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Nan gazed at him in astonishment at this new, surprising Sandy who was talking to her with the forcefulness of a man ten years his senior. "As for being 'out of it, as you say," he went on emphatically. "If you are, it's only by your own consent. Anyone who writes as you can need never be out of it.
But although, like the inhabitants of the dark hemisphere, they were, evidently, unaccustomed to hearing sounds of such forcefulness issue from a living creature no larger than themselves, they were not faint-hearted, and the air ship did not, as we half expected it would, take flight. The momentary commotion was quickly quieted, and our visitors continued their inspection.
It seemed as if a husk had been stripped from him, and a shrinking creature had come out of it which at present she could not recognise. Then he suddenly wheeled on her, and for the first time some kind of forcefulness appeared in his manner. "And my Uncle Bassett?" he cried abruptly. "What is he doing all this while?" Marjorie said that Mr.
The expression that she had noticed now and then was once more in his face. "I don't think you like the fog any more than I do," she said. "No," responded Wyllard, with a quiet forcefulness that startled her. "I hate it." "Why?" "It recalls something that still gives me a very bad few minutes every once in a while. It has been worrying me again to-night."
The Chinese woman, perhaps, lacks the charm of the Japanese or Indian, but in spite of her many handicaps she impresses the outsider with her native good sense and forcefulness, and I should expect that even more than the other two she would play a great part in the development of her people when her chance came.
Barrington was never sure why he told him, but he was hard pressed then, and there was a quiet forcefulness about the younger man that had its effect on him. "That," he said, holding out a document, "is the one contract I have not covered." Winston glanced at it. "The quantity is small. Still, money is very scarce and bank interest almost extortionate just now."
It gave Nina a sudden feeling of satisfaction to see how attractive John was by comparison with the others. He had a quiet reserve and a forcefulness that Nina thought very effective in this foreign surrounding, and she was ashamed of herself for having judged him by the shallow standard of mere social grace. The Countess Masco's parties were renowned for their gayety.
Suppose that this life is one of extreme forcefulness, of stress and storm, like some prehistoric condition on our globe, but invested with more intellectual attributes than the same ages on our earth required or possessed, perhaps reaching a permanent condition not unlike that depicted in the Niebelungen Lied or the Sagas of the North. It might be called the brawn period.
She was, with somewhat crude forcefulness, trying to rouse a sense of responsibility in the man, to incite him to resolute action and wholesome restraint, and, as he remembered what he had hitherto thought of her, a salutary sense of confusion crept upon him. She seemed to recognise it, for at length she glanced up at him sharply. "What is it, Gregory? Why do you look at me like that?" she asked.
And the manner in which the Police interposed against the madness of inexpert men who were anxious to run the White Horse Rapids and the Miles Canyon in crazy boats on the way to Dawson was admirable in its quiet forcefulness. A good many of these people were men and women from offices and stores in American cities who knew boats only by hearsay.
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