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Posed with consummate grace in a comfortless chair, a figure of slender elegance in her half-mourning, she had narrated quietly her version of last night's misadventure, an occasional tremor of humour lightening the moving modulations of her voice. A deep and vibrant voice, contralto in quality, hinting at hidden treasures of strength in the woman whose superficial mind it expressed.
The youth looked somewhat inclined to be angry at this mode of hinting that he was still rather juvenile but the major went on. "And you were engaged, six months ago, to the beauty you used to tell me so much about, Miss Hope of Oakside." "Yes yes well?" replied the youth. "And what for have ye broke off in such a sudden manner? unde rixa? as a body may say." "I broke off, Major M'Toddy?
If you can manage your matrimonial affairs without all this fuss, Davie, I should advise you to do the same." "What are you hinting at? What new mystery is this?" cried Hume. "Let us keep to solid fact for the present," interposed the barrister. "I wish I had met you sooner, Mr. Frazer. I would be nearing Naples now, instead of entering Stowmarket Have you any further information?"
Delicacy prevented his even hinting at the one, and regard for the feelings of his companion at a moment when strength and exertion were most demanded of her, prevented him from alluding to the latter, which had, besides, only reached him as a mere rumour.
The women that had been her worshiping friends now spoke behind her back, hinting at some scandal. Nasty tales began to circulate as feminine jealousy got the upper hand. In the presence of soldiers these tongues were silent, but there were other males in the quarter who were not soldiers.
Sir Richard, upon this, sent for Maurice Frere, his sister's son the abolition of the slave trade had ruined the Bristol House of Frere and bought for him a commission in a marching regiment, hinting darkly of special favours to come.
The girls had their father's handsome features, but in their skin there ran a dusky tinge, hinting of other than pure Saxon blood; and they were every whit as haughtily self-willed as he was.
That is the conclusion to which you would probably have come if you had entered his sitting-room, where the bare tables, the large old-fashioned horse-hair chairs, and the threadbare Turkey carpet perpetually fumigated with tobacco, seemed to tell a story of wifeless existence that was contradicted by no portrait, no piece of embroidery, no faded bit of pretty triviality, hinting of taper-fingers and small feminine ambitions.
Pretending, therefore, to awake one morning extravagantly alarmed, his helpmate was full of anxiety to know what was the matter; and having sufficiently, as he thought, whetted her curiosity, by mysteriously hinting that "he could a tale unfold," at length Peter proceeded as follows: "H ll of a dream last night.
Honestly, the most of it is guess work, at that. But perhaps a 'committee of one, dropping a hint at home, might at least arouse some uncomfortable questioning of a certain great man. That's about all, though. Proof is quite another thing." The captain pondered. He was fully aware that the unpopularity of the "committee" would nullify whatever good its hinting might do.
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