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When breakfast was over, and Uncle Geoffrey busily engrossed with his paper, I used to steal into the kitchen and have a long confab with Deborah, and then Jack and I made our bed and dusted our room to save Martha, and by that time I was ready to start to the Cedars; but not until I had convoyed Jack to Miss Martin's, and left her and her books safely at the door.
Farnham had been well enough in Denver, but I did not know whether I should care to pass in his society a whole evening, which I had meant to be one of solitary enjoyment. However, he had left me nothing else to say, and I responded with what alacrity I could, little dreaming that my whole future was hanging on my words, and the result of my confab with the man in the box-office.
'It's a plan with a piece left out, and it isn't finished till it's putted in. Curly must be in our plan, father dear. 'He may be in yours, but not in Lady Isobel's, I think, said Mr. Allonby. 'We'll make a confab with Lady Is'bel about him when we get to her house, suggested True. 'I believe she'll find a way to have him. Bobby cheered up at once. 'I believe she will. We'll ask her.
You know the sort of chap I mean, cap'n?" "I do," said Stump. "Reg'lar stage Arabs, they are. Sort of Frenchified, with clipped whiskers." "But please tell me what happened," cried Irene breathlessly. "Well, miss, there ain't much to tell. They had a serious confab for five minutes, an' then she tells me she's goin' ashore.
For one thing, we thought there was a chance the rebels could be persuaded to exchange father for Von Arnheim and Morales. Stone might know how important those two worthies are considered by the rebels." "Can't I listen in on this confab?" Frank asked, plaintively. "Or must I continue to mount guard here?
From the stairway she could hear Molly's voice comforting the Architect's wife as they helped her down from the nursery to Maman's room, "Sure, they's no need to worry. Take a peep through the door at Miss Felice. She's just knitting whilst they confab. Sure wid a couple o' hundred papers alyin' there they couldn't get through in no hurry now, could they?"
He locked a little warm in the face; but his white shooting coat did not seem less affected by the state of the weather than the doctor's temper. Mrs. Gary and Mrs. Fish he found sunk in somnolency at the foot of the tree where they had been talking. The young ladies were sitting by the emptied hampers, deep in confab.
A short confab between the Captain and Mr Howard ensued upon the communication of this bit of information; then the skipper hailed: "How do they bear, now, Mr Delamere? Do they seem to be drawing out athwart our hawse at all?" "They bear about two and a half points on our lee-bow, at this moment, sir," I replied.
Expert interviewers prepare themselves both for their topic and their man before they go into a confab a practice which should be followed to some extent by every writer who sets out to interview an editor about a manuscript. What you have to offer should be prepared to suit the needs of the editor to whom the contribution is addressed.
"But everybody is so sweet to her and it is delightful to see her with her own family their pride and tenderness for her, and her devotion to them. "Mrs. Cardross asked me to-day what I thought might be the effect on Shiela if you came. And, dear, I could not answer. Mr. Cardross joined us, divining the subject of our furtive confab in the patio, and he seemed to think that you ought to come.
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