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Enoch inquired, in the tone of a connoisseur, transfixing Amberley with his shrewd eyes. "Don't know's I could tell you, neighbor, I kind o' fancied the ones with the snappin' black eyes. But I ruther guess some other kind would ha' done's well, when it come to the pint." Enoch raised his eyebrows inquiringly. "Wouldn't ary one on 'em hev you?" he asked. "Never asked 'em," was the reply.
He looked inquiringly and a little frowningly at the other for a moment, as if doubtful whether to resent the sneer that accompanied the words just spoken; but at last he good-humouredly said: "Blood o' me bones, but it's much I fear the honest waist hasn't always been me portion Heaven forgive me!" "'Nom de pipe, this Irishman!" replied Pierre.
Sensitive to feel the lessening cordiality of her hostess's manner, Katharine hid her feeling behind an added flippancy, as she tossed her palms outward, in a manner wholly natural to herself, but which the house-mistress again fancied an affectation, and exclaimed: "Well!" "Well?" returned Miss Eunice, quietly but inquiringly. "Well, I suppose you're the legatee and I'm the legacy.
Then I called her a fidgety, fussy old maid." "And your letter is from her?" Rose said inquiringly. "Yes; she wants me to pay her a visit, taking Elsie with me, and leaving her there for the summer." "There, papa! where?" "Lansdale, Ohio. Should you like to go?"
'No, ma'am, it hardly would, he answered, gravely. 'I will try what can be done, said Mary, 'unless you would speak to Mr. Ponsonby yourself. He looked inquiringly at Mr. Ponsonby's figure some paces distant, and shook his head. 'I will try, repeated Mary; and then she added, 'These grand hill-tops and blue sky almost make a church
Obviously, he had been digging, for a small pile of fresh dirt was heaped at his right. Now, however, he was motionless, the blue eyes beneath the long lashes observing the new-comer inquiringly. That was all, save that to the picture was added the background of the unbroken silence of the prairie. The man was the first to break the spell.
A stalwart gentleman, who seemed to be the proprietor, 1ooked up inquiringly, and was not a little puzzled when the visitor supplemented the performance of wiping the right corner of his mouth by three deliberate nods. "What can I do for you to-day?" inquired the gentleman, rising. "You are, I presume, a partner of Mr. Ragem," answered Sapp. "I see he is out.
"Ever notice how much longer these blasted things are when you are sleepy?" he asked. Just as he had finished with one, and had rolled it into a neat ball, a motor cycle came popping into the yard. Buzz looked at Red inquiringly. "Wonder what that is?" he asked. The downstairs front door opened; heavy hobnail shoes sounded on the stairs.
The resemblance is strong. I see my error." "Manuel!" Benton rose unsteadily and stared at the toreador with a face pallid as chalk. He spoke wildly, "Quick, Manuel have you learned anything?" The Spaniard glanced inquiringly at the girl, and as Benton nodded reassurance went on in a lowered voice. Only fragments of his speech reached Cara's ears. Her own thoughts left her too apathetic to listen.
Noticing my gaze directed inquiringly at the partition of glass and varnished wood, Miss Blank was good enough to say, encouragingly: "Only Mr. Jermyn and Mr. Stonor in the parlour with another gentleman I've never seen before." I moved towards the parlour door. "That fellow Wilmot fairly dashed her brains out, and a good job, too!"
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