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She was fearful lest the young man leading his pony on the foot-track at her side should think her a baby and over-keen. Once only he spoke to her, and that clearly with the difficulty of the shy. "What shall you cuc-call her?" he asked. "I don't know," she answered. She longed to help him, but when the chance came she could only snub him.
Saltash laughed carelessly, flicking the ash from his cigarette. "I'll tell you that when I can show you the finished article. I'm keeping him below for the present. He's got a prize-fighter's eye which is not exactly an ornament. Like to have a look at him? You're ship's doctor." Larpent shrugged his shoulders. "P'raps I'd better. I'm not over-keen on sudden importations.
She was not over-keen about riding with Van first, because he was in love with her; and secondly, in spite of that, she could not beat him when he rode the King. They were training Bostil's horses for the much-anticipated races.
"You are very wise," she declared. "Mr. Lessingham is a most fascinating person. We are all half in love with him even Helen." "The fellow must have a way with him," Sir Henry conceded grudgingly. "As a rule the people here are not over-keen on strangers, unless they have immediate connections in the neighbourhood.
He found Rutton precisely as he had left him, his very attitude an unuttered question. "No," Amber told him, "he'd made a quick getaway. The marks of his feet were plain enough, outside the window, but he was gone, and ... somehow I wasn't over-keen to follow him up." "Right," said the elder man dejectedly. "I might have known Chatterji would not have come alone. So my crime was futile."
The grub eats its way through the fruit to the stem and the apple falls to the ground. But the dainty beetle chooses the strongest and soundest for its brood, otherwise too many of the strong ones would be allowed to live, and competition would become over-keen. The hour of twilight, the gathering dusk, arouses the passionate instincts of the beast-world.
Are you the actual property of another man?" She shook her head with baffling promptitude. "I guess I'm just Death's property, Big Bear," she said, with a wistful little smile. "But he doesn't seem over-keen on having me." "Stop!" said Merefleet harshly. "I won't have you talk like that. It's madness. Tell me what you mean!" "I can't," Mab said. "I can't tell you. It wouldn't be fair.
"I cannot remember, sir, that its edge was ever over-keen," replied Lambourne. "When I was a youth, I had some few whimsies; but I rubbed them partly out of my recollection on the rough grindstone of the wars, and what remained I washed out in the broad waves of the Atlantic." "Thou hast served, then, in the Indies?"
Like my oldest and one of my dearest friends on the turf, Lord Falmouth, I never made a bet after the time I speak of. No one who lives in the world needs any description of the Tattersall's of to-day. But the Tattersall's of my earlier days was not exactly the same thing, although the differences would not be recognizable to persons who have not over-keen recollections.
When Eve heard that the Cointets meant to spoil her poor little speculation, dread seized upon her; at first she tried to see a proof of attachment in Cerizet's hypocritical warning of competition; but before long she saw signs of an over-keen curiosity in her sole compositor the curiosity of youth, she tried to think.
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