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'Keep it carefully, then, said the gentleman impressively; 'and if ever you should wish to part with it, may I ask you to give me the refusal of it? 'The refusal? 'I mean, do not sell it to anyone else until you have given me the opportunity of buying it. 'All right, said Cyril, 'we won't. But we don't want to sell it. We want to make it do things.

"He's all right, ain't you, Tommy?" said the cook, coming to the rescue. "Boys ought to keep their faces clean," said Mr. Green, impressively; "there's nothing more unpleasant than a face what wants washing. You don't want to grow up like that, do you? Look at it, Joe." "It might be cleaner," said Joe, thus appealed to, slowly; "likewise it might be dirtier." "It might be much dirtier," said Mr.

Of course, the whole thing is a wretched mistake, that will be cleared up sooner or later, let us hope sooner, as surely he has suffered enough already, poor dear fellow!" She pauses; Portia puzzled, and secretly indignant, says nothing. Seeing she will not speak, Julia goes on again even more impressively than before.

Berenger hesitated for a moment, but he felt himself again dizzy; the exertion of springing into his saddle was quite beyond him, and bending his head he submitted passively to be helped into the black and white coach. Humfrey, however, clutched Philip's arm, and said impressively, 'Have a care, sir; this is no other than the fine lady, sister to the murderous villain that set upon him.

Thus exasperation was vented and no harm done. Meanwhile word had come from Philadelphia that the impeachment of the State Supreme Court judges had also failed. Here, even more impressively than in the case of Chase, had been illustrated that solidarity of Bench and Bar which has ever since been such an influential factor in American government.

Angie moved slowly toward the door, but Josie inclined to linger. "Don't hurry, I beg of you," Duncan interposed. "Oh, we haven't hurried," she said with a gush of gratification that startled the man. "You'll remember what I said about the choir, won't you?" He braced himself to take advantage of the opening. "I shall never forget it," he said impressively. She gave him her hand. "Then good-bye."

The parallel rivers made a water barrier on the north where the Federals were compelled to wade to victory; while the western front, a high range of the Blue Ridge, stretched along the sky like a vast wall, its purple ramparts frowning down in defiance, or the nearer hills rising impressively up from the plain, forming in the valley ways between well protected avenues for invading the North."

Last night," she began impressively, "I went to a large supper at the Savoy, and I sat next to Charley Wimpole. He came in late, after everybody had finished, and I attacked him while he was eating his supper.

Upon them it acted more impressively than the others: besides, the player's eye was searching them now; he was playing into their very bodies. And they responded with some swift shocks of recognition crossing their faces. Suddenly the old Indian sprang up. He thrust his arms out, and made, as if unconsciously, some fantastic yet solemn motions.

Presently a clamour from the crowd outside, sharper and fiercer than any that had preceded it, announced some new and unexpected danger close at hand. White-faced, Mr. Ridder stepped to the edge of the platform and lifted his hand impressively. "Let me speak," he said.