Excerpt from Herself Ladies who soliloquize are rare, and pure English ladies rarer; and to the attentive listener the voice of this person - a tired little timbre it had, even when she was at her liveliest - might have been perceived to bear an accent: a lilt or song of a corner of that island which is least English of the three. A native of Kerry would have claimed the voice, yet stood in doubt; for the manner of other lands had overlaid it, and it was more a reminiscence than an actuality. Some of the expressive gesture ...
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Excerpt from Herself Ladies who soliloquize are rare, and pure English ladies rarer; and to the attentive listener the voice of this person - a tired little timbre it had, even when she was at her liveliest - might have been perceived to bear an accent: a lilt or song of a corner of that island which is least English of the three. A native of Kerry would have claimed the voice, yet stood in doubt; for the manner of other lands had overlaid it, and it was more a reminiscence than an actuality. Some of the expressive gesture of France went with it, and withal a faint American blurr upon the r's. But the whole speech had a humor ous decision which blent all into a character, quite at war with the fatigued indifference that hung on voice and utterance. Or so it seemed to a bearded Englishman of middle age who overheard. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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