I spoke for five minutes to an audience of two thousand people, composed mostly of Southern and Northern whites.
The Mayor and several other city and state officials spoke before the committee.
Now I made as though I would depart, then, turning suddenly, I spoke once more, saying:--
All this while I had spoken to Umslopogaas in a feigned voice, my father, but now I spoke again and in my own voice, saying:--
Thus he spoke, and when each of them had marked his lot, and had thrown it into the helmet of Agamemnon son of Atreus, the people lifted their hands in prayer, and thus would one of them say as he looked into the vault of heaven, "Father Jove, grant that the lot fall on Ajax, or on the son of Tydeus, or upon the king of rich Mycene himself."
He poised his spear as he spoke, and hurled it from him.
Neither
spoke, yet both knew before they opened the closed door what they would find beyond.
Pressed by the throng against the high backs of the chairs, the orators
spoke one after another and sometimes two together.
"No,"replied Emmaquite confirmed by the depressed manner in which he still
spoke"I should like to take another turn.
He never spoke. He stood, in dead silence, looking long and anxiously at the beautiful Englishwoman.
"Someone was here and spoke to me." A faint light of recognition glimmered in his eyes.
The longer she spoke, the more disadvantageously she challenged comparison with the absent woman, whose name she so obstinately and so audaciously persisted in assuming as her own.
He spoke, in the warmth of his indignation, loud enough for Grace to hear him.
But we soon dropped that subject, and Sir Percival
spoke next, in the most unselfish terms, of his engagement with Laura.
She has called to me in her sleep before now, sir; as I have sat by, watching, I have seen her lips move, and have known, though no sound came from them, that she
spoke of me.
