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She approached with a smile, and heaven knows what agitation in her breast at the sight of a handsome well-dressed young man in her lonely nest. "You wished to see me?" she asked. "Mrs. Pursill?" he said interrogatively. She made a negative sign. "I am Miss Pursill. My mother is an invalid." "I am most anxious to see her." "My mother keeps to her bedroom."
As I stepped out on deck I heard Henderson's voice close at my elbow, although the man himself was invisible. "Sorry to have been obliged to disturb you, Mr Delamere," he said, "but something's happened that I thought you ought to know about." "Yes?" I remarked interrogatively. "Well, what was it, Henderson?" "Well, it's like this here, sir," he replied.
"Silence, monsieur. I call upon you, explicitly, to moderate your tone and pay proper deference to my authority." With this the commissary pulled out a drawer, extracted a tricolour sash and slowly buckled it round his waist, then once more turned interrogatively to the sergeant: "It is nothing very serious, M. le Commissaire," said the treacherous gendarme.
Captain Caldwell raised his eyebrows interrogatively. "When you pick them in the sun, and put them against your cheek, they're all warm, you know," Beth explained; "and then they are good! And fuchsias are good too, but it isn't the same good.
"He may come," answered Madeleine, in a tone of suppressed emotion. "I will tell him that he may be here in an hour?" said Gaston interrogatively, for he saw the mighty struggle Madeleine was making to control herself, and thoughtfully desired to give her some little time for preparation. Madeleine bowed her head in acquiescence. Gaston had too much delicacy to prolong the conversation.
When the last note had died away among the cavities of the mountain, he exclaimed: "God bless me! but I think your liver is out of order." Roland started and looked at him interrogatively. But seeing that Sir John did not intend to say more, he asked: "Good! What makes you think so?" "You are too noisily gay not to be profoundly melancholy." "And that anomaly astonishes you?"
I have no fears for her future if she marries the right man." "Indeed, mamma," said Amy, "I wish she would keep more strictly within the limit of the proprieties. She makes me nervous all the time we are together." "My dear, you never heard her breathe a really unbecoming word or saw her do an immodest thing?" said my mother interrogatively. "Oh no, of course not," said Amy. "They say Mrs.
"And you are the gentleman, I dare say, who made the necessary trips to the ambassador's house, probably using his latch-key?" he remarked interrogatively. "First for the letters to be signed, and again for the cigarettes?" There was no answer and Mr. Grimm turned questioningly to Monsieur Boisségur, silent, white of face, motionless. "Yes, Monsieur," the ambassador burst out suddenly.
She understood that he appealed to the days at Mellor, and her lips quivered. "No," she exclaimed, almost timidly "I try to think the best. I see the pressure was great." "And consider, please," he said proudly, "what the reasons were for that pressure." She looked at him interrogatively a sudden softness in her eyes.
Gall made his usual half military salute as he came up, and the man in plain clothes raised his hat politely. "The gentleman from Lunnon, sir," said Gall by way of introduction, assuming an air of mysterious importance. "Yes?" said Mr. Juxon interrogatively. "Do you wish to speak to me?" "The gentleman's come on business, sir. In point of fact, sir, it's the case we was speakin' of lately."
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