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Decoud, interrupting himself, looked at Mrs. Gould curiously. "Upon the whole," he continued, "I suppose he expects something to his advantage from it. You mustn't forget that he does not exercise his extraordinary power over the lower classes without a certain amount of personal risk and without a great profusion in spending his money.
As fast as you please; hang her that fears the conjuring knot for me: But what will our Fathers say mine who expects me to be the Governor's Lady; and yours, who designs Isabella for a Daughter-in-Law? Ant.
"Go uptown after school this afternoon, please, Rosemary?" "Aunt Trudy expects me home," said Rosemary doubtfully. "For goodness sake, do you have to go straight home from school every day?" demanded Nina fretfully. "Why any one would think you were Shirley's age! Can't Sarah tell your aunt you won't be home?" "I suppose she could," admitted Rosemary. "All right, Nina, I'll go with you."
"A passion far deeper than I should ever have expected this dreamer to feel has taken possession of him. And if the Queen should now return perhaps less successful than we desire if she looks to those from whom she still expects pleasure, satisfaction, lofty deeds, and learns what has befallen the boy for what does not that sun-bright intellect learn and perceive?
We've been going beneath the surface of things a little. Collie expects to go even deeper, so he tells me." Collie walked slowly toward the bunk-house. Halfway there he took Overland's check from the letter and studied it. He put it back into his pocket. As he passed the corrals, Apache nickered in a friendly way. "Haven't got a thing for you," said Collie. "Not a bite.
She expects never to see us again. Now, he comes to-morrow by the morning boat, she said. What did that mean? Boat from where? 'I know. From Norddeich on the mainland opposite. There's a railway there from Norden, and a steam ferry crosses to the island. 'At what time? 'Your Bradshaw will tell us here it is: "Winter Service, 8.30 a.m., due at 9.5." 'Let's get away at once.
Grasslough looked at the man he addressed as one does look when one expects an answer. Mr Lupton, with whom Grasslough was dining, also sat expectant. Dolly and Nidderdale were both silent. It was the fear of this that had kept Sir Felix away from the club. Grasslough, as he had told himself, was just the fellow to ask such a question, ill-natured, insolent, and obtrusive.
But the world of these English is too monstrously stupid in what it expects, for any of its extravagances to be followed by interjections. All the while he was trimming and rolling a field of armistice at Steignton, where they could discuss the terms he had a right to dictate, having yielded so far.
People sigh and moan over the uncertainty of life, but that is ungrateful, for there are happy surprises as well as sad, and all sorts of pleasant things cropping up which one never expects. And it ought to go on growing more and more beautiful as we grow older, and can appreciate and understand." "Yes," sighed Eunice softly.
In a private citizen, our judgment seldom expects an accurate scrutiny into his fortune and expense; and in a steward of the public treasure, frugality is always a virtue, and the increase of taxes too often an indispensable duty.
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