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I'll tell you about it later," he curtly replied, attacking the salad again. She was silenced though not satisfied, and dinner was resumed in almost painful silence and in general depression. Viola was especially troubled by the change in Morton's face, and with a desire to be of some comfort to him softly said: "Perhaps you would rather not go to the theatre to-night.
Her head whirled from the sudden calamity which had overwhelmed her; her thoughts were chaos. She hardly heard when Mr. Jackson said curtly, "You may go." As one in a dream she walked out of the office. Nyoda came out with her. "Of all things," said Mr. Wardwell to Mr. Jackson, when they were left alone, "to think that a girl should have done that thing." "It seems strange, too," mused Mr.
His driving was as rhythmical as music. They were so packed in that he could scarcely reach gear lever and hand-brake. He halted on a level, and curtly asked, "That trap-door in the back of the car convertible extra seat?" "Yes, but we almost never use it, and it's stuck. Can't get it open." "I'll open it all right! Got a big screwdriver? Want you sit back there. Need elbow room."
The man nodded at her curtly, as he would to another man; he made no answer; then with a slight flush his eye returned to her dress and figure; he lifted his hat and stood uncovered till she had passed and turned from him. His face, under the influence of this fluctuation of color, changed exceedingly, and improved in proportion as it changed. "Who is that glum fellow, Doctor?"
"We two then, Master Lambert," said Segrave with ever-growing excitement, "what say you? Double or quits?" And he pointed, with that same febrile movement of his, to the heap of gold standing on the table beside Lambert. "As you please," replied the latter quietly, as he pushed the entire pile forward. Segrave dealt, then turned up his card. "Ten!" he said curtly.
What do you mean?" asked Laramie curtly. "Isn't my word good as to who's in my shack?" "Jim!" Lefever held up a peacemaker's hand. "We thought maybe he might have come in since you rode away." "Well " Laramie cooled somewhat, "if it'll do you any good, I'll look inside and see." Van Horn sarcastically demurred: "Don't take the trouble, don't take the trouble, Jim."
Victor Durnovo was still at work superintending the discharge of the baggage and stores from the large trading-canoes. They heard the shouting and chattering before coming in sight of the camp, and one voice raised angrily above the others. "Is that Durnovo's voice?" asked Meredith. "Yes," answered his companion curtly. It was a new voice which Meredith had not heard before.
Placing himself in front of the learned men, he asked: "Rabbis, ought a man to do good on the Sabbath or not?" They did not know at first whether to honour this bold young man with an answer. But there is a precept in the law which declares that every inquirer must be answered, so one of them said curtly and roughly: "Of course a man should do good."
"No, I reckon not," was the reply, punctuated by a short laugh. "The Avenue seems to be depopulated." "So? I hadn't heard of anybody goin' away," said Caleb the literal. "Nor I," said Tom curtly; and the conversation paused until the iron-master had deliberately refilled and lighted his corn-cob.
"I don't often talk business at breakfast in my own house," said Dan Anderson. "Do you use tabasco with your frijoles?" "Oh, we'll get together, we'll get together," Barkley laughed, with an assumed cordiality which did not quite ring true. "Thank you," Dan Anderson remarked curtly; "you bring me joy this morning." He did not relish this sort of talk in the presence of Constance Ellsworth.
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