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"She ain't heard the end of it yet, I can tell you." Mr. Letts fidgeted. "You leave her alone," he said, mildly. "It's true I'm not her son, but it don't matter, because I've been to see a lawyer about her, and he told me that this house and half the furniture belongs by law to Betty. It's got nothing to do with you." "Indeed!" said Mr. Green.
Some of the less eager conspirators began to feel the demoralizing effects of the long wait; their courage began to ebb. Andrew Windybank had time to reflect, and he wished himself well out of the whole business. Here and there a man sighed or fidgeted in the darkness. Basil was quick to notice the signs, and equally quick to combat them.
Let no one fire till we are about. Man the starboard guns; to starboard, and wait, all small arm men. Pass the order down to the gunner, and bid all fire high, and take the rigging." Bang went one of the Spaniard's bow guns, and the shot went wide. Then another and another, while the men fidgeted about, looking at the priming of their muskets, and loosened their arrows in the sheaf.
Did you know poor B ? Well! he's dead now, had fever and went off like a babe in eight hours though he'd been out fourteen years for A and D . They sent him out a new book-keeper, a tender young thing with a dairymaid complexion and the notion that he'd got the indigestion. He fidgeted about it something awful.
He is now on his estates near Fregellae and Almo is his head overseer, in charge of the entire place. He has been there three months already." Brinnaria fidgeted on her sofa, for, as on the previous occasion, Vocco had imparted his news after dinner. "Give me another goblet of that Setian you bought from Zaelis," she said. "I'm getting to be a confirmed wine-bibber.
She laughed and said gaily, "I will answer no more conundrums; ask your uncle." Leila who took no interest in politics fidgeted until she got her chance when Mrs. Ann would not answer John. "I want to hear about that talking oak, John."
Bascomb," put in Tom, "while I must have control of the men and their camp I don't wish to do anything to cast reflection on yourself as the head of the company. May I therefore ask, sir, if there is any especial reason why Evarts should be allowed in this camp?" President Bascomb fidgeted in the porch chair on which he was sitting. "I -I don't know of any reason, Mr.
Johnson fidgeted uneasily in his chair; at last he said, "I can't do without my beer; I haven't strength to work without it." "You've taken plenty of it, I reckon," remarked Ned, "and you don't seem to thrive much on't." "I've taken too much," said the other, "but I can't do without a little." "You can't do with a little, I fear.
There was a general hush of expectation while Wilbur Summerfield, the chairman, and Robert Ingalls, the secretary of the meeting, were counting the votes. John Haynes, was evidently nervous, and fidgeted about, anxious to learn his fate.
Weshawee, whose protege had many suitors and was a decided coquette, fidgeted nervously and frequently adjusted her robe or fingered her necklace to ease her mind, for she dreaded lest, in spite of watchfulness, some mishap might have befallen her charge.
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