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But I burn to hear of you," he added. "I have had an inkling of your story from the landlord. So your grandfather is dead, and that blastie, your uncle, of whom you told me on the John, is in possession." He listened to my narrative keenly, but with many interruptions. And when I was done, he sighed.
They are a number of human passions, which even the acutest psychologists are as yet quite unable to analyse or to classify: they act according to laws of which we have hardly the vaguest inkling; and, even if we possessed any definite laws, the facts to which they have to be applied are so amazingly complex as to defy any attempt at assigning results.
"The coronation has not taken place yet," returned Cæsar, with a touch of dry humour that reassured his father more than any words that all was well with his son. Meanwhile, hour after hour, Christopher's car raced over the white roads. The twinkling lights in the villages through which he sped grew fewer and at last ceased. A more solid blackness was the only inkling of dwellings on either hand.
We require also information regarding the division of troops under Sir Henry's command the proportion of British, Hessians, and Tories, together with some inkling as to Clinton's immediate plans. There is a rumor abroad that Philadelphia is to be evacuated, and that the British forces contemplate a retreat overland to New York.
All this means that the pitcher must not give the striker the slightest inkling of the kind of ball to expect, so that he will have the shortest possible time in which to prepare to hit. I advise against the use of too many different curves. The accomplished twirler can pitch any kind of curve, but there are some which he seldom employs.
But there had still been a succession of little tumbles, unfortunate slips for which he himself should not always have been held responsible; and he had never quite stood upright on his pinnacle, visible to Lily's eyes as being really excelsior. Of all this John Eames himself had an inkling which had often made him very uncomfortable.
But if I get an inkling of the matter, I will provide well enough, or there shall not be one stick of wood within five hundred leagues about me whereof to make a cudgel. In good faith, Friar John, I speak now seriously unto thee, I think it will be my best not to marry. Hearken to what the bells do tell me, now that we are nearer to them!
"You see, as the case now stands, they think they have the claimant to this money in Miss Halliday Sheldon's stepdaughter. But if they got an inkling of Susan Meynell's marriage and, in point of fact the actual state of the case they might try to get hold of my friend, Gustave Lenoble.
And then, as the cold earthy atmosphere was beginning to make him sweat, the son of the soil climbed out again. "Great Cæsar!" exclaimed Haigh, when the narrative had reached this point. "I'm beginning to have an inkling of how it was all worked out. If that chap photographed the inscription by magnesium flashlight, I verily believe I know where the plates But don't let me interrupt yet.
Should this preaching fool whistle her back to her old perch, we were but lost men." "No fear of that, my master," replied Anthony Foster; "she is in no mood to stoop to his lure, for she yelled out on seeing him as if an adder had stung her." "That is good. Canst thou not get from thy daughter an inkling of what passed between them, good Foster?"
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