Here the loud tones of his voice sank into tenderness.

"An' anyhow," in a more gentle tone,the gently positive tone which she had acquired through forty years of living with Abraham,"we

With a very thoughtful, serious expression on her little face, the child turned towards her doll, embraced it with the emotional fervour of a last adieu, then carried it to her grandfather, saying, in sweet, resigned tones: "Take it, grandpapa!

As the lookout, crestfallen and surly, went below, Barnett said in subdued tones: "Upon my word, I shouldn't be surprised if the man were right.

" "Then he was guilty," said Dotty, in a solemn tone.

"I am thinking of my brother," she replied, in a tone so friendly that it neutralized the rather damping effect of the words.

" "Clearly," Gifford assented in a calm tone.

" His firm tone and manner baffled equivocation.

" A crowd of idlers, attracted by the angry tones of the master's voice, had begun to collect in the passage, and the captain flushed to the roots of his hair at being thus taken to task in public.

you say, in a light tone, to cheer him up.

I will now.' Captain Willis lowered his voice to a confidential tone and said: 'Do you know, what I always say islive and let live and let it go at that; what?' 'That's a dark saying,' said Edith. 'Have a burnt almond,' said Captain Willis inconsequently, as though it would help her to understand.

The warm firelight danced upon the walls; the women talked in cheerful tones.

Il va bien?" always coming closer to me, so that I was edging back against the wall, with his hard, bright little eyes fixed on mine, and always the same sharp, jerky tone.

Watch him as he awakens the echoes of the quarter by repeating in the most melancholy tones Ali's famous gift of his sons to the beggars of the Hegira or some other great tradition of the generosity of Ali, set to verse for the special behoof of his brotherhood by some needy poetaster like the famous Nazir of Agra.

In his harshest tones he rapped out at the Sergeant, "My knife!

"Why?" "Because there is danger here," he answered in the same low earnest tone.

That sad tone of thine, Olinda, has almost Made me repent of my promise; but come, what is't? Oli.

His presence was commanding; his voice was singularly strong and clear, and had peculiar tones and shades in it which gave indescribable meaning to passages of anger, of pity, or of contempt.

The legates were welcomed by the Emperor, but they unwisely adopted a lofty tone toward the haughty Patriarch, who thenceforward avoided all communication with them, declaring that on a matter which so seriously affected the whole Eastern Church he could take no steps without consulting the other patriarchs.

"I see you have a photograph of Sir Horace Fewbanks there," he said, in what he intended to be an easy conversational tone, waving his hand towards the mantelpiece.

" The appeal of money and the conviction that the police would use less considerate methods if Crewe passed him over to them abolished Taylor's scruples about discussing a fare, and it was in a much less surly tone that he responded: "I didn't notice anything strange about him when he called me off the rank, but I did afterwards.

" He disappeared behind the curtain and could be heard in a kindly, jovial tone: "There, sonny, keep kivered; the lady is coming to bring you something better than the doctor's gruel, so lie still.

"I will just confer with my men who are on the premises before I leave," he said to Morriston in a quiet authoritative tone.

He then bowed low before it, and in an altered tone said: "My children, settle your quarrel and live peaceably together.

"First of all," he proceeded, falling back to his dry, lawyer-like tone, "I have been to see the medical man who was summoned to look at the body, Dr. Page.