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Well, and suppose I refuse to come in?" "Regretfully I shall have to employ another attorney." "Humph! Well?" "But you won't refuse." The blue eyes opposite were still twinkling. "In the first place, you're my good friend my best friend. You wouldn't be seen letting me start off on a wild-goose chase like this without your guiding hand at the helm to see that I didn't come a cropper."
"I'm glad it's gone," muttered Tackleton, turning the expressive eye all round the room. "I wonder where it's gone, and what it was. Humph! Caleb, come here! Who's that with the grey hair?" "I don't know, sir," returned Caleb in a whisper. "Never see him before in all my life. A beautiful figure for a nut-cracker; quite a new model.
"She will lose what is dearest to her." "Humph! I wonder what that can be. Had you not better threaten Miss Saxon personally, Mrs. Herne?" "I have no need to, Maraquito will do that. With my niece as an enemy, Miss Saxon has no chance of gaining the prize she desires." "But you reckon without the feelings of Mr. Mallow. He loves " "He does not he does not!" cried Mrs.
"You will never reach it by following out any clue given you by Eleanore Leavenworth." His eyebrows lifted expressively, but he said nothing. "Miss Eleanore Leavenworth has been used by some one acquainted with her firmness, generosity, and perhaps love. Let us discover who possesses sufficient power over her to control her to this extent, and we find the man we seek." "Humph!" came from Mr.
"What's all that gibberish?" "I said," he corrected hastily, "we've got too much at stake to risk any failure when a little money would guarantee success." "Would five thousand dollars guarantee it?" "Detectives!" "Yes. To check up their habits. Suppose we found a man gambling on the sly; we'd hold that over his head and " "Humph! I don't like it much, but in a good cause it may be justifiable."
"'Humph! says I. 'Is it the prophecy that Butler's bankin' on? "He laughed again. 'Not so much as on Lady Evelyn's nine hundred, I cal'late, says he. Sim likes Susannah the best of the two, so we all reckon, but she ain't rich and Effie is. And yet, if the Debs woman should win that lawsuit of hers against the railroad she'd have pretty nigh twice as much.
"Why, indeed! but that I knew thou wast the Captain of the army; and but thou said'st right the folly is mine, to have played against the crafty Tribune so unequal a brain as thine. Enough! Reproaches are idle. When were ye arrested?" "At dusk the instant we entered the gates of Rome. Rienzi entered privately." "Humph! What can he know against me? Who can have betrayed me?
"Uncle," said Capitola, suddenly, "what is under the trap-door in my room?" "What! Have they put you in that room?" exclaimed the old man, hastily looking up. "There was no other one prepared, sir," said the housekeeper. "Besides, I like it very well, uncle," said Capitola. "Humph! humph! humph!" grunted the old man, only half satisfied.
"Philo-Dramaticus. Crummles, the country manager and actor, cannot be more than forty-three, or forty-four years of age. Crummles is NOT a Prussian, having been born at Chelsea." Humph! said Nicholas, 'that's an odd paragraph. 'Very, returned Crummles, scratching the side of his nose, and looking at Nicholas with an assumption of great unconcern. 'I can't think who puts these things in.
Instantly there came the scraping of a chair and quick approaching steps. "How did you see me?" asked a harsh voice. Coquenil smiled toward a faint light, but kept his eyes closed. "I didn't, I haven't seen you yet." "But you knew I was writing in my diary?" "Because you were so absorbed that you did not hear me stir." "Humph! And the lead pencil?" "I heard you sharpen it.
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