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They traversed the corridor, knocked at the door of Lady Hunterleys' apartment, and in response to a somewhat hesitating invitation, entered. Violet was lying upon the sofa. She looked up eagerly at their coming. "Linda!" she exclaimed. "How dear of you! I thought that it might have been Henry," she added, as though to explain the disappointment in her tone.
"I might take something less," he ventured to say, in a low, hesitating voice. "It is too late now," was Mr. Wilson's prompt reply. "Too late! How so?" "We have procured a lot." "Mr. Wilson!" Poor Smith started to his feet in chagrin and astonishment. "Yes; we have taken one of Jones's lots on the west side of the city. A beautiful ten acre lot." "You have!" Smith was actually pale.
To support this one-sided justice Tryon threatened the Regulators with fire and sword, and they remained quietly at home, brooding moodily over their failure but hesitating to act. We must now go on to the year 1770. The old troubles had continued, illegal fees and taxes, peculation and robbery. The sheriffs and tax-collectors were known to have embezzled over fifty thousand pounds.
A shot from Swinton turned the assailant, who now tore up the earth in his rage, looking everywhere round with its sharp flashing eye for a victim. At this moment, while it seemed hesitating and peering about, to the astonishment of the whole party, Omrah showed himself openly on the other side of the rhinoceros, waving his red handkerchief, which he had taken off his head.
One after the other the red men stepped forward and spoke, slowly, and sometimes hesitating over long English words, but with a fine earnestness that was accented by their strong, dignified bearing and their firm, well-cut features. The boy in front listened attentively, although he could not understand everything they said.
Holt looked after him, and then towards Hugh, hesitating whether to go or stay. Hugh took no notice of him: so he went slowly away, and Hugh was left alone. He was in an extreme perturbation. At the first moment, he was beyond measure hurt with Dale. He did not think his best friend would have so reminded him of his infirmity, and of his being a restraint on his companions.
She paused, hesitating, then with a shy half-laugh: "I really believed I was selling myself, Mr. Marlow. And I was proud of it. What I suffered afterwards I couldn't tell you; because I only discovered my love for my poor Roderick through agonies of rage and humiliation. I came to suspect him of despising me; but I could not put it to the test because of my father. Oh!
"I often tell my husband girls are ever so much more troublesome than boys, but I daresay I shall manage; and now, Mr Simpson, we are just going to have supper, will you join us? It will be our first regular meal in the house." "Thank you very much," Jack said, colouring and hesitating, "but I think, perhaps, you don't know that I am only a lad in the pit." "Stuff and nonsense," Mrs.
Hoarse and hesitating at first, as though the physical act were difficult, and rising now and then into the characteristic snarl, his voice would presently sink into a deep and resonant note and flow freely onward in a tone of subdued emphasis that was exceedingly impressive.
The old fellow owns a volandra in which he brings charcoal from the eastward twice a month." There was a moment of silence; then O'Reilly said, slowly, as if hesitating even to voice such a suggestion, "You mean he might take us out of here on his schooner?" "Who knows? He's not a bad old fellow and he likes me. But there would be no place for women." "How well does he like you?"
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