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As he spoke, the admiral opened the heavy door and, courteously signing to the Englishman to precede him, allowed Frobisher to pass out into the stone-flagged corridor.
Turning swiftly, she hurried on to the officer, who had courteously withdrawn a few yards distant. As he opened the door of the wagon, he handed her a loosely folded sheet of paper. "I promised to deliver your answer as soon as possible." By aid of the red glow, burning low in the western sky, she read: "Mr.
But I captained the Ramblers that season, so I remember it." Respect grew large in Mr. Thompson's eyes. Here were modesty and distinction equally mated. The picture of the shy student had gone from his memory. "If you like to come up to Etterick we might get up a match from the village," said Lewis courteously.
In the morning the Cavaliere asked Rendel and me which of us had seen the ghost, and I told him my story; then I asked him to grant me permission to sift the thing to the bottom; and he courteously gave the whole matter into my charge, promising that he would consent to anything.
"It is just a month ago that chance set us face to face one day when I rode alone in the green drive." "And thereafter?" "Once he came to the walled garden, adventuring the thousand chances of discovery. Yet how he managed to cross the stockade-line I know not, for I was frightened, and begged him to leave me. And this he did most courteously, only swearing that he would again return."
He courteously asked us how much warning we needed before the close of our several speeches. Mr. Post is no novice in debate and he looked much surprised when I told him not to warn me at all and that he would have no need of closing me with the gavel. He probably thought I had decided to use only part of the time allowed me.
He it was who prosecuted Garvin and lost his official head. His actual head he keeps on his shoulders by riding at the center of a bodyguard. I tell you these matters so that you may watch your words." "Shall we encounter open hostility at this place?" I inquired. Weighborne shook his head. "On the contrary, we shall be most courteously received. Politeness is highly esteemed hereabouts.
Silk, clad in white surplice and nervously turning the pages of the Office by the holy table, faced about also. Ruth was seen alighting, out there in the sunlight. She hitched the mare's bridle over a staple and came lightly stepping through the shadow of the porchway. Her lover walked down the aisle to meet her. He, too, stepped briskly, courteously.
"I am Captain Lockyer, of the 'Sophia," said the British officer. "I wish to see Captain Lafitte." "I am he," came a voice from the pirate bark. "Then this is for you," and Captain Lockyer handed Lafitte a bulky package. "Will you come ashore while I examine this?" asked Lafitte, courteously. "I offer you such humble entertainment as we poor mariners can afford."
To his invitation, most courteously urged, that I should come and share his supper "You've just come from the train, and you won't get back to your hotel for two hours, at least" I yielded a ready acceptance, for I was really very hungry: I forget whether I had eaten anything all day.
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