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Phoebe twirled her letter between her fingers and gazed pensively smiling out of the window. There was a long pause, which was finally broken by Rebecca. "What's the letter 'bout, anyway?" she said. "Is it from the guy?" "You mean Sir Guy," said Phoebe, in injured tones. "Oh, well, sir or ma'am! Did he write it?"
He picked up and ate pensively a few crumbs caught in the folds of the knitted jacket on his lap. Ursus turned towards him. "That is not all. Now, a word with you. The mouth is not made only for eating; it is made for speaking. Now that you are warmed and stuffed, you beast, take care of yourself. You are going to answer my questions. Whence do you come?" The child replied, "I do not know."
"Seems like he wasn't feelin' right cheerful, some way." Dan Anderson gazed after the teamster pensively. "Methinks you are concealing something from us, Tom," said he. "Let's go find out what it is, fellows."
Then, as they neared again on the second round, the words came pensively: "Her beauty was so-o-old For an old man's go-o-old, She's a bird in a gilded ca-a-age." Thurston rode slowly like one in a dream, and the lure of the range-land was strong upon him.
"Oh, no, John," she responded, "you shouldn't eat anything so heavy for breakfast." I insisted. "The fact is," she said, pensively, "I couldn't have eaten any more of that ham, and so I gave it to Julius." When a mere boy, I saw a young colored man, who had spent several years in school, sitting in a common cabin in the South, studying a French grammar.
I recollect," Becky continued pensively, "my father took me to see a show at Brookgreen Fair when I was a child, and when we came home, I made myself a pair of stilts and danced in the studio to the wonder of all the pupils." "I should have liked to see it," said Lord Steyne. "I should like to do it now," Becky continued. "How Lady Blinkey would open her eyes, and Lady Grizzel Macbeth would stare!
The silence tightened on his memories, and no one spoke until Miriam said, almost gently, "Please tell us some more." "The pews were a bright yellow, and looked sticky. The roof was painted blue, with stars. There was a man in a black gown with special knowledge on the subject of sin." "That," Miriam said pensively, "must have been amusing." "No. Only dreary and somehow rather unclean.
"But I did think that you understood us," she said pensively. "Miss La Heu, when you talked to me about the President and the White House, I said that you were hard to answer. Do you remember?" "Perfectly. I said I was glad you found me so. "You helped me to understand you then, and now I want to be helped to further understanding.
Jope sprang in beside me, and leaning out of the farther window, waved his neckerchief for a while, then pensively readjusted it, and called to the driver "St. Budeaux!" The driver, after a moment, turned heavily in his seat, and answered, "Nonsense!" "I tell ye, I want to drive to St. Budeaux, by Saltash Ferry." "And I tell you, 'Get out! St. Budeaux? The idea!" "Why, what's wrong with St.
Miss Jones said that now they were here she might as well call upon Miss Andrews, the sister of the Mellot farmer. Miss Andrews had promised her some ducks' eggs. They pushed open the farm gate, passed across the yard and knocked on the house door. Near Mary was a large barn with a heavy door, now ajar. Hamlet sat gazing pensively at a flock of geese, his tongue out, panting contentedly.
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