At any rate, it gave him the encouragement that one usually receives from an attentive listener.

For short, he calls him "GARRY." Standing in front of the Hotel de Ville, talking to a group of eager listeners, with his arms wildly gesticulating and his nose contemptuously curling towards the empyrean, he asks: "Who is this GARRY?

She described Pap Himes and his boarding-house, aptly, deftly, and left it funny, though a sympathetic listener could feel the tragedy beneath.

The interested listeners were disappointed with the brevity of the conversation, and spoke guardedly and in cipher to each other after Pearl and Mrs. Paine had gone: "Somebody is away, see!

It soon appeared that he was more disposed to communicate information than to seek it; and I became a patient listener.

The secret listeners of the East.

Mrs. Everidge spoke wistfully, and Evadne, forced to be an unwilling listener to the conversation, felt her cheeks grow hot with indignation.

What objects, then, shall our stories serve beyond the important one of pleasing the little listeners?

To learn to speak it requires about as long as to learn to converse passably in French, Italian, or Spanish; and unless it be spoken well, it is exceedingly absurd to any appreciative listener.

He was happiest when he had intelligent listeners.

A word from him would have brought the whole affair to an end, for, as an involuntary listener, he had heard all that had transpired concerning the cannoneer.

She had been curious, aloof, then sympathetic; she had studied his face; she had been an eloquent-eyed listener to his discourse on wheat.

"You do me no more than justice," returned the pleased listener of this flattering and seemingly involuntary opinion"we are indeedindeed we are truly grateful; but had we not reason for the sacred obligations of gratitude, I think we could still be just.

" The anxious listeners within felt sure these were the dacoits and longed for the arrival of the police.

The interesting thing to us is that among the scholars who came from Constantinople, bringing with them numbers of manuscripts and systems of thought wholly new to the Florentines, was one Georgius Gemisthos, a Greek philosopher of much personal charm and comeliness, who talked a bland and beautiful Platonism that was extremely alluring not only to his youthful listeners but also to Cosimo himself.

Thus were thrown away, upon a solitary listener, midnight lectures which would have done honor to the class-rooms of Berlin or the Sorbonne.

He does not paint a finished picture, or play for a mere passive listener.

If you ever saw a crow with a king-bird after him, you will get an image of a dull speaker and a lively listener.

" Henry always agreed so completely with Gerard's talk, or at least so delighted in it, that he had little scope of opportunity to say much himself; and Gerard was too keen a talker to complain of a rapt young listener.

This he did in a manly frank way, that was far from being unpleasant to his gentle listener, whose inclinations, for a few minutes, blinded her to the resolutions already made on principle.

" "What?" said the amazed listener.

As she quieted under its influence, the disappointed listeners, now tip-toeing carefully from the room, heard her murmur in final appeal: "Cannot Adelaide spare one minute fromfrom her company downstairs, to wish me health and kiss me good night?

This laboured and characteristic profession of faith in the mate, though sufficiently intelligible to Wilder, was still a perfect enigma to his female listeners.

She was a most conscientious listener, giving you her mind and heart, as well as her magnetic eyes.

I became a mute listener.