as follows:-THE CAT: "Can I do anything for you?"MONTMORENCY: "No - no, thanks."
His father was dead against the business from the beginning, and spoke quite unfeelingly on the subject.
None of us spoke for a while; but, at length, George turned to the new comer, and said:"I beg your pardon, I hope you will forgive the liberty that we - perfect strangers in the neighbourhood - are taking, but my friend here and myself would be so much obliged if you would tell us how you caught that trout up there."
Nobody spoke.
Did you hear the way Gregor spoke just now?""That was the voice of an animal", said the chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's screams.
For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke about the same subject as there were always at least two members of the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty.
The traveler had also seated himself, and he sat unconsciously gazing on the fire, while Mr. Wharton spoke; turning his eyes slowly on his host with a look of close observation, he replied, while a faint tinge gathered on his features,-"Mr.
The brow of Harper contracted, and a deeper shade of melancholy crossed his features; his eye kindled with a transient beam of fire, that spoke a latent source of deep feeling.
He pressed her hand as he spoke, and looking back, while in the act of closing the door, exclaimed, "Be true to your country - be American."
For an instant only, as the negro spoke, did Harper suspend his silent meal; his eye moved slowly from the servant to the master, and again all remained in impenetrable reserve.
The indulgent benevolence expressed in the countenance of the stranger, as he bowed a silent acquiescence, spoke more eloquently than the nicest framed period, and the young lady repeated her order, with a confidence in its truth that removed all embarrassment.
But of the war, and of his father, he seldom spoke and always from some very obvious necessity.
There, if a suppliant, would I fly, Secure, 'mid danger, wrongs, and grief, Of sympathy, redress, relief- That glance, if guilty, would I dread More than the doom that spoke me dead."
As he spoke, he pointed to a picture suspended over the mantel piece, which exhibited the British officer in his regimentals.
His eye repeated the blessing which had before fallen from his lips, and the girl felt her cheeks glow, and her heart beat with a quicker pulsation, as he spoke his adieus.
Her hair, which was of a golden richness of color, was left, untortured, to fall in the natural ringlets of infancy, and it shaded a face which was glowing with the united charms of health, youth, and artlessness; her eyes spoke volumes, but her tongue was silent; her hands were interlocked before her, and, aided by her taper form, bending forward in an attitude of expectation, gave a loveliness and an interest to her appearance, that for a moment chained her lover in silence to the spot.
As he spoke, he deliberately drew a pistol from his belt, and leveled it at the black.
As he spoke, he turned his eyes on Frances with an expression that again thrilled to the heart of his mistress; she rose from her seat with burning cheeks, and said,-"All the attention that can with propriety be given to a stranger, will be cheerfully bestowed on your friend."
Many a sentinel, placed in the gorges of the mountains, spoke of a strange figure that had been seen gliding by them in the mists of the evening.
He spoke, but slowly, and with difficulty.
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