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When he raised his head Marian saw that he looked older, and she noticed or fancied she did that there was some unfamiliar peculiarity about his eyes. 'I am obliged to you for coming, he began with distant formality. 'Since I saw you last I have learnt something which makes a change in my position and prospects, and it is necessary to speak on the subject.
Three cheers from the prisoners followed the migration, and the officer ascended to the deck, unconscious of the number and variety of the recruits he had obtained without the formality of an enlistment.
He accomplished his luxurious repast without the formality of sitting down, without the accompaniment of salt and butter, for which he did not care to trouble himself to ascend to the floor above, desirous only to get away as speedily as possible from that dismal kitchen, where the blinking, smoking little lamp perfumed the air with fumes of petroleum.
Nikitin, who, as usual, stood for severity and for strict formality, was against it. The whole case, then, depended on Skovorodnikoff's vote. And his vote was thrown against a reversal, principally for the reason that Nekhludoff's determination to marry the girl on moral grounds was extremely repugnant to him.
All I can say is 'Thank you'; all I can do in gratitude is to write my check if you will be kind enough to suggest the figures." "Are you sure that my services are ended?" "Thank you, quite sure." So the Tracer of Lost Persons named the figures, and his client produced a check book and filled in a check for the amount. This was presented and received with pleasant formality.
Sam Haymond, D.D., gathering together his belongings, as the train whistled for the village, fancied that he could visualize with a fair accuracy the gentleman who had written, "You will be met at the station." Eben Tollman used, in his correspondence, a stilted formality which conjured up the portrait of one somewhat staid and humorless.
The time wore on toward midnight, and her guests got themselves away with more or less difficulty as they attempted the formality of leave-taking or not. Some of the hands who thought this necessary found it a serious affair; but most of them slipped off without saying good night to Mrs.
Yet what the lieutenant had to offer in the way of testimony was so tinctured with bitterness that it must have been plain to the veriest novice he was no fit judge of the case. But Bucky knew as well as the judges that his trial was a merely perfunctory formality.
She did not like effusiveness, but this conventional formality seemed to her singularly out of place, until she remembered that she had once or twice already found the matter-of-fact quietness with which the man made his appearance and went away again almost disconcerting.
The condemned cell is wretchedly dark and gloomy," he added, turning to his nephew; "and really the thing's a mere formality." He coughed and shifted his feet in evident embarrassment; then called back the sergeant, who was leaving the room with his prisoner. "Wait, sergeant; I want to speak to him." The Gadfly did not move, and the Governor's voice seemed to fall on unresponsive ears.
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