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"Oh, I now what you want," said Mrs. Smith; "you want references." "Them's it," said Mrs. Bell, with great relief. "Well," said Mrs. Smith, "that is easy. I know EVERYBODY in New York." She thought a moment. "There's Mr. Murray, of MURRAY'S MAGAZINE," she suggested, mentioning her friend of the great monthly magazine. "Guess we never heard of that," said Mrs. Bell doubtfully.
"But, Eliot," said the Little Colonel, still laughing, "you know we don't have wild beasts in these woods nowadays. There hasn't been any for yeahs and yeahs." But Eliot shook her head doubtfully, and when the boys came up with a banjo and French harp to put the bear through his performances, she watched the dancing at a respectful distance.
We can perceive them doubtfully feeling for a formula, fumbling in the dark, for want of the model which they themselves were to aid in establishing and which every novice nowadays has ready to his hand, even tho he may lack the temperament to profit by what is set before him.
"Only sewing and cutting out and cooking and such like, and not lessons?" Bess Thompson asked doubtfully. "Not reg'lar lessons I mean. She'll read out while the girls work, and perhaps they will read out by turns; not lessons, you know, but stories and tales, and travels, and that kind o' book. What dost think o't?"
"No," answered Bessie, doubtfully, remembering her own way of conveying to Lena the means of rescuing Percy, "no I do not like anonymousity very much; but I suppose there are times when one has to do it."
On the contrary, if it comes to that, he'd ask you what Herr Max thought about the future of trades unions and the socialist movement in Germany, and he'd advise you to turn it into a column and a half of copy, with a large type sensational heading, "A Communistic Leader Interviewed. From our Special Correspondent." 'But it's such a very useless, unsocialistic trade, Ernest answered doubtfully.
'Nothing of the sort, Daddy; there were no passages. But Miss Lucy's done me a real friendly act, and I'd do the same for her any day. Dora had sat down to her silks again. As David spoke she bent closely over them, as though the lamp-light puzzled her usually quick perception of shade and quality. As for Daddy, he eyed the lad doubtfully.
But I'm going to learn, Tim," added Cameron. "You hear me, I am going to learn to do a man's work. If I can," he added doubtfully. "Oh, shucks!" replied Tim, "you bet yeh can, and I'll show yeh," with which mutual determination they turned in at the gate of the Haley farm, which was to be the scene of Cameron's first attempt to do a man's work and to fill a man's place in the world.
The man's face beamed. "My dear, it's the very thing! We'll take two they'll be company for each other; only" he looked doubtfully at the stout little woman opposite "the worst of it will come on you, Mary. Of course Hannah can manage the work part, I suppose, but the noise well, we 'll ask for quiet ones," he finished, with an air that indicated an entirely satisfactory solution of the problem.
"Tim is in prison," said Pamela, "It's no use us going back to meet him. I know he's in prison." "Then what can us do?" repeated Duke. "Us must go home and ask Grandpapa to get poor Tim out of prison," said Pamela. "But, sister, how can us go home? I don't know the way, do you?" Pamela looked about her doubtfully. "P'raps it isn't so very far," she said.
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