Becky hesitating, Tom took silence for consent, and passed his arm about her waist and
whispered the tale ever so softly, with his mouth close to her ear.
'Do you call THAT a
whisper?' cried the poor King, jumping up and shaking himself.
'It's done in a minute,' said Sikes, in the same low
whisper.
'I have the happiness of knowing your father-in-law,'
whispered Mr.
"You are all the women in the world," I
whispered bending over her.
Audibly the elm-leaves
whispered Peaceful, pleasant melodies, Like the distant murmured music Of unquiet, lovely seas: While the winds were hushed in slumber In the fragrant flowers and trees.
One was dead, but the other was still conscious and had just sufficient vitality left after the coming of his fellows to
whisper that they had been treacherously shot by the younger white man who had been at the long-house where they had found Muda Saffir--then the fellow expired without having an opportunity to divulge the secret hiding place of the treasure, over the top of which his body lay.
From first to last"--and for the first time there seemed to be a faltering, something strained in his
whisper. He caught hold of my arm, but the ringing of the supper bell made me start.
Anna Mikhaylovna looked attentively at the sick man's eyes, trying to guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, then named Prince Vasili in an inquiring
whisper, then pointed to the quilt.
Thus addressing one another in
whispers, the three stepdaughters of Lady Winwood stood bewildered in their own drawing-room, helplessly confronting an object which appeared before them on the threshold of the door.
And when they had gone into the ship's dining-room and were having tea, Dab-Dab came up behind the Doctor's chair and
whispered.
I lay motionless, and, after what seemed a long time of waiting, a little far-away voice said in a cautious
whisper, "Irene!"