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"I do not want to leave you " "Can you seriously mean it?" "Very well," said Julie, "since you wish it." The carriage disappeared. "So you are very fond of my poor Victor?" said the Marquise, interrogating her niece with one of those sagacious glances which dowagers give younger women. "Alas, madame!" said Julie, "must one not love a man well indeed to marry him?"
Mary stood helpless in the wilderness while quilts and pillows were fetched somewhere from the adjacent scenery, and Mrs. Yellett asked her, with the gravity of a Pullman porter interrogating a passenger as to the location of head and foot, if she liked to sleep "light or dark."
"Are you going, my son?" said the queen, whilst Mazarin satisfied himself with interrogating by a look which might have appeared mild if it had not been so piercing. "Yes, madame," replied the king; "I am fatigued, and, besides, wish to write this evening." A smile stole over the lips of the minister, who appeared, by a bend of the head, to give the king permission.
'They are not much accustomed to be interrogated by others, and seem never to have thought upon interrogating themselves; so that if they do not know what they tell to be true, they likewise do not distinctly perceive it to be false. Mr.
At the end of the first stage he is delivered over, with certain benevolent formalities, to the guards of the next, who, after interrogating the traveller as to the usage he had received in his journey, dismiss the first guard with a written certificate of their behavior, and a receipt for the traveller and his effects; which certificate and receipt are returnable to the commanding officer of the first stage, who registers the same, and regularly reports it to the rajah.
The Queen so little imagined what could have given rise to the intrigue, of which she was about to become the victim, that, at the moment when the King was interrogating the Cardinal, a terrific idea entered her mind.
She said: "You-uns was blowed up in yon channel. And you lost your boat, ain't you?" "Crickey!" gasped Torry to Whistler. "She's a German a German with a southern accent! What do you know about that?" Meanwhile Mr. MacMasters was interrogating her to some purpose. "Have you seen others of our party?" he asked. "There were fourteen men and boys on a raft."
He thus arrived at Perth by breakfast-time; spent the whole day in passing from cell to cell of the many hundred prisoners there confined, interrogating each of them, and taking notes of anything requiring notice; and reached home not till nearly midnight, yet never appearing at all fatigued.
A coil of hair had loosened itself; she put it right; and still stood motionless, interrogating herself in a proud concentration. "Well? I am quite ready for him." But her heart beat uncomfortably fast as the door opened, and Mark Winnington entered.
"I thought I had left school after the Christmas holidays," said Rose, interrogating the world in an abstract fashion. She was herself again on the instant, carrying her funny little crumpled nose well in the air. "It is dreadful," said May, with a half-suppressed sob, "and he was so good-natured. He promised only last week to get Rose and me a fox-terrier puppy."
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