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Then he continued musingly, "You'll find Gertrude different. I can't quite imagine her presiding over your moral welfare but I think she'll be good at it. She's a good deal of a person, you know." "Aunt Beulah's a good kind of person, too," Eleanor said; "she tries hard. The only thing is that she keeps trying to make me express myself, and I don't know what that means."
But, do you know I'm so nervous over this game that I'm afraid I'll lie awake and toss until morning, and then I won't be much more use than a wet dishrag, as far as my nerve is concerned." "I feel pretty nearly the same as you do, Andy. Let's sit up a while and talk. I s'pose, though, if we ever make the varsity we'll laugh at the way we're acting now." "Oh, I don't know," spoke Andy musingly.
"So, so! on the road, are they?" cried Clifford, musingly, and without heeding the insinuated attack on his decorum. "But answer me, what is the plan? Be quick!" "Why," replied the dame, "there's some swell cove of a lord gives a blow- out to-day; and the lads, dear souls! think to play the queer on some straggler."
"It must have been a very extensive bankrupt stock you acquired," said the clergyman musingly. "And were all the applicants clergymen like myself?" "Nearly all." "Dear me, how sad to think how many there are to whom such an opportunity is a godsend! We are sadly underpaid, many of us, Mr Reginald, and are apt to envy you gentlemen of business your comfortable means.
"Why should they wish to part that child from him I wonder!" said Aubrey musingly. Cyrillon shrugged his shoulders. "Who can tell! They have their reasons, no doubt. Why should they wish to excommunicate Tolstoi? But they do! Believe me, there is a time of terror coming for the religious world especially in your great English Empire. And when your good Queen dies, the trouble will begin!"
"His fire! Ah, that is her greatest charm! Those strange eyes of hers, they seem full of tragedies. She looks made to be the heroine of some stormy romance; and yet how simply patient and good she is!" "Yes," said Ferris, who often responded in English to the priest's Italian; and he added half musingly in his own tongue, after a moment, "but I don't think it would be safe to count upon her.
That was all." "Not hurt, I hope?" "Oh no! They never get hurt seriously hurt, I mean. As to black-and-blue shins, scratches, cuts, and bumps, they may be said to exist in a perpetually maimed condition." "Strange!" said I musingly, "that they should like to play at such a disagreeable subject." "Disagreeable!" exclaimed my friend, "pooh! that's nothing.
"I am, indeed, most grateful to Sir George, and truly never did any one stand more in need of counsel than I do." This was said half musingly, and not intended to be heard. "Then, pray, consult papa," said she, eagerly; "he is much attached to you, and will, I am certain, do all in his power " "Alas! I fear not, Miss Dashwood." "Why, what can you mean. Has anything so serious occurred?"
"High mass!" said the man in black; "however," he continued, after a pause, "I will be frank with you; I came to be so; I may have heard high mass on a time, and said it too, but as for any predilection for it, I assure you I have no more than for a long High Church sermon." "You speak a la Margutte?" said I. "Margutte!" said the man in black, musingly, "Margutte?"
"How Trevanion is altered!" said Roland, musingly, "he who was so lively and ardent!" "He ran too fast up-hill at first, and has been out of breath ever since," said my father. "And Lady Ellinor," said Roland, hesitatingly, "shall you see her to-morrow?" "Yes!" said my father, calmly.
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