Voice
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"Would master kindly come here for an instant?" he said to me in an odd
voice.
And as I stared at this desolate wreckage, Captain Nemo told me in a solemn voice:"Commander La Pérouse set out on December 7, 1785, with his ships, the Compass and the Astrolabe.
It seemed obvious to me that this man didn't understand French, because I made several remarks in a loud
voice
that were bound to provoke him to some involuntary show of interest had he understood them; but he remained mute and emotionless.
"Oh, sir," he told me in a
voice
trembling with excitement, "I've never killed anything like that!"His whole being was concentrated in this last word.
I turned to Captain Nemo, and in an agitated voice:"A man!
I wasn't sure what to think, when a
voice
said to me:"Is that you, professor?"
Suddenly Conseil's
voice
startled me awake.
Look!" the Canadian exclaimed, his
voice
full of excitement.
"The South Pole!"Captain Nemo replied in a solemn voice, handing me the spyglass, which showed the orb of day cut into two exactly equal parts by the horizon.
The captain then broke into speech:"Gentlemen," he said in a calm voice, "there are two ways of dying under the conditions in which we're placed."
The Canadian and I sat him up; we massaged his contracted arms, and when he regained his five senses, that eternal classifier mumbled in a broken voice:"Class of cartilaginous fish, order Chondropterygia with fixed gills, suborder Selacia, family Rajiiforma, genus electric ray.""Yes, my friend," I answered, "it was an electric ray that put you in this deplorable state."
I wasn't sure what to think, but next to me I heard Captain Nemo's
voice
slowly say:"Originally this ship was christened the Marseillais.
His
voice
was no longer speaking, it was bellowing.
Then, dropping Ned and turning to the battleship, whose shells were showering around him:"O ship of an accursed nation, you know who I am!" he shouted in his powerful
voice.
Waking up, I saw Ned Land leaning over me, and I heard him tell me in a low voice:"We're going to escape!"
Then, turning to the class-master, he said to him in a low voice—"Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil whom I recommend to your care; he'll be in the second.
The new boy articulated in a stammering
voice
an unintelligible name.
The "new fellow" then took a supreme resolution, opened an inordinately large mouth, and shouted at the top of his
voice
as if calling someone in the word "Charbovari."
And, according to what she was saying, her
voice
was clear, sharp, or, on a sudden all languor, drawn out in modulations that ended almost in murmurs as she spoke to herself, now joyous, opening big naive eyes, then with her eyelids half closed, her look full of boredom, her thoughts wandering.
She knew by heart the love songs of the last century, and sang them in a low
voice
as she stitched away.
She let herself glide along with Lamartine meanderings, listened to harps on lakes, to all the songs of dying swans, to the falling of the leaves, the pure virgins ascending to heaven, and the
voice
of the Eternal discoursing down the valleys.
Madame Bovary was lavish of them; and the words "daughter" and "mother" were exchanged all day long, accompanied by little quiverings of the lips, each one uttering gentle words in a
voice
trembling with anger.
She was a woman of about forty, with fine shoulders, a hook nose, a drawling voice, and on this evening she wore over her brown hair a simple guipure fichu that fell in a point at the back.
She repeated it in a low voice, for the mere pleasure of it; it rang in her ears like a great cathedral bell; it shone before her eyes, even on the labels of her pomade-pots.
What a man!" she said in a low voice, biting her lips.
He went to the shops and brought back rolls of leather for the shoemaker, old iron for the farrier, a barrel of herrings for his mistress, caps from the milliner's, locks from the hair-dresser's and all along the road on his return journey he distributed his parcels, which he threw, standing upright on his seat and shouting at the top of his voice, over the enclosures of the yards.
She often begged him to read her the verses; Leon declaimed them in a languid voice, to which he carefully gave a dying fall in the love passages.
She thought him charming; she could not tear herself away from him; she recalled his other attitudes on other days, the words he had spoken, the sound of his voice, his whole person; and she repeated, pouting out her lips as if for a kiss—"Yes, charming!
"Ah!" said he quickly and in a low voice, "I shouldn't have to go far to find you some, rely on that."
She was left broken, breathless, inert, sobbing in a low voice, with flowing tears.
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