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I own that I was half amused and half awed by the condescending bow with which he greeted my offhand nod and the affable way in which he remarked: "You are making use of your prerogatives as a member of the police, I see." The words came as easily from his lips as if his practice in affability had been of the very longest.
Hugh noticed with a thrill of excitement that among them were tiger and leopard skins. Directly opposite the entrance stood a rough and peculiarly hewn stone, resembling in a general way the form of a man, colossal, diabolical. "An idol," whispered Lady Tennys in awed tones. "Perhaps it would be wisdom on our part to kneel before the thing," said Hugh calculatingly.
Why people should travel here, or why they should be excited about it, we could not see; we could not overcome a feeling of the unreality of the whole thing; but yet we humbly knew that we had no right to be otherwise than awed by the extraordinary intercolonial railway enterprise and by the new life which it is infusing into the Provinces.
As she went Death entered and found on its victim's face a changeless, rapturous smile. So "Francesca" was played a second time and, as the papers said next morning, with even more perfect art and amid more awed enthusiasm than on the first night.
"you'd better have no nonsense with me, I promise you, or " and he tapped with the fore finger of his right hand upon the butt of one of them, with an expression that could not be misunderstood. The woodsman seemed little awed by this demonstration.
I'd hate to be a professor, and not know that it has to be in the middle of a new bridge, at midnight, over running water, in the moonlight. Now you keep still and be nice; I want to see who's going to get married. Here is Grace Noir, and here is Fran..." "And where am I?" asked Abbott, in an awed voice, as he bent down. Fran wouldn't tell him. He bent lower. "Oh, I see, I see!" he cried.
If you will find out and promise not to tell anyone else, and will come to me with the name, then I will give you a five-dollar gold piece." Dinney's breath was fairly taken away. He stood there on the sidewalk stock still, looking into the face of the girl before him. At last he said in an awed voice: "Honest?" "Honest," answered Gloria. The boy drew a long breath. Five dollars!
"Now, to-morrow," he thought, "I'll look around myself," and with renewed hope he lifted his eyes from the ground. On the morrow Carrie reported promptly and was given a place in the line. She saw a large, empty, shadowy play-house, still redolent of the perfumes and blazonry of the night, and notable for its rich, oriental appearance. The wonder of it awed and delighted her.
"It means beloved wife" "Then I like it. But I shall like the others one of the others best." "My wife." "That that makes me happiest, Roger. Your wife. Oh, it is the sweetest word in the world, that and " He felt her warm face hide itself softly against his neck. "Mother," he added. "Yes Mother," she repeated after him in an awed little voice.
Vina covered her face, but made no sound. "She will take the little one," said the voice above them. Both women turned their eyes to Bedient. Mary McCullom smiled shyly. "I remember David Cairns," she said, in an awed tone. "This is not " "No, dear, but it is enough. I will take your baby."
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