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Against Miss Pett there appears to have been no suspicion in Woking at that time and for the matter of that," concluded Mr. Stobb drily, "I don't know that there is now." "You have some yourself?" suggested Brereton. "I went into things further," answered Mr. Stobb, with the ghost of a wink. "I found out how things were left by Stilman.
May we know?" "Madam," said Hankeford drily, "you may look for what you shall find, and you may know so much as you be told." "We may bid farewell, trow?" "So it lie not over too much time." "Well! needs must, Nym," said Constance, turning to the boy who had so nearly worn the crown of England. "And after all, belike, it shall be worser for me than thee."
But up to last Monday, if I remember correctly," he added drily, "it was that showy young Philadelphia crowd that was absorbing the larger part of your valuable attention? Eh? Wasn't it?" "What in thunder are you driving at?" snapped the Younger Man. "What are you trying to string me about, anyway? What's the harm if I did say that I wished to glory I'd never come to this blasted hotel?
"You underrate yourself, young man," he said drily, "or your college professors have wandered from the truth. Still, your surprise is natural, I admit. I will explain a little further. Our choice is more limited than you might think. At least fifty names were proposed, all of them of young men of the highest character.
The carrier remarked drily that he thought that was only natural, and turned his attention to the more congenial task of passing a cart of hay; it was a matter of some difficulty, for the road was narrow, and there was a ditch on either hand. "I perceive," began Mr. Finsbury, when they had successfully passed the cart, "that you hold your reins with one hand; you should employ two."
Stuyvesant went in search of this new benefactor when he heard of it. "There was really no necessity, sir," said he, "though I fully appreciate your kindness. The company will doubtless reimburse me for any such outlay." "If they will reimburse you, my young friend," said the veteran traveller drily, "they'll reimburse me.
Impossible to refuse: and with a vexed word of apology to Laura he went out. "Dear me, what an opulent lady!" said Laura with lifted eyebrows. "Who's your friend, Lulu?" Lucian drily named her. "Queen's Gate, and Sundays at the Metropole. They're shipping people, which is where the diamond ta-ra-ras come from. Oh yes, there's a husband, quite a nice fellow, crocked in the Flying Corps.
"If all the dangers you appear to apprehend existed in reality, the passage would not be made daily or even hourly, in safety. You have often, Madam, come from the Carolinas by sea, in company with Admiral de Lacey?" "Never," the widow promptly and a little drily remarked. "The water has not agreed with my constitution, and I have never neglected to journey by land.
"I am not the Frenchman," I answered deliberately, vainly hoping his watchful eyes might wander about the lodge long enough to yield me chance for a spring at his throat, "though I was one of his party. I only came here to bring comfort to this poor girl." "No doubt she needs it," he replied drily, "and your way is surely a good one.
"I'll contrive that we shall be in the best part of the hunt." "That will be close to the sultan, of course?" Ali's dark eyes were raised inquiringly to the speaker's face, but seeing that this was not meant sarcastically, he said drily, "No; I shall arrange to be as far away from the sultan's elephant as I can." Bob looked at him keenly. "What, isn't he fond of tigers?" he said sharply.
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