'I see you're admiring my little box.' the Knight said in a friendly
tone. 'It's my own invention--to keep clothes and sandwiches in.
"Fie, for shame!" said aunt Glegg, in her loudest, severest
tone of reproof.
"Well, I despise you." If she had even said `I hate you' in a petulant or coquettish
tone, he would have laughed and rather liked it, but the grave, almost sad, accent in her voice made him open his eyes, and ask quickly...
She listened eagerly, and said her next words in a louder, firmer
tone.
"My friend," said Anna Mikhaylovna in gentle
tones, addressing the hall porter, I know Count Cyril Vladimirovich is very ill...
"Scarcely had these
tones sounded, everywhere there began tumult and sound, as if voices above and below the water.
`A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a
tone of the deepest contempt.
It was as if the
tones came from a church in the still forest; people looked thitherward, and felt their minds attuned most solemnly.
"What is the matter?" he said, in a gentle
tone of voice, "and who is it making this disturbance?"
So I will call you Monsieur George," she paused and then added, "I could never get old," in a matter-of-fact final
tone as one would remark, "I could never learn to swim," and I had the presence of mind to say in a
tone to match, "C'est evident, Madame." It was evident.
His deep voice dropped suddenly to a low and quiet
tone as he spoke the parting words.
"Who's there?" cried the learned man, in the gracious
tone of a famished dog, disturbed over his bone.
