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He had an inkling of the way things were going. "Poker" John opened the ball with five hundred dollars. He had a good thing and he did not want to frighten his opponent by a plunge. He would leave it to Lablache to start raising. The money-lender raised him one thousand. Old John sniffed with the appreciation of an old war-horse at the scent of battle.
If I knew that a girl disliked me, nothing should make me press myself upon her. Am I odious to you, Nora?" "No; not odious, but very, very unfair." "I will have the truth if I be ever so unfair," he said. And by this time probably some inkling of the truth had reached his intelligence. There was already a tear in Nora's eye, but he did not pity her.
She spoke then, slowly, like a person who is listening to the sounds in a sea-shell held to her ear and, would you believe it? she told me afterwards that, at that speech of mine, for the first time she had a vague inkling of the tragedy that was to follow so soon although the girl had lived with them for eight years or so: "Oh, I'm not thinking of saying that he is not the best of husbands, or that he is not very fond of the girl."
Between them and this object they had discovered a perplexing barrier; an inattention. As Mr. Britling made his way by St. Martin's Church and across Trafalgar Square and marked the weary accumulation of this magnificently patriotic stuff, he had his first inkling of the imaginative insufficiency of the War Office that had been so suddenly called upon to organise victory.
Year after year, Thornton Fairchild had sat in the big armchair by the windows, watching the days grow old and fade into night, studying sunset after sunset, voicing the vain hope that the gloaming might bring the twilight of his own existence, a silent man except for this, rarely speaking of the past, never giving to the son who worked for him, cared for him, worshiped him, the slightest inkling of what might have happened in the dim days of the long ago to transform him into a beaten thing, longing for the final surcease.
I suspect you find no release even in your dreams, you are so wrapped up in the thing. With all this you must surely get hold of Happiness soon, if indeed you have not found it long ago without telling us. Her. Alas, Lycinus, I am only just beginning to get an inkling of the right way.
"Days ago er Jokai of Vienna," went on Carl thoughtfully, "I dispatched a formal communication to your country. Why has it been ignored? Why did my first inkling of its effect come in the sight of your face in suspicious territory? And why, Monsieur," purred Carl softly, "did you seek to kill me by a trick?" "Monsieur, you delayed me. I am hot of temper " "And kill whoever angers you?
"It is a weak, childish sex with no inkling of higher things." Here, however, he suddenly drew himself up. "Life is very hard!" he cried, in a loud voice. "The perpetual struggle between duty and inclination for a man of genius ...!" He grew franker, and gave gratuitous details of the scene that had taken place in his room that afternoon. "A fury!" said Schilsky.
I've only got an inkling of what I want." He spoke slowly, in a curious manner, as though he were straining to hear something which was only just audible. There seemed to be a mysterious force in him which he himself did not understand, but which was struggling obscurely to find an outlet. His strength impressed you.
"I suppose they ought to be contented to see us enjoying ourselves. It's all in the way of civilization, I dare say." "It's just as I thought," said Margaret, more lightly. "You haven't an inkling of what civilization is. See that flower before you. It is the most exquisite thing in this room. See the refinement of its color and form. That was cultivated. The plant came from South Africa.
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