... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Saint Peter paused. But tell me the whole of it. The young man considered for a while, staring into nothing then he began to speak, telling the tale from the beginning, very orderly. She was not of my village, nor of my lord's people at all till he bought ...

... her lover. Which thing was a miracle due, perhaps, to the relics for he had been born before the meeting with the hero. To speak truth, in spite of much impassioned writing, the love-story leaves a cold, detached reader at its tragic close. It is artificial ...

... time. (Some times there 'd been quarrels, you know, and they wouldn't speak to each other at all.) Then there must have been a big bust-up, for one morning they weren't on speaking terms again, and Miss Smith was humming a lot to herself, which was a ...

... she jilted him, and when he hears afterwards that her health failed her he congratulates himself that he lost her. He can speak of a workhouse and a prison interior. But all is now well with him, for Mr. Wells has incited him George Meek to write this ...

... when he did it again that is, took an inexperienced, pretty young thing out to the attractive but serpent-ridden (morally speaking) Eden of Indian regimental life. And just when history looked like repeating itself in the most tragic way, the outraged ...

... at me as I write, sarcastically, vet with something of pity mingled with contempt. Its black lips are open, as if it would speak. Cursed slave that enslaved me. I would we had never met You took her from me you brought me her final Message, her last word ...

... little, showing a gleam of white teeth. It is I Paul, he said. Not Jacques. Renee sat quite still for a moment without speaking. You, Paul Verdean? She spoke slowly. I thought you were still at sea. The Sain! Joseph made the harbour on the top of ...