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"I can assure you, sir, at any rate, that if there is a shoe in that cupboard now, there will be a shoe there when you return." Mr. Downing stalked out of the room. "But," added Psmith pensively to himself, as the footsteps died away, "I did not promise that it would be the same shoe." He took the key from his pocket, unlocked the cupboard, and took out the shoe.
I have seven on hand now, and barely time to read my own, said Mrs Jo, pensively fishing a small letter out of the slop-bowl and opening it with care, because the down-hill address suggested that a child wrote it. 'I will answer this myself. A little sick girl wants a book, and she shall have it, but I can't write sequels to all the rest to please her.
"That is what one should always do, I suppose," said she, still with an air of deep thoughtfulness which encouraged me to inquire "May I ask if anyone to your knowledge has ever said anything to Mr. Reuben's disadvantage?" She pondered for some time before replying, and kept her eyes bent pensively on the ground. At length she said, not without some hesitation of manner
Iakchos!" the voices about her shouted, and it sounded as gleeful as though the breasts of the revelers were overflowing with gladness; and as the scented curls of Diodoros bent over her head, as his hand closed on hers, and his whispered words of love were in her ear, she murmured: "Alexander is right; the world is a banqueting-hall, and life is fair." "So fair!" echoed the youth, pensively.
"Who would have thought," murmured Gerald, pensively sucking the brush and gazing at the paper mask he had just painted, "that she was such a brick in disguise? I wonder why crimson lake always tastes just like Liebig's Extract." Everything was pleasant that day somehow.
Social people in other gondolas began to ask each other who the little solitary girl was whom they passed, sitting in her boat with folded hands, looking so pensively and wonderingly about her. Never thinking that it would be worth anybody's while to notice her or her doings, Little Dorrit, in her quiet, scared, lost manner, went about the city none the less.
"God grant that this be not another pit for further fruitless bloodshed!" was the interjection standing in Georgiana's eyes, and then she dropped them pensively, while Merthyr recounted the patient schemes that had led to this hour, the unuttered anxieties and the bursting hopes. Still Emilia kept her distressfully unenthusiastic looks turned from one to the other, though her Italy was the theme.
"It is not that you inspire me with confidence exactly," she went on pensively; "you are quite a stranger to me. But your position and mine are very similar. We are both alike unhappy; that is a bond between us." "Are you unhappy?" Nejdanov asked. "And you, are you not?" Mariana asked in her turn. Nejdanov did not say anything. "Do you know my story?" she asked quickly.
"Then," said Hugh dreamily, "I have a few other little methods of work, though so trivial and so essentially personal I don't know whether you would find them worth mentioning." "Oh, anything, anything, Mr. Kinross, if you will be so kind," said Miss Bibby enthusiastically. "Well," said Hugh, looking pensively around his work-room, "I am a man of rather curious habits.
They even laughed occasionally, for the girls, in their ignorance, asked queer questions; Tom made ludicrously unbusiness-like propositions; and Maud gave them one hearty peal, that did a world of good, by pensively remarking, when the plans for the future had been explained to her, "I 'm so relieved; for when papa said we must give up everything, and mamma called us all beggars, I did think I 'd got to go round asking for cold vittles, with a big basket, and an old shawl over my head.
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