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Her face seemed to be trying to tell something which her mind would not choose to tell. He wondered what it was, this secret which he divined. "Come upstairs and we'll have a talk in my sitting-room." She looked at him narrowly, he thought, as they went together to the lift.
In this alone she had been an idealist, but she might have known that good men were a prey to the unworthy of the opposite sex. She glanced at Austen's face, and he smiled at her gently, as though he divined something of her thoughts. "If it isn't your fault, that you're not happy, then the matter's easily mended," she said. He shook his head at her, as though in reproof.
It belonged, as I divined, to the Proudfits of Friendship, and it was carrying Madame Proudfit and her daughter Clementina, after a day of shopping and visiting in the town.
His mind...he requires watching." "And how long is it since you made this discovery?" "One sees clearer perhaps when one is not quite happy." "Not happy! Then it's for him that you turn the night to tears?" Cornelia closed her lips. She divined that her betrayer must be close in his confidence. She went shortly after to Emilia, whose secret at once stood out bare to a kindled suspicion.
But from that expression he easily divined, that had it been otherwise, the Earl might have said nothing reproachful, but would not have been well satisfied. Wilton did not mistake the motives of the Earl: he knew him to be anything but a penurious man; and he had long seen and been aware of the motives on which that nobleman acted towards him.
She divined the illness of her darling, and knew that she was threatened with death. Two big tears painfully rose in her wan gray eyes, from which her troubles had worn both lashes and eyebrows, two pearls of anguish, forming within them and giving them a dreadful brightness; then each tear swelled and rolled down the withered cheek, but did not wet it.
On her side, she had quickly divined that Kria had fallen a victim to her charms, and, as he was younger than Ku-îsh, richer, and, moreover, a Malay, a man of a superior race, she was both pleased and flattered.
Who provides all our excitement?" Josephine instantly divined there was something amiss. "Consider," said she, "Monsieur Riviere would not wheel Dard all across the park for amusement." Rose assented; and in another minute, by a strange caprice of fate, those Edouard had come to intercept, quickened their pace to intercept him.
At that time I was under the conviction that she had not been a stranger to the return from the island of Elba. Doubtless the queen divined my thoughts, since it is hardly possible for me to hide my sentiments. My bearing and face betray me in spite of myself.
And she divined then, though she did not know why, that henceforth there was to be something new in her life, something she had never felt before, something good for her soul in the homely, the commonplace, the natural, and the wild.
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