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He had no imagination for sensation or melodrama, and the candy affair was touching that line. He had been calmly prosaic with regard to Miss Farrel's death. "They can talk all they want to about murder and suicide," he had said to Sylvia. "I don't believe a word of it." "But the doctors found " began Sylvia. "Found nothing," interposed Henry. "What do doctors know? She et something that hurt her.
"Oh, by the way," interposed the doctor airily, "it has occurred to me that the very object of my visit to-day is right along the lines of what you ask. I want Miss Margaret to go driving with me. I have a call to make out Washington Heights way." "Oh, but " began Margaret, and paused at a gesture from her mother. "There aren't any 'buts' about it," declared Mrs. Whitmore. "Meg shall go."
Sedley, sir, I'm deloighted to be made known te ye. I suppose you'll dine at the mess to-day. "It's the 150th gives us a farewell dinner, my love," interposed the Major, "but we'll easy get a card for Mr. Sedley." Run in a hurry, with Mrs.
The badly wounded were left lying where they had fallen. At Bickerstaff's Old Fields in Rutherford County the frontiersmen halted; and here they selected thirty of their prisoners to be hanged. They swung them aloft, by torchlight, three at a time, until nine had gone to their last account. Then Sevier interposed; and, with Shelby's added authority, saved the other twenty-one.
"My advice," interposed Glumm fiercely, "is that we should make a sudden assault without delay, kill the King, and then sell our lives dearly." "And thus," observed Ulf, with something like a sneer, "leave the girls without protectors, and without a chance of deliverance.
And when I took her to Bowker's the other day, that sick Miss Ellenwood was examining his new French goods, and called my attention to a splendid piece of muslin, and asked if it was not of beautiful texture. 'Dear Miss Ellen-wood, interposed Emma; 'you will not want a figured muslin for a coffin dress. Think of that, Dora."
It isn't a big bank, just a stout one. And now all the others are looking to him for advice. Of course he'll razz me about making a venture in these hazardous times, but it will be worth your time to hear him do it." "How are we to get back from Adot?" asked the midget abruptly of Landy. "I'll take you over and bring you back," interposed Adine Lough.
Don Tiburcio interposed, pleading with them, but they would have come to blows if the alferez had not arrived. "But, señoras!... Don Tiburcio!" "Teach your woman better; buy her better clothes. If you haven't the money, rob the people. You have your soldiers for that!" shouted Doña Victorina. "Señora," said the alferez furiously.
"Ah, but," interposed, more softly, a young wife, holding a child by the hand, "let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart." "What do we talk of marks and brands, whether on the bodice of her gown or the flesh of her forehead?" cried another female, the ugliest as well as the most pitiless of these self-constituted judges.
'Upon compulsion, sir, interposed the locksmith, who felt that the tone in which this was said, conveyed the speaker's impression that he had ample excuse for yielding to the furious multitude who beset and hemmed him in, on every side, and among whom he stood, an old man, quite alone; 'upon compulsion, sir, I'll do nothing.
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