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Lecount offered no remark, and again the signs and tokens of incredulity showed themselves in her face. Vacillation of purpose was not at all unusual in her experience of her master.
"Absolutely!" said I. "And now that you have explained it, I confess that I am as amazed as before." "It was very superficial, my dear Watson, I assure you. I should not have intruded it upon your attention had you not shown some incredulity the other day. But the evening has brought a breeze with it. What do you say to a ramble through London?"
"Sir," said Henry, "you have not had brought before you, painfully, as we have, all the circumstances upon which we, in a manner, feel compelled to found this horrible belief. At first incredulity was a natural thing. We had no idea that ever we could be brought to believe in such a thing." "That is the case," added Marchdale.
I am, however, armed at all points against human incredulity. We were kindly received by the Strombolite fishermen, who treated us as shipwrecked travelers. They gave us clothes and food. After a delay of forty-eight hours, on the 30th of September a little vessel took us to Messina, where a few days of delightful and complete repose restored us to ourselves.
Immediately his expression went back to the one he had met me with. "Pardon me," he said again. I composed myself as best I could in the face of his incredulity, swallowing with an effort the aversion I felt to giving him my story.
He asked the question, but as if he believed in himself and the impossibility of her hatred or disappointment while he asked it. She looked at him with naïve incredulity and surprise.
And in my room, from my bed "I wonder " With a low whistle, expressive of incredulity, he put that new theory from him and went down to the library. Gratified, and yet puzzled, by the results of his search of the upstairs rooms, Hastings was fully awake to the necessity of his interviewing Mrs. Brace as soon as possible. Lally, the chauffeur, drove him back to Washington early that Sunday morning.
Randerson and Owen started toward the gunman, to determine how badly he had been hit; they were met by Blair. There was amazement and incredulity in the man's eyes. "He's goin' to cash in quick," he said. "You got him, pretty nearly proper just over the heart. But, but, he says he's Watt Kelso! An' that that eastern dude, Masten, sent him over here payin' him five hundred cold, to perforate you!"
For one day all hands got into a beastly state of drunkenness, and the captain raised the skull and cross-bones, which he had handy in his chest. I was forced to climb the main rigging in order to escape being hacked to pieces." He sat bolt upright, those little eyebrows of his gone up full half an inch, and he raised his thin hands with an air of incredulity.
Where would you like to have it go?" The answer was a very strange sort of questioning grunt inarticulate nevertheless expressive of rude wonder and incredulity, as far as it expressed anything. And Molly stared. "Where shall I put this rose-tree?" said Daisy. "Where would it look prettiest? May I put it here, by these balsams?"
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