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They knew well enough, by this time, the kind of thing to expect from him, the turn of phrase, the rise and fall of the voice, the pause dramatic, the whisper expostulatory, the thrust imperative, the smile seductive. He had often been told, as a curate, that he was a wonderful preacher. His round jolly face, his beaming smile, a certain dramatic gift, had helped him.
"It's of no consequence which!" murmured Cecil, with an expostulatory wave of his cigar. "We're not even asked whether we like to come into the world; we can't expect to be asked what we like to be called in it. Good-day to you, sir."
They paced the centre-alley for nearly an hour, talking earnestly: he looking grave, yet restless; she wearing an amazed, expostulatory, dissuasive air. I wondered what was under discussion; and when Madame Beck re-entered the house as it darkened, leaving her kinsman Paul yet lingering in the garden, I said to myself "He called me 'petite soeur' this morning.
How then was she to marry a man that had black nails, and smelt of glue? It was incumbent on her at least, for propriety's sake, to render him at once aware that it was in condescension ineffable she took any notice of him. "Alice, my girl!" began John again, in expostulatory tone. "Miss Cox, if you please, John Jephson," interposed Alice.
Pretty soon they will discover that some tenth-rate fellow painted the Sistine Chapel." Watkins put on an aggrieved and expostulatory manner. Uncle Ezra cut in. "Oh! my dear! Mr. Watkins may be right, quite right. It's his business to know, I am sure, and I anticipated all that he would say; indeed, I have come off rather better than I expected. There is old paint in it somewhere."
"Me me?" demanded the Cap'n, slugging his own breast ferociously. "Me put on an ap'un, and go out there, and kitchen-wallop for that jimbedoggified junacker of a tin-peddler? I'll burn this old shack down first, I will, by the " But Hiram entered fervent and expostulatory appeal.
Your prospects, Jane," she continued, rising and speaking in a sad and gently expostulatory tone "your prospects are bright with love and happiness; and it will be ungenerous and cruel in you to say aught which will deepen the shade that I fear is coming over mine." "O, I will not, Sabrey," warmly returned the kind-hearted Jane. "I did not intend it.
"And it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin." That it was also usual about this time in Jerusalem to set up advertisements in different languages, is gathered from the account which Josephus gives of an expostulatory message from Titus to the Jews when the city was almost in his hands; in which he says, Did ye not erect pillars with inscriptions on them, in the Greek and in our language, "Let no one pass beyond these bounds"?
In forgetting that you yourself had raised in me the hopes whose discomfiture you took as a personal injury? 'My dear sir! he stammered in an expostulatory tone, 'you must make allowance. It was a tremendous disappointment to me. 'I cannot say I felt it quite so much myself, but at least you owed me an apology for having misled me.
Eve made a deprecating and expostulatory noise with her tongue against her upper teeth. "I'll bring you something to eat. At least I'll try to find something," said she. "And are you sleeping here, too? Where?" Mr. Prohack demanded when Eve crept into Charlie's old bedroom with a tray in her hands. "I had to stay. I couldn't leave the girl. I'm sleeping in her old room."
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