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Struck forcibly by a coincidence suggesting something quite different from spiritual interference, I allowed the book to open in my hand, which it did at this evidently frequently conned passage: A book was in my hand and a strong light was shining on it and on me from a lamp on a near-by table.
"Very well, Scratton, the little girl cannot concern me," replied the old lawyer; "ask him to walk in;" and he again conned over the brief, not choosing to lose the minute which might elapse before he was again to be interrupted. The door was reopened, and Edward Forster, with Amber holding him by the hand, entered the room. "Your servant, sir. Scratton, a chair two chairs, Scratton.
He contrived to weigh the starboard or lee anchor, after very many fruitless attempts to do so on account of the heavy surges; but as it was found impossible to purchase the weather one, it was slipped, and the schooner wore round under her jib in a quarter less two fathoms. A sharp-sighted seaman stood on the fore-yard, from whence he conned the vessel, the lead kept going as before.
Our chasseurs, who had their guns, eagerly conned over the traces of ibex and hyenas, and the earths, as well as the large round footprints, of un leopard; but none of the larger animals were seen.
M. des Amis smiled approvingly. Undoubtedly the young man had a good address, and a certain readiness of wit, it would appear. He ran a critical eye over his physical points. "What is your name?" he asked. Andre-Louis hesitated a moment. "Andre-Louis," he said. The dark, keen eyes conned him more searchingly. "Well? Andre-Louis what?" "Just Andre-Louis. Louis is my surname." "Oh! An odd surname.
I am at Strasburg, with the Kaisar and the Archduke, and am not here till we ride in, in purple and in pall by the time the good folk have hung out their arras, and donned their gold chains, and conned their speeches, and mounted their mules." "Well that their speeches are not over the lykewake of his kingly kaisarly highness," gravely returned Sir Kasimir. "Ha! Thou sawest?
It taught him anew the lesson which already he had conned again and again, the lesson that his bitterest plaint fell on no one else's ears with half the compelling fervor with which it reached his own, that his cry for help came beaten back to the one person who could help him, that was himself. But at least, there was some relief in having made his cry.
If, for instance, at the convivial hour of dinner, when men are not usually intent upon grammatical or mathematical niceties, an Irish gentleman desires him "who rules the roast," to cut the sirloin of beef horizontally downwards, let the mistake immediately be set down in our note-books, and conned over, and got by heart; and let it be repeated to all eternity as a bull.
But the more keenly interested he grew, the more indifferent he made himself appear, slouching low and lower in his chair, his eyes listless and half closed his look one of the most pronounced apathy: the while he conned the circumstances, physical as well as psychical, with the narrowest attention.
While Brooks was reciting, it was easy for Brown, sitting next, to open his book, and calculating narrowly the parallax, to hold it concealed below the rail, while he diligently conned the page following. In his turn he rose well-primed, and spouted glibly, and so on down the class. Rumour went that our childlike professor declared he had never known anything like it.