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"I hope you've not been waiting long?" George's heart was thundering against his ribs. He could scarcely speak. He contrived to emit a No. "I didn't think at first I could get away. I had to . . ." She broke off with a cry. The rat, fond of exercise like all rats, had made another of its excitable sprints across the floor. A hand clutched nervously at George's arm, found it and held it.
American Match might have pulled through and the city been have spared the danger which now confronts it if Mr. Hull and Mr. Stackpole had not made the mistake of going to this man." Mr. Arneel paused, and Mr. Norrie Simms, more excitable than most by temperament, chose to exclaim, bitterly: "The wrecker!" A stir of interest passed over the others accompanied by murmurs of disapproval.
"I know all about it," continued the new ally, "and then you filled your excitable mind with thoughts of revenge eh?" "Yes," I admitted, and looked down at the clean white sheet. "And off you go on your midnight perambulations the cold wakes you up and there's the devil to pay and the old doctor to pay! One guinea, please. And now I'm off."
But the briefless young lawyer in the napless hat and thread-bare coat never accepted one of these invitations, for the very simple reason that he had no evening dress in which to appear. Under these circumstances, where any other young girl might have grown languid and sorrowful, Sybil became excitable and violent.
He could hold a hundred difficult balls in succession, but when a critical point came, he 'd let go of even a dewdrop. He 'd have to send him out in the field and bring in Jones to first base. Only Jones was so excitable. He could hold any kind of a ball, no matter how critical the play was, but there was no telling what he would do with the ball after he got it. Joe came to himself with a start.
We must now go back to our other hero, or, rather, to another of our heroes. Arthur Wilkinson is our melancholy love-lorn tenor, George Bertram our eager, excitable barytone, and Mr. Harcourt Henry Harcourt our bass, wide awake to the world's good things, impervious to sentimentality, and not over-scrupulous as is always the case with your true deep-mouthed opera bass.
First there had been great annoyance on Nani's part on learning that the book was being prosecuted, for he feared lest its excitable author might be prompted to some dangerous revolt; then plans had at once been formed, information had been collected concerning this young priest who seemed so capable of schism, he had been urged to come to Rome, invited to stay in an ancient mansion whose very walls would chill and enlighten him.
"I wonder what Harry Gilbert meant when he said some of them were planning another surprise nearly as thrilling as the one they sprung last night," said Azalia Atwood, with characteristic excitable expectation. "He addressed himself to you, Marion, when he said it; and he's a close friend of your cousin, Clifford Long.
"He keeps on about his match! I can't stand these excitable people! Instead of looking for matches, you had better examine the bed!" On inspecting the bed, Dyukovsky reported: "There are no stains of blood or of anything else. . . . Nor are there any fresh rents. On the pillow there are traces of teeth.
The big tusker Bisgaum arrived, and giving my Paradox gun to my trustworthy shikari Kerim Bux, he mounted the pad of that excitable beast to carry out my orders, "to follow the blood until he should find the tiger, after which he was to return to us."
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