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It was a day of failures; and at four o'clock he returned to the office and inscribed, upon the credit side of his unique little day-book, the laconic entry: "April 28. Two flivvers. $0." Loring, pausing behind him and looking over his shoulder, smiled and added a climax. "Jacobs attached your account at the Garfield Bank to-day on that fifty-thousand-dollar note."
His lordship thought at one time of entering into an explanation, telling Mr. Jawleyford the damage Sponge had done him, and the nuisance he was entailing upon him by harbouring him; but not being a great scholar, and several hard words turning up that his lordship could not well clear in the spelling, he just confined himself to a laconic, which, as it turned out, was a most fortunate course.
"It is farther to the towns of the Big-knives," was the laconic reply. "Why is a Pawnee-Loup so far from the fork of his own river, without a horse to journey on, and in a spot empty as this?" "Can the women and children of a Pale-face live without the meat of the bison? There was hunger in my lodge."
English servants, in general, are not treated with great indulgence, nor rewarded by many commendations; for the English are laconic and reserved towards their domestics; but an approving nod and kind word from master or mistress, goes as far here, as an excess of praise or indulgence elsewhere.
His reserved, laconic disposition had stood him in good stead, and the arduous forced labor seemed to have inflicted little injury on his robust frame. The exultation of victory, the joy of success, had taken full possession of Ephraim and his youthful band; but when the sun set and there was still no sign of Hur and his band, Nun and his followers were seized with anxiety.
"Say the word, monsieur," was Reuben's laconic but significant reply. "Well, then, it is said. Come back here after dinner with Lawrence, and I will give you instructions: you shall start to-morrow at daybreak." Reuben bowed and left the hall with a light step.
He was no novice at flying, and had even operated aeroplanes himself, though at no great height. Suddenly the Hawk seemed to falter, almost as does a bird stricken by a hunter's gun. The craft seemed to hang in the air, losing motion as though about to plunge to earth unguided. "What's the matter?" cried Mr. Damon. "One of the control wires broken!" was Tom's laconic answer.
This laconic message struck her like a blow. It was as if Douglass himself had refused her outstretched hand. Her nerves, tense and quivering, gave way. Her resentment flamed up again. "Very well." She tore the note in small pieces, slowly, with painful precision, as if by so doing she were tearing and blowing away the great passion which had grown up in her heart. "I was mistaken in you.
"No, monsieur. They have an Englishman." It was as if I had struck him. He stepped back, and his face grew dull red. "A spy?" I shook my head. I could feel my blood pumping hard, but I answered by rote. "Not by the Huron's story." The commandant snapped his fingers. "That for his story! As idle as wind in the grass!" he snorted. "But what did he say?" I grew as laconic as the Huron.
ONE day in the first week of January Martini, who had sent round the forms of invitation to the monthly group-meeting of the literary committee, received from the Gadfly a laconic, pencil-scrawled "Very sorry: can't come." He was a little annoyed, as a notice of "important business" had been put into the invitation; this cavalier treatment seemed to him almost insolent.
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