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Lloyd had never seen her before, except when she was singing hymns, or sitting with meekly folded hands through sermon-time. It was almost as surprising to find that she was inquisitive and interested in human happenings as it would have been to discover that the ivy-covered belfry kept an eye on her. In the midst of her description of the picnic, Mrs.
The timid looked upon it phenomenon predictive of some calamity; the inquisitive formed a thousand conjectures; while some, curious in natural history, actually accounted for it by a gale of wind in the north blowing wild-fowl feathers from the island of St. Paul’s.’ On another occasion he got into an old trunk, which the family had agreed to get rid of as inconvenient in the house.
"Cherchez la h'm?" queried Thorndyke, with an exasperating grin. "Yes," I answered, turning as red as a pickled cabbage; "since you are so beastly inquisitive. Miss Gibson wrote, on behalf of Mrs. Hornby, asking me to dine with them en famille to-morrow evening, and I sent off an acceptance an hour ago." "And you call that 'nothing of any importance'!" exclaimed Thorndyke.
The spiny lobsters are large, their eyes are startlingly prominent, their powerful antennæ are longer and redder than Coomara's nose, and wave about in an inquisitive and somewhat threatening manner. We witnessed such a conclave, sitting in a close circle, face to face, waving their long antennæ; and as we watched, from the shadowy caves above another merrow appeared.
Verily, I know not how my father could bear to look at those dumb fragments of himself, strata of the Caxtonian conformation lying layer upon layer, as if packed up and disposed for the inquisitive genius of some moral Murchison or Mantell. But for my part, I never glanced at their repose in the dark lobby without thinking, "Courage, Pisistratus! courage!
"Bunch of coyotes comin'," he explained. Suddenly the quietness split to a chorus of snappy, high-strung, strange barks. They sounded wild, yet they held something of a friendly or inquisitive note. Presently gray forms could be descried just at the edge of the circle of light. Soft rustlings of stealthy feet surrounded the camp, and then barks and yelps broke out all around.
When we came very close to any of them, they would survey us with an air half angry, and half inquisitive, stretching out their long necks; and screwing their heads from side to side, so as to obtain a view of us first with one eye, and then with the other; this seeming to be considered indispensable to a complete and satisfactory understanding of our character and intentions.
'I, she said, 'am altogether guilty before him. 'I, she said, 'was not able to appreciate him. 'He, she said, 'is an angel, not a mere man, I can assure you that's what she said 'an angel. She is so penitent I do solemnly declare I have never seen any one so penitent." "But tell me, Maria Dmitrievna," said Lavretsky, "if I may be allowed to be so inquisitive.
'You're very wet, she said. George glanced down at his soaked clothes. It had been a nice suit once. 'Hadn't you better hurry back and change into something dry? Looking round about him, George perceived that sundry of the inquisitive were swooping down, with speculation in their eyes. It was time to depart. 'Have you far to go? 'Not far. I'm staying at the Beach View Hotel.
The running down, by her private steamer, of a few more inquisitive yachts in the Solent would be a hazardous experiment, if temporarily effective in keeping home invaders at bay.
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