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... But CEnone had relapsed into languid indifference, and did not respond. He sat watching her, and not speaking again until it should please her to speak, with an humble self-effacement that was the more eloquent from its contrast with the usual demeanour ...

Published: Saturday 06 January 1877
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 2382 | Page: 15 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

BUBBLE & SQUEAK

... WWLl squeak I SEE, said the wife, looking up from her newspaper, that a man who can fc speak eight languages has just married a -fa woman who can speak four. H'm, remarked the husband, that seems to be about the right handicap. AT a foreign conference ...

Published: Wednesday 31 March 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 271 | Page: 31 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

The Story of the Casars

... themselves, their in dividual lives, their characters, their sorrows, their joys, their trials, and their triumphs. I, so to speak, lived among them for two winters, spending day after day looking into their faces, comparing them and I felt as though I had ...

Published: Saturday 25 February 1893
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 413 | Page: 18 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

New Novels

... lie had illicit relations? Or that Sir Edward would lose her rather than speak the few words which would have cleared him from all guilt in the matter particularly as he does speak them later on, the circumstances being unchanged Perhaps it is too much ...

Published: Saturday 02 January 1875
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1084 | Page: 19 | Tags: Fiction/Narrative 

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 

PRINCESS KÁROLY'S LOVE-STORY

... Neither of us old, and yet neither of us very sorry that we shall have our throats cut in a day or so. Hush Do not speak of it, But I must speak. I am curious. I wonder how it will feel, if it will hurt much. Like your Queen Anne Bullen, I have a little neck ...

Published: Wednesday 25 September 1895
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1508 | 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 

THE DEAD HAND WINS

... had Cockney I was his best friend his old pardner. A second after he 'd dropped, I was kneeling at his side, begging him to speak. But he wouldn't. Then Dr. Frank, who 'd been standing at the bar when the gun went off, he got his hand over Cockney's heart ...

Published: Wednesday 02 March 1898
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 795 | Page: 18 | 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