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"Louis, have you forgotten?" she cried in sharp pain. "I have forgotten nothing," he replied incisively. "Listen to me, Ruth. It is because I remember that I ask you. Give me the right to care for you, and you will be happier than you can ever be in these circumstances." "You do not know what you ask, Louis. Even if I could, you would never be satisfied." "Try me, Ruth," he entreated.
Despite the tense of that last statement, it was the old Raffles who was speaking now, the incisively cynical old Raffles that I still knew the best, the Raffles of the impudent quotations and jaunty jeux d'esprit. This Raffles only meant half he said but had generally done the other half! I had the honour of making Raffles smile. "I did think of it, Bunny," said he.
He added rather incisively that the expenditure of money on charitable objects seemed to him to show that the Colonel's conscience was ill at ease. Father Payne was very indignant. He said the world had gone mad on philanthropy and social service. Three-quarters of it was only fussy ambition.
You can say you were at the hotel all the time. And Keller will support your word." "I presume I shall have to go to Willets since I have to lie!" she said, wrathfully. "Yes," said Lawler incisively; "it takes courage to be truthful, Miss Wharton. But if a person always tells the truth " "Shut up!" she said savagely; "you make me sick!" She glared malignantly at him. "Ugh, I positively loathe you!
"Has it occurred to you," he asked incisively, "what a night spent in the open might mean to you? Rheumatism is not precisely the kind of thing a dancer wants to cultivate." "Well, I'm not going below, anyway." She sat down firmly and Quarrington regarded her a moment in silence. "You baby!" he said at last in an amused voice.
"Squar' er raound," she said incisively, "It's thu mizzable truth. Ef it wa'nt, yuh would take thu job offen Ken's ban's an' keep my lamb's heart from breakin'!" She could hear the beating of his heart in the absolute quiet that followed her audacious words. When she dared to raise her eyes he was very pale and wan but he met her pitying glance with a brave smile although his lips were twitching.
But 'twas jest as you'd cuff the kitten for snarlin' up your yarn." "Well, what's Isabel goin' to do?" asked Mrs. Ellison. "S'pose she'll marry him?" "Why, she won't unless he tells her to. If he does, I dunno but she'll think she's got to." "I say it's a shame," put in Mrs. Robbins incisively; "an' Isabel with everything all fixed complete so 't she could have a good time.
"I guess Eben Hanscom never'll let you step your foot out of his house now he's tolled you into it," Lizzie Ann West remarked incisively one afternoon, when Mariana, after a pleasant call on her, stood in the doorway, saying the last words the visit had not left room for. "He ain't goin' to bite into such pie-crust as yours, day in, day out, and go back to baker's trade."
"Describe Hunter." Steingall's voice rang out incisively; the reporter took off his spectacles, and began to burnish them, for his face was glistening with perspiration. "He is about five feet ten inches in height, and weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 pounds. He is straight and well-built, and his face is finely molded, with big, luminous eyes, deeply recessed, and "
Paul said that when he became a man he put away childish things. He could hardly afford to say that now, if he hoped to be regarded as a man of sense and weight. I do not wish to be a mere Jeremiah in the region of prophecy, and to deplore, sarcastically and incisively, what I cannot amend.
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