But recognizing an additional querulousness in his voice, she laid the book aside and patiently folded her hands in her lap.

" "Not at all, not at all," the younger clergyman answered, in a languid tone, with a kind of habitual half-querulousness which belonged to it,the vocal expression which we meet with now and then, and which says as plainly as so many words could say it, "I am a suffering individual.

I was about to tell her I had seen him decently buried,of course omitting descriptions of the how and where,when the grandmother, who had been watching us with the impatient querulousness of age, hobbled across the room to ask "what that 'are man was a-talkin' about.