Bulstrode, who spoke in a subdued tone, and had rather a sickly air.
Now, though they had hardly spoken to each other all the evening, yet when Celia put by her work, intending to go to bed, a proceeding in which she was always much the earlier, Dorothea, who was seated on a low stool, unable to occupy herself except in meditation, said, with the musical intonation which in moments of deep but quiet feeling made her speech like a fine bit of recitative— "Celia, dear, come and kiss me," holding her arms open as she spoke.
" She spoke with more energy than is expected of so young a lady, but Sir James had appealed to her.
" Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone, half caressing, half explanatory.
Although they now knew his name, the children never spoke of him by it—at any rate, when they were by themselves.
But the signalman seemed quite broken down, and the children had to pat him and thump him for quite a long time before he found his handkerchief—a red one with mauve and white horseshoes on it—and mopped his face and spoke.
All we can do, you and I and Daddy, is to be brave, and patient, and—" she spoke very softly—"to pray, Bobbie, dear.
" She skipped joyously as she spoke.
" The woman's face brightened as she spoke.
" The three spoke all at once.
Peter saw his red, clean-shaven face as he spoke.
Engineer," she spoke a little louder, but the Engine happened to speak at the same moment, and of course Roberta's soft little voice hadn't a chance.
" He spoke much more gently now, and Peter said:— "I didn't think it was stealing.
" Mother spoke rather less cheerfully than usual.
"I know it, mother, but they have something of a tail," spoke Buddy, "and maybe it will grow longer in time.
"If you please, kind sir," spoke Brighteyes, "we didn't know they were your trees.
"Don't be alarmed, my dear," spoke a soft voice.
They were Montmorency and Matilda, but, as the children didn't like those names, they always spoke of each other as "Buddy" and "Brighteyes," so I will do the same.
He spoke with the accent of New England, and there was about his demeanour a bloodless frigidity which made me ask myself why on earth he was busying himself with Charles Strickland.
" There was something immensely forcible in the way she spoke.