He raised not his head, but in a smothered voice he faltered:-

Shutting the door, he approached me, and said, in a smothered voice-

When her mother discovered her she exclaimed, in a half- smothered voice, Why, Em!

Just then he heard voices-smotheredvoices-nota yard away and apparently below the ground.

After a while he continued in a smothered voice: She isn't a wicked princess.

This ill-omened signal was undeniably followed by smothered voices.

He said afterward that he thought he heard the sound of scuffling and smothered voices outside.

After a few minutes of harrowing silence, she said in a smothered voice, 'Papa returns to-morrow.'

They listened, and smothered voices, those of the watch, mingled with low laughter, were quite audible.

A tear appeared in the eyes of the unfortunate man, and he said in a half- smothered voice,-

Suddenly a little smothered voice chimed in-

The frightened mother tried to hush her in a smothered voice, that I feared would betray her excitement.

'Go back to your place,' she cried, in a smothered voice.

A smothered voice within her said: "Why not?"

Then she heard Luretta's half- smothered voice say: "Do you s'pose our rabbits did find their mother?"

In the beautiful eyes the knight read a vague feeling of filial piety, and spoke in a smothered voice.