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Alison felt obliged to follow, yet could not bear to leave Maria to policemen and prison warders. "Maria, poor Maria, I am so sorry for you, I will try to come and see you " But her hand was seized with an imperative, "Ailie, you must come, they are all waiting for you." How little had she thought her arm would ever be drawn into that arm, so unheeded by both. "So that is Edward's little girl!
Would it be possible to drop a word of warning, intelligible to Cecil herself, but meaningless to anyone else who might by chance open the wire? "Back in town. Have important news. Imperative to see you to-day, if possible. Appoint meeting. Delay dangerous."
"Nay, madam, necessity and duty to my owners has rendered it imperative for me to approach the coast cautiously, and hence a delay I could not avoid." "You are too honest and manly a spirit, sir," said the mother, frankly, "to be engaged in such a trade. Ah, sir, why not turn your talents to a more fitting purpose? The field of commerce is extensive, and such as you need not look for command."
"I am very sorry; my business is imperative " "Imperative! imperative! that such words should fall from cherry lips that will become irresistible should they turn to pouting; so take heed and tempt me not." He had already swallowed several glasses of wine and was fast becoming audacious. Janet stood behind Mistress Penwick's chair; her face appearing immutable.
If a juxtaposition, as at the dinner table, made an introduction imperative, the name of the lady next you was so slurred that you couldn't possibly understand it. Party succeeded party. I went to them because they gave me a chance to become acquainted with people. But very early after my arrival, I was of course summoned by the King.
A traitor now would be the destruction of the party; and it was certain that any negro deserting to the enemy, and offering to act as their guide to the various strongholds of the defenders, would receive immense rewards. Thus it was imperative that every man, of whose fidelity and constancy the least doubt was entertained, should be carefully sent out of the way of temptation.
Rather nervously she realized that her covert was hardly more than a hundred feet from the promontory. It was imperative that she be absolutely silent. Her eyes searched the openings along the Rim. The gray form of a deer crossed one of these, and she concluded it had made the sound she had heard. Then she lay down more comfortably and waited.
The wide discrepancies between our earliest history and our present make it an imperative issue for everyone loving the name America to cherish him while he remains among us as the only esthetic representative of our great country up to the present hour.
Diana followed the old lady, who was half imperative and half impatient. She never forgot that hour in all her life, everything was so new and strange. The windows open towards the water, the fresh salt air coming in, the India matting under her feet, made her feel as if she had got into a new world. The dishes were also in part strange to her, and her only companion fully strange.
But he held out his hand with such imperative cordiality that she had to take it. Then he drew up a chair to the corner of the sofa on which she sat and placed it in a way that barred approach or egress. "Oh, shade of Mrs. Hunter!" she groaned inwardly, "what can I do? I'm fairly surrounded all avenues of retreat cut off. I must face the enemy and fight."
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