His excellency , having mountedmounton the small of my right leg , advancedadvancedforwards up to my face , with about a dozen of his retinue ; and producingproducehis credentials under the signet royal , which he appliedapplyclose to my eyes , spokespeakabout ten minutes without any signs of anger , but with a kind of determinate resolution , often pointingpointforwards , which , as I afterwards foundfind, was towards the capital city , about half a mile distant ; whither it was agreedagreeby his majesty in council that I must be conveyed .
And now in the mere exaggeration of the prevailing character of these features , and of the expression they were wont to convey , lay so much of change that I doubteddoubtto whom I spokespeak.
Emma had gonegodownstairs to speakspeakwith a friend in the basement , and he waitedwaitfor her on the landing .
" Leave the hat , " he saidsay, speakingspeakvery distinctly through the white cloth .
Later , he had gonegodown to his mother 's room and had spokenspeakthus : " Ma , I 'm going to enlist . "
“ Any pretty girls up this way ? ” he inquiredinquirelanguidly , after a moment , fanningfana thin smoke-cloud from before his face while he spokespeak.
( and she triedtryto curtsey as she spokespeak-- fancy CURTSEYING as you ’re falling through the air !
Concerning that night 's ride , the man spokespeakmost eloquently for himself , in a little shed back of a saloon on the San Francisco water front .
Upon the afternoon of which I now speakspeak, in the midsummer of the year of grace 1621 , as I sat upon my doorstep , my long pipe between my teeth and my eyes upon the pallid stream below , my thoughtsthoughtwere busy with these matters , -- so busy that I did not see a horse and rider emergeemergefrom the dimness of the forest into the cleared space before my palisade , nor knew , until his voicevoicecamecomeup the bank , that my good friend , Master John Rolfe , was without and would speak to me .
He sat in the corner with his back to the window-blind and spokespeaknow , having eateneatand drunkdrunkand being comfortably warmedwarmthrough , with less aggressive brevity than before .
The voices stoppedstopat once , all but Dr. Livesey 's ; he wentgoon as before speakingspeakclear and kind and drawingdrawbriskly at his pipe between every word or two .
He did not look at the ladies as he spokespeak, but his voice was perplexed and sorrowful .
It was n't till after he had spokenspeakthat he became awareawareof how much there had been in him of response ; when the tone of her own rejoinderrejoinder, as well as the playplayof something more in her face -- something more , that is , than its apparently usual restless light -- seemed to notify him .
“ Now , Kitty , you may cough as much as you choose , ” saidsayMr. Bennet ; and , as he spokespeak, he leftleavethe room , fatigued with the rapturesraptureof his wife .
As the young woman spokespeak, he roserise, and advancingadvanceto the bed 's head , saidsay, with more kindness than might have been expected of him : ' Oh , you must not talk about dying yet . '
The writer spokespeakof acute bodily illness -- of a mental disorder which oppressed him -- and of an earnest desire to see me , as his best , and indeed his only personal friend , with a view of attempting , by the cheerfulness of my society , some alleviation of his malady .
" I can not bear to hearhearyou speakspeakso , uncle , " saidsayFlorence Linden , in irrepressible agitation .
I happened to speakspeakof that river to our last guide , a rather superior fellow with quick , bright eyes .
This view of Marner 's personality was not without another ground than his pale face and unexampled eyes ; for Jem Rodney , the mole-catcher , averredaverthat one evening as he was returningreturnhomeward , he sawseeSilas Marner leaning against a stile with a heavy bag on his back , instead of resting the bag on the stile as a man in his senses would have done ; and that , on comingcomeup to him , he sawseethat Marner 's eyes were set like a dead man 's , and he spokespeakto him , and shookshakehim , and his limbs were stiff , and his hands clutchedclutchthe bag as if they 'd been made of iron ; but just as he had mademakeup his mind that the weaver was dead , he camecomeall right again , like , as you might say , in the winking of an eye , and saidsay" Good-night " , and walkedwalkoff .