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Then Kitty made the effort, hesitatingly. "Do you love the life so very, very much, Phil?" He answered quickly. "Yes, but I could love any life that suited you." "No no," she returned hurriedly, "that's not I mean Phil, why are you so satisfied here? There is so little for a man like you." "So little!" His voice told her that her words had stung. "I told you that you did not know.
Althea fixed her eyes upon the ground, and, after a short period of reflection, answered hesitatingly: "The task which you set before me is certainly no easy one, but I shall rely upon your indulgence." "She will!" cried the matron to the others.
It brought about a change so prompt that it disturbed the Second Deputy. "You 're you 're not tied up already, are you?" he had hesitatingly demanded. "You 're not married?" "No, I 'm not tied up!" she had promptly and fiercely responded. "My life 's my own my own!" "Then why can't you marry me?" the practical-minded man had asked. "I could!" she had retorted, with the same fierceness as before.
"The truth is," she continued, hesitatingly, "I was afraid you had persuaded Ninitta to sit for the Fatima, you know you said once that she was the only model in Boston who was what you wanted." "Did I say that? What a dreadful memory you have. I should expect Grant to make a burnt sacrifice of me if I had beguiled her into such an indiscretion.
"Ah," said the porter, nodding. Another long gaze. "Well, I'm going by the gate myself," he said at last. "I reckon Molly wouldn't make much odds of the lot," glancing at the luggage, "if the young lady would like a lift." "Perhaps," said Anna, hesitatingly, "I'd better have a cab, as Mrs Forrest is not here." "I could order you a fly at the Blue Boar," said the porter.
Jupp hesitatingly attempted to decline the proffered hospitality, murmuring something about being wanted down at the station; but the vicar wouldn't hear of his refusal, the more especially as Mary reminded him that he had asked in her hearing his fellow-porter to look after his work in his absence.
"I'm glad he's rested," said she; "though I haven't no certainty about his state hereafter." "You must leave that with the Lord, Miss Content," said Mr. Goodyear. "You have done what was right; you can't think He will do less." "That's a fact; and now I expect my last trouble is over." "But it has taken almost all your money," hesitatingly replied the minister.
Devant," Thompson went on, still hesitatingly; "Larsen had a chance to get hold of this breed of pointers and lost out, because he dickered too long, and acted cheesy. Now they've turned out to be famous. Some men never forget a thing like that. Larsen's been talkin' these pointers down ever since, sir." "Go on," said Devant. "I know Larsen's a good trainer.
In reality I was not there talking to her, but in my den in New York writing about her. I may not be a realist, but I am truthful. I could not deceive her, so I replied, hesitatingly: "Well, Miss Andrews, I am no, I am not here, except in spirit." "That's what I thought," she said, demurely.
To a woman who for ten years had depended on others for almost everything but the mere act of breathing, it was joy unspeakable. She stepped once, twice, and again along the side of her bed; then she stopped with a puzzled frown under her feet was the unyielding, unfamiliar straw matting. She took four more steps, hesitatingly, and with her arms outstretched at full length before her.
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