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PURE NONSENSE

... mind and spoke instead. We 're almost alone, do you mean she suggested brightly. We are, quite, 1 corrected. Aunt was out, speaking to the cook something urgent, anyhow. You, I began allegoric-ally, are something in a shop-window. Something nice, insisted ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1907
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 658 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

AT REHEARSAL

... patient and to come as nearly as possible to speaking the line exactly as the playwright spoke it. Here comes the cue, said the playwright, more politely than ever. Remember now. Be careful. Speak the line as I speak it. Just like this Good-morning, Mr. Slopdash ...

Published: Wednesday 01 April 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1574 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

STORIES OF THE MOMENT: A Pawky Reply

... round Hobart. He wore a peculiar cap surmounted on top with an unusual-looking tassel. Becom ing lost and not being able to speak a word of English the poor fellow jumped into a cab to get back to the dock side. But cabby, not understanding what was said ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1907
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 534 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

LOVE WITHOUT WORDS

... encountered him. Lord Henry answered direct questions, sometimes smiled without mirth, and when he could not be bothered to speak at all, nodded his head with grudging affability. But he was bored with them all, bored to the limits of his patience, and ...

Published: Wednesday 27 December 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1766 | Page: 14 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

TWO MINUTES' SILENCE: A Short Story

... and glorious game of give and take? The two minutes were over, the maroons told them that. It was permitted to speak. But no one did speak. Dick and Anne looked at each other. Then, impulsively, he held out his arms. She almost fell into them, weeping ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1922
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1424 | Page: 22 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A CURATE'S WOOING: A COMPLETE STORY

... freshly ordained grave, serious, thoughtful. Lady Owen speaks to me a good deal about her boy it surprises m how comparatively little mothers know o; their sons. However, I am sympathetic and speak winningly of Jack. I have certainly made an impression ...

Published: Wednesday 11 September 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2678 | Page: 42 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

A FATAL GUST: A COMPLETE STORY

... don't. Before I came I am told that he seemed to have taken a fancy to a Miss Smith who is staying here, but now he scarcely speaks to her. She is a quiet, insig nificant little person, and I need hardly say that I don't fear her as a rival. More to morrow ...

Published: Wednesday 30 October 1901
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 2256 | Page: 40 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

DIAPHRAGM WINS BLINDFOLD

... other box contains a speaking-tube and a hearing-tube. Now, then, open that bar at the right-hand end of the machine slide that cylinder, bevelled end first, on to the metal tube shut the bar; wind the thing up. Now you stick the speaking-tube into its socket ...

Published: Wednesday 22 May 1901
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3992 | Page: 32 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

TWO MINUTES' SILENCE: A Short Story

... and glorious game of give and take? The two minutes were over, the maroons told them that. It was permitted to speak. But no one did speak. Dick and Anne looked at each other. Then, impulsively, he held out his arms. She almost fell into them, weeping ...

Published: Saturday 07 January 1922
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1424 | Page: 22 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

BUBBLE and SQUEAK

... heckler and asked Are you the man from Tass Insisting that he had no connection with the Soviet news agency, the man said I speak for the Lublin Government. Oh, I see, the delegate dismissed him, Demi-Tass. ...

Published: Wednesday 06 November 1946
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 289 | Page: 23 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

ADAM AND EVE

... any other fellow interfering. It doesn't matter to you, she said, because I 'm not to speak to you in future, mother says. Well, I told her, you're speaking to me now, anyhow. If you don't want your mother to see, you 'd better come this side of ...

Published: Wednesday 21 March 1906
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3291 | Page: 24 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

TYPES OF MODERN SOCIETY: A Series of Satirical Portraits of London Types.; V.--The Ever Hopeful Spinster

... a pauper, his real heart was revealing itself. She was too flooded with emotion to speak. Besides, she recollected how absurdly her voice cracked when she tried to speak in moments so emotional as these. I will go away now, he said, and will call again ...

Published: Saturday 20 December 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1305 | Page: 28 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative