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But if she were not about to destroy herself, why this untimely flight to London? It was a mystery, a tragic and perplexing mystery. They passed by the pond in silence, crossed the common and reached the main road. "I wish I knew what to do, Emmy," he said at last. "I hate forcing my company upon you, and yet I feel I should be doing wrong to leave you unprotected.
A naturalist's office is sometimes very perplexing, I assure you; and as we are touching on this subject, I cannot resist telling you that the sea-cow laid claim to, on so many sides, had by right a free admission to the celebrated order of Primates, although it looks exactly like a large barrel elongated at the two ends.
On the afternoon of the fourth day Sir Patrick came in from a drive, and found a letter from Arnold waiting for him, which had been delivered by the second post. Judged by externals only, it was a letter of an unusually perplexing possibly also of an unusually interesting kind.
I thought that I should have a large fortune, and I I am afraid that I have been very extravagant: but now I do not know what I shall do." Mr. Cutler saw that she was in a very perplexing situation, and she seemed so crushed by it that all his tenderest sympathies were enlisted.
Taking his offered arm, they walked back toward the spot where she had desired her companions to await her return, and as he attempted to analyze the strange perplexing expression on her chiselled white face, he said: "I trust this delicious climate has fully restored your health?" "Thank you. I am as well as I hope to be, until I can go home to America, and be once more with my baby."
For instance, on that very important, but at the time most perplexing, question, 'How should the Church deal with the irregular but most valuable efforts of the Wesleys and Whitefield and their fellow-labourers? it would have been most desirable for the clergy to have taken counsel together in their own proper assembly.
Under those circumstances common plants become really capricious that is, being ruled by no principles easy to grasp and immutable in operation, their discomfort shows itself in perplexing forms. But such species of orchids as a poor man would think of growing are incapable of pranks.
But, above all, does not every anecdote of scandal which has passed, not through ten lips, but perhaps through ten thousand, before it has reached us, become quite as perplexing to him who would get at the truth, as the marvels he recounts are to the bewildered reason of Fenwick the Sceptic? The dead man's manuscript was gone. But how?
I want to see you very much. Then Uncle Eb hurried upstairs and I came away. I read the advertisements of board and lodging a perplexing task for one so ignorant of the town. After many calls I found a place to my liking on Monkey Hill, near Printing House Square. Monkey Hill was the east end of William Street, and not in the least fashionable.
"Shore lots goin' on an' no mistake," put in Lem Harden. Probably the keen Beasley had never before considered Milt Dale as a responsible person; certainly never one in any way to cross his trail. But on the instant, perhaps, some instinct was born, or he divined an antagonism in Dale that was both surprising and perplexing.
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