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Don't you go to the front yet a while, young man. We need the best we have in reserve." He glanced critically at Stephen. "You've had military training of some sort?" "He's a captain in the Halleck Guards, sir," said Mr. Brinsmade, generously, "and the best drillmaster we've had in this city. He's seen service, too, General."
He closed one eye and reviewed the whole matter critically. Finally he guessed that the Bishop could have the fresh horse if he bought and paid for it on the spot. The Bishop explained that he did not have the money about him. Corben believed that. The Bishop explained that he was the bishop of the diocese. Corben did not believe that.
She pinched it to a peak and set it jauntily on his auburn head, then stood off and surveyed him critically. "It's a dear" she announced. "Looks dear, too" he replied whimsically. "Must have cost the original owner a month's board. Whew! That's a bird of a hat, Donna girl. Thank you. It's as good a hat as I'll ever own."
He was always in the thickest of the crowd, jumped right into the worst of everything, and came safely out of it all. Pelle examined himself critically to find points of resemblance, and found them in his defence of Father Lasse the first summer, when he kicked a big boy, and in his relations with the mad bull, of which he was not in the least afraid. But in other points it failed.
"If you ask me, I say this piece is as good as that one o' his, 'Tell me not in mournful numbers; and consid'able clearer." "I never could fairly make out what 'mournful numbers' was," remarked Mr. Cobb critically. "Then I guess you never studied fractions!" flashed Rebecca.
In that case a skipper wants plenty of room to move about. Sometimes quick work is necessary, and " "I don't suppose that being a commodore will prevent my assisting in sailing the boat, will it?" asked Harriet smilingly. The skipper looked her over critically. "I reckon we can make a sailor of you. Know anything about sailing?" "No, sir." "Yeth, she doeth," interjected Grace.
However," he said, smiling grimly, and pulling his cape about him, "there are other kindly disposed people in the world besides fathers. There is an aunt, perhaps, or an uncle or two; and sometimes, even to-day, there is the chance Samaritan." Van Bibber picked up his high hat from the table, looked into it critically, and settled it on his head.
The soldier leaped from his bunk and gratefully proceeded to dress himself, Joe eyeing him critically as the trousers climbed up his long legs, and the sleeves of the jacket did their best to conceal his elbows. "What do I look like?" he inquired anxiously, as he finished. "Six foot an' a half o' misery," piped the shrill voice of Billy promptly, as he thrust his head in at the fo'c'sle.
"By the head of the Prophet, a most wonderful blow!" said the Soldan, critically and accurately examining the iron bar which had been cut asunder; and the blade of the sword was so well tempered as to exhibit not the least token of having suffered by the feat it had performed.
Unscrupulous little rascal, too, but made of good stuff." "Don't you think so?" Billy inquired presently as Dick did not answer. "Think what?" "That Betty's a queer sort of girl." Dick took his pipe out of his pocket and began stuffing it full of tobacco. When this was satisfactorily accomplished, he struck a match on his boot heel, and lit the mixture, drawing at it critically meanwhile.
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