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If one of the portraits in my chamber had spoken to me, I could not have been more surprised. Gualterio begged me to keep the matter secret, saying, that the appointment would be officially announced to me ere long. I went immediately and sought out Chamillart, reproaching him for not having apprised me of this good news.
Mr. Crewe was a little late. Important matters, he said, had detained him at the last moment, and he particularly enjoined Mrs. Pomfret's butler to listen carefully for the telephone, and twice during lunch it was announced that Mr. Crewe was wanted.
The three miles was soon covered by the returning eight scouts. "I can see smoke ahead!" announced Josh presently. "Yes, and there's the pond shining in the light of the sun," added Felix. "Isn't that our chum, Billy, waving his hands to us?" asked George. "Looks as if he wanted us to hurry up some. I wonder what's happened now?"
He was very fond of the phrase "a vale of tears." One day it was in Christmas week, when I was walking by the bazaar he called me into the butcher's shop, and not shaking hands with me, announced that he had to speak to me about something very important.
When they entered through the old Colonial portal of the Gantry home, he jerked off his English topcoat unaided, contemptuously spurning the assistance of the buff-and-yellow liveried footman. But as they were announced, he assumed what Lord James termed his "poker face," and entered beside his friend, with head well up and shoulders squared. "Good boy! Keep it up," murmured Lord James.
These amusements, with the miscellaneous conversation arising out of them, passed the time splendidly, until dinner was announced by Bailey junior in these terms: 'The wittles is up!
The babe lived, however, and grew up to manhood, and then, in fulfillment of the prediction announced by the oracle, he headed a rebellion against the nobles, deposed them from their power, and reigned in their stead. One of the worst and most reckless of the Greek tyrants of whom we have been speaking was Hippias of Athens.
When it was over, the judges examined and graded the lines and the scores were announced by Mr. Shrank, the foreman. The better scores prompted little flutters of restrained applause from the executives.
I suppose we distinguish one waiter from another much as we pick our hat from the rack. We could have plotted a murder safely before William. He never presumed to have any opinions of his own. When such was my mood he remained silent, and if I announced that something diverting had happened to me he laughed before I told him what it was.
And then he asked: "Is it the case that she is engaged to Sir Malcolm?" "Certainly." "You are sure?" Something in his voice seemed to make the lawyer reflect. "Is it called in question?" he asked. Carrington shook his head. "By nobody who has spoken to me on the subject. But I understand that it has not yet been announced." "No," said Simon.
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