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I'm sure he'll do it, if you ask him." "Good! Then I will. Is is he at home to-day?" "Yes, he's upstairs. I'll call him." Susan sprang to her feet with alacrity. "But, Susan, just a minute!" Miss Dorothy had put out a detaining hand. "Is is Mr. Keith here, too?" "Yes, both of 'em. Keith is in the settin'-room an' I'll call his father down. 'T won't take but jest a minute."
"Was yon the messenger?" said Ormond, singling out from the crowd who stood in the court-yard a tall dark-looking man, muffled in a large cloak, wearing a broad shadowy black beaver hat, with a long sword of the Spanish fashion the very Colonel, in short, whom Buckingham had despatched in quest of Christian, with the intention of detaining him in the country.
Would you be willing at all to entertain the hypothesis that my name is Edward Pinkhammer, and that I never saw you before in my life?" Before the man could reply a wailing cry came from the woman. She sprang past his detaining arm. "Elwyn!" she sobbed, and cast herself upon me, and clung tight. "Elwyn," she cried again, "don't break my heart. I am your wife call my name once just once.
Half a mile farther on Delancy, labouring along on his snow-shoes, suddenly halted, detaining Geraldine with a quick touch on the shoulder. "There's something in that clearing," he whispered. Miller had seen it, too; Duane motioned Rosalie forward to join Delancy, and, side by side, they crept ahead, keeping a clump of scrub hemlock between them and the edge of the clearing.
They made their way slowly and with difficulty down the long hall, Tessibel growing more and more conscious of the curious glances directed at them from all sides. When they reached the drawing room door, her agitation grew perceptibly, having noticed that Waldstricker was detaining Helen. Deforrest held her arm with an encouraging pressure. "Don't be afraid, dear," he whispered in her ear.
'No, no. He is going back he is not coming to her for some time. 'Then what is detaining her cruel, neglectful maid! 'No, no, Thomas; she is She could not come. 'How's that? Somehow the solemnity of these last moments of his gave him inquisitorial power, and the too cold wife could not conceal from him the flight which had taken place from King's-Hintock that night.
As I do not precisely agree in opinion with any gentleman who has spoken, I shall take the liberty of detaining the committee for a few moments while I offer to their attention some observations. I am highly gratified with the temper and ability with which the discussion has hitherto been conducted.
He was about to swagger past her when she shook off the detaining hand of McTee and ran to the Irishman. "Dan," she said eagerly, and laid a hand on his arm. "Come back, Kate," growled McTee. "You've promised me not to speak " "Did you promise him not to speak with me again?" broke in Harrigan. "I only meant " she began.
Thomas Braddock, detaining the officers on the opposite side of the ring, saw the strange figure and for a moment was near to losing his composure. Then he grasped the situation and exulted. He boldly escorted Blake and the town authorities to the dressing-tent, where he assisted in the search and the questioning.
Petito, laying a detaining hand upon Lord Colambre's whip, one end of which he unwittingly trusted within her reach, 'I and my lady had a little difference, which the best friends, you know, sometimes have; so my Lady Clonbrony was so condescending to give me up to my Lady Dashfort and I knew no more than the child unborn that her ladyship had it in contemplation to cross the seas.
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