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He hastened to the bedside and kissed her hand a little peek according to his custom. "You are ill?" "I have my migraine," she said. "You want Gerald?" "Yes," he said diffidently. "He had promised " "He has left me," Sophia interrupted him in her weak and fatigued voice. She closed her eyes as she uttered the words. "Left you?" He glanced round to be sure that the waiter had retired. "Quitted me!

"If he'd been a son of mine he would have got the stick," said Jorgen. "Aren't they the sort of people who are making ready for the millennium? We've got a few of their sort here," said Bjerregrav diffidently. "D'you mean the poor devils who believe in the watchmaker and his 'new time'? Yes, that may well be," said Jeppe contemptuously. "I have heard they are quite wicked enough for that.

"Lady Tyrrell, won't you give me your good wishes?" he asked, half diffidently. "For the examination yes, certainly," she replied. "It is safer not to look too far into your wishing-well." "And and will you give my my best regards to Le to Miss Vivian, and say I grieve for her cold, and trust to her to her good wishes " he uttered, quick and fast, holding her hand all the time.

"We also arranged a little exhibition of er old things," continued Sir Philip diffidently. "Armour, miniatures, some old jewels, and things like that. That also brought in quite a respectable sum for the Red Cross." "From the Heredith collection, I presume?" said Mr. Brimley.

Elsa was sitting as usual on the low chair close by the sick man. She looked up when he entered and all at once the blood rushed to her pale cheeks. "May I come in?" he asked diffidently. "If you like, Andor," she replied. He threw down his hat and then came to sit on the corner of the table in his favorite attitude and as close to Elsa as he dared.

There ain't a man in London as can brew a glass o' rum-punch like the Corp, though 'e 'as only got vun 'and. And now, Corporal Dick, afore ve begin, three steamers." "Ay, for sure, Jarsper!" said the Corporal; and opening a small corner cupboard he took thence three new pipes and a paper of tobacco. "Will you smoke, sir?" he inquired diffidently of Barnabas.

The principle has always been dimly perceived. In our time, biology enables us to work it out with scientific precision." Mr. Breakspeare betrayed a little uneasiness. "I regret," he said diffidently, "that I have had very little time to give to natural science. When we have floored Robb, I fully intend to apply myself to a study of all that kind of thing."

"Well, I'd kinda like to water them goats," the man observed diffidently. "They ain't had a drop sence early yest-day mornin'. You got water here, ain't yuh? An' they might graze around a mite whilst we're here. Travelin' like this, I try to kinda give 'em a chanct when we stop along the road. It's been an awful trip. We come clear from Wyoming. How far is it from here to San Jose, Californy?"

She did not leave him this time, but rode at his side in silence with a frown and little line of thought between her blue eyes. As they were nearing the store she said diffidently: “Mr. Hosmer, I wonder if it wouldn’t be best for you to put the mill in some one else’s charge and go away from Place-du-Bois.” “I believe you always speak with a purpose, Mrs.

"You Scots are hard in the head, but soft in the disposition. Come, Chief shall they walk the plank?" "Good deescipline," assented the Chief, "but it would leave us a bit shorthanded." "True," said the Captain gloomily. "I was thinkin'," remarked the Chief diffidently one hates to think before the Captain; that's always supposed to be his job. "Yes?"