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"Then, on your weariest days, come and see me. We can always see each other in Berkeley Square. Send me a wire saying you are coming." "I could not come to see you," she said, still looking at him fixedly; "you know that I could not.... Then why do you ask me?" "Because I want you." "You know that I'd like to come." "Then, if you do, you'll come.
He withdrew it. She gave a despairing groan. He continued to look fixedly at her. She thought he was trying to speak, but could not; but his eyes spoke. They addressed to her some request, at the same time with an imperious though supplicating expression, which she doubtless understood; for she said aloud, with an accent full of sadness and tenderness: "I promise it to you."
This man is striding up and down, cutting at my poor vines with his apoplexy of a whip. He calls me; I stand before him thus, civil but erect. "'Have you any strangers here, Don Annunzio? "'No, Señor Colonel. "It is true, señorita. To make a stranger of you, so friendly, so gracious the thought is intolerable. "He approaches, he regards me fixedly.
Rand looked at it fixedly as he rode by. Malplaquet was a Cary place, and it had an air of Greenwood. Three miles further on, sunk in elder and pokeberry and shaded by a ragged willow, there appeared a wayside forge. The blacksmith was at work, and the clink, clink of iron made a cheerful sound. Rand drew rein. "Good-morning, Jack Forrest. Have a look, will you, at this shoe of Selim's."
"Or a lieutenant of hussars, Mademoiselle!" said Pioche, looking fixedly at the vivandière, who held the book close to her face to conceal a deep blush that covered it. "But, halloo, there! Qui vive?" The cuirassier had just caught a glimpse of me at the moment, and every eye was turned at once to where I was standing. "Ah, Lieutenant, you here! Not invalided, I hope?" "No, Pioche.
If I did not get my money, I acquired, at least, a host of distinguished acquaintances. But, Mr. Ritchie, you must introduce me to your friend." "My cousin. Mr. Nicholas Temple," I said. Monsieur Gratiot looked at him fixedly. "Of the Charlestown Temples?" he asked, and a sudden vague fear seized me. "Yes," said Nick, "there was once a family of that name."
He looked fixedly at them, and when Schwan brought him the brandy he had ordered, he filled his glass and emptied it at one gulp. He then took some newspapers out of his pocket and began to read, holding the pages in such a way as to conceal his face. The host now brought the ham and eggs. As he placed them on the table, the carman hastily asked: "How far is it, sir, from here to Remiremont?"
"Don't," he said, looking at her fixedly. "I can see you don't like it." "On the contrary," she said promptly, "I think it beautifully written, and very ingenious in plot and situation. Of course it isn't the story I told you I didn't expect that, for I'm not a genius. The man is not at all like my cousin, you know, and the woman well really, to tell the truth, SHE is simply inconceivable!"
The red man wore Malone's uniform coat, which he had put on back foremost his head-dress having, in all probability been exchanged for it, as an amicable courtesy between the parties. There they sat, looking fixedly at each other; neither spoke, nor even smiled the rum bottle, which at brief intervals passed from one to the other, maintained a friendly intercourse that each was content with.
There he was, all by himself, seated upon the broken canoe the natives grouped around him at a distance, and eyeing him more and more fixedly. 'It is getting late: said Jimmy, who was standing behind the rest. 'Nukuheva is far off, and I cannot cross the Happar country by night.
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