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Have the convicts appeared in the neighborhood? Reply by Top." This laconic note contained all that Neb ought to know, and at the same time asked all that the colonists wished to know. It was folded and fastened to Top's collar in a conspicuous position. "Top, my dog," said the engineer, caressing the animal, "Neb, Top! Neb! Go, go!" Top bounded at these words.
Sheer invention! Fortunately Maggie had been well drilled by her father in the manner proper to women in accepting announcements connected with `business. And Edwin was just as laconic and mysterious as Darius had been about `business. It was a word that ended arguments, or prevented them. On the Friday he had said that he should go in the afternoon.
Then there is a popular education toward prolixity in the telegraphic part of newspapers. The associated press writers from Washington seem to be selected for their inability to be terse and pithy, and dribble out the simplest fact with pitiful iteration. The special news-writers, being often at their wits' end for their dole of day's work, can hardly be asked to be laconic.
It was not, however, advisable to proceed against him with the laconic brevity adopted towards Brederode and the like; on the other hand, the voluntary resignation of all his offices, which he tendered, did not meet the object of the regent, who foresaw clearly enough how really dangerous he would become, as soon as he should feel himself independent, and be no longer checked by any external considerations of character or duty in the prosecution of his secret designs.
At the same time the herald of this message, as fraught with large significance as it was laconic, turned on the electric light. Frederick jumped to a sitting posture, and was annoyed by the water from the leaky pipe, which ran now from one side of the room to the other, as the vessel lurched.
It may be said of him that, like the conquering Tartars, he measures his self-attributed grandeur by what he fells; no other has so extensively swept away fortunes, liberties and lives; no other has so terrifically heightened the effect of his deeds by laconic speech and the suddenness of the stroke.
When it had been with tall, cold, stately Dr. Pell, Toole was ceremonious and deliberate, and oppressively polite. On the other hand, when he had been shut up with brusque, half-savage, energetic Doctor Rogerson, Tom was laconic, decisive, and insupportably ill-bred, till, as we have said, the mirage melted away, and he gradually acquiesced in his identity.
However he was vainly prodigal of words, and unsparing in unpleasant allusions, so that at last he fairly lost his temper, and, on receiving a laconic reply, he burst forth: "Upon my word, the butler's son would say the same as you! What blood have you in your veins? You are more like one of the people than a Viscount de Commarin!"
"Walked," was Jimmy Blaise's laconic answer. "They haven't had to carry me on a stretcher at least not lately." "Oh, you know what I mean," said Franz. "I mean, did you ask to be transferred from your station to this trench?" "No, and that's the funny part of it," said Roger Barlow.
"Trouble outside," was Don's laconic statement. He and Billie drew the revolvers they had captured the night before. "Put 'em up," advised Adrian. "We're not here to fight." "We might have to," from Billie. "Not at all. If one side wins, we are safe. If the other side wins, we are prisoners and the attackers will be our rescuers." "Great head, Ad," was Billie's comment.
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