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He does illustration-work the greater part of the night et cetera. 'The way you pile on the agony, my dear! said Lord Findon, rising. 'What I see you want is that I should write the check, and then go with you to call on the young man? 'Precisely! said Eugénie, nodding. Lord Findon looked at her. 'And that you suppose is your own idea? Eugénie waited interrogatively.
I can attend to the case if you leave it to me." "Like you," said John shortly. "Who told you she is a 'case. Mother," he went on addressing that gentle knitter by the fire, "I want you to come downstairs." "She shall do nothing of the kind!" cried Edith, and as Mrs. Sedyard looked interrogatively from one to another of her children, her daughter swept on.
"There are different species of wild goats, then?" said Caspar, interrogatively. "There are," replied the plant-hunter, "though they are not very numerous perhaps in all there may be about a dozen.
Well, snow ain't a bad thing." His dreamy eyes rested on Custer for an instant; they seemed to invite a question. "No?" said Custer interrogatively. "If I was going to murder a man, I don't reckon I'd care to do it when there was snow on the ground." Mrs. Shrimplin here suggested cynically that perhaps he dreaded cold feet, but her husband ignored this.
The Vicar was heard to observe that, on the whole, intermarriage among the Islanders had not produced the disastrous effects usually predicted of it; and that, therefore, an infusion of fresh blood, at some date more or less remote, might reasonably be conjectured, even though incapable of proof. The Vicar, as he said this, looked across at Mrs. Fossell interrogatively.
My wife is engaged for the present, my good friends, so we'll sit down to lunch without her. I will see to that. Champagne shall do its work on Rasper Gasper. Enter MRS. CHARLES NOKES, neatly but cheaply attired. SUSAN rises, bows, and looks toward her interrogatively. Mrs. Charles Nokes. I did not send in my name, madam, because I feared it would but prejudice you against your visitor.
"It is Omar Khayyam set to music, you know" she turned to Grace "from the song cycle, 'In a Persian Garden." "I love it," commented Anne, her eyes dreamy. "Do sing it, David." As Miriam went to the piano the whirr of the electric bell came to their ears. Grace glanced interrogatively at David. "Perhaps it's a telegram," she commented.
Your father is, you fear, a prisoner, and indeed it seems the only explanation of his absence. I do not ask why. I gather that there is no purpose to be served by your sharing his fate." "Free, I may be able to help him. A prisoner, I should...." She stopped, hesitating. "My Lord Brocton?" said I interrogatively. For the second time her face burned, and I saw in it shame and distress and fear.
So I, very narrowly watching him out of half-closed eyes, held up my five fingers interrogatively, and said, 'Cinquante? meaning 'Dare you ask fivepence? At which he and all the peasants around, even including my guide, laughed aloud as at an excellent joke, and said, 'Cinquante, Ho! ho! and dug each other in the ribs.
"Somewhat." "Do you sing?" "A little. I was considered a good singer in Hong-Kong; but that is nothing. I sang in the Cathedral. Langhetti was kind enough to praise me; but then he was so fond of me that whatever I did was right." Brandon was silent for a little while. "Langhetti was fond of you?" he repeated, interrogatively, and in a voice of singular sweetness.
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