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Verres, however, had got, no one knew how, some inkling of the matter, and he begged Antiochus to let him have a sight of it. The young prince, who, so far from being suspicious, was hardly sufficiently cautious, had it carefully wrapped up, and sent it to the governor's palace. When he had minutely inspected it, the messengers prepared to carry it back. Verres, however, had not seen enough of it.
I often wasted hours, in dreamily composing intricate monograms on my blotting-paper, in which Min's name was twisted into all sorts of flowery characters, which were intermingled so as to be nearly incomprehensible to any one unacquainted with my secret. My fellow-clerks got an inkling of it, however.
"Exactly," said I. "I want to know what sort of things they are looking at just at present." "Have you any inkling ?" "None." "If our agents have to travel " I expressed a reasonable generosity in the matter of expenses, and left him at last with a vague discomfort in my mind. How far mightn't this undesirable unearth the whole business in the course of his investigations?
There was an inkling of some vast inheritance already in his mind a vast inheritance perhaps misapplied of some unprecedented importance and opportunity. What had he to do? And this room's secluded silence was eloquent of imprisonment! It came into Graham's mind with irresistible conviction that this series of magnificent impressions was a dream.
These good-natured artists would sing us anything we wanted, but it was from them that I first got an inkling of those petty jealousies that are such a disagreeable feature of the theatrical world in every country.
Not that a crack-brained person like Ingeborg could know anything of Glory Goldie's movements; but she was one of the kind who sensed it in the air when something extraordinary was going to happen. She could see and hear things of which wise folk never had an inkling. Engineer Boraeus of Borg was in the habit of strolling down to the pier mornings to meet the steamer.
It had been one of the delights of Louis XI to contemplate the movements of a certain churchman whom he had had put in a cage, and some inkling of the pleasure to be derived from this pastime of tyrants dawned on Wetherell. Perhaps the judge, too, thought of this as he looked at "Quentin Durward" on the table.
She at once set quietly to work making arrangements for our departure taking good care the while that no one should get an inkling of where we were going, what we were taking with us, the hour of our leaving or which of the palace-gates we would go out by. Cunning old schemer that she was, she forgot nothing.
We are ordered to Metz!" Stewart waved a letter. Was poverty and solitude at an end? They did not know it. In leaving the Meuse district did they leave, too, the boundless rain, the swollen rivers, the shining swamps, the mud which ebbed and flowed upon the land like a tide? Was hunger at an end, discomfort, and poor living? They had no inkling.
He had thought the coast of Cuba the mainland, and he now began to consider it at least possible that the peninsula of Paria was mainland also another part of the same continent. That was the truth Paria was the mainland and if he had not been so bemused by his dreams and theories he might have had some inkling of the real wonder and significance of his discovery.
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