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Her use of violent perfumes is thus a double offence. "There is something more serious," said Miss Griggs. "I can hardly believe there can be anything more serious than making one's self detestable to one's fellow-creatures," said I. "Unless it is making one's self too agreeable," said Miss Griggs, pointedly. I asked her what she meant.
"What will you do, then?" inquired Jim, pointedly. "Just what I please, and not a thing besides," replied Percy, with equal directness. The others exchanged looks, but Jim said no more. The greater part of the afternoon was devoted to setting the lobster-traps.
We draw attention to this so pointedly at the outset, because it is altogether inconsistent and wide of our purpose in making a quiet, and we may add, economical, visit to Normandy, to do, as is the general custom with travellers spend half their time and most of their money in Paris.
Then she sulked, and reproached her mother with the flat and unprofitable summer that had followed her return from school, and asked pointedly if the coming winter was to be like it. "Ha!" exclaimed the poor woman to herself; "Lyddy is to blame for this; I wish she had never mentioned New York!"
"Are we to attribute the mystery that so long hung over your birth- place, to this fact," Eve asked, a little pointedly. "If I have made any seeming mystery, as to the place of my birth, it has been involuntary on my part, Miss Effingham, so far as you, at least, have been concerned.
The open sash was filled by a straw hat which formed the frame for a broad, smiling countenance. "Want any help?" the visitor inquired, genially. "No, thank you," answered the doctor, adding, pointedly: "You have other work to do, you know." "Oh, I ain't worryin' about that," responded his man-servant, reassuringly. "Old Doc.
And so as he, Pierre, before going off with Francois, approached Bertheroy to wish him good day, he pointedly remarked: "Guillaume will be very sorry that he was unable to hear you unfold those admirable ideas." The old /savant/ smiled. "Pooh!" said he; "just give him a summary of what I said. He will understand. He knows more about the matter than I do."
It set Paul back into the stream of his argument. He forgot Barney Bill and Jane, and went on with his speech, pointedly addressing the young, telling them what England was, what England is, what Englishmen, if they are true to England, shall be.
'There's truth there, if nowhere else, cried Helen pointedly. 'Papa, if you have stumbled on a real gold mine at last, aren't you wise enough this time to keep still about it? 'That word "stumbled," my dear, Longstreet told her with great dignity, 'is extremely offensive to me at a moment like this.
The junior partner entered with a melancholy visage and a reproachful eye. "Oh, you've come at last," he remarked, too quietly to be rude, too pointedly to be pleasant. But his father seemed not to have heard. "Sit down, sit down," he said; and then in an earnest manner and with the gravest face began, "I've something to tell you, Andrew, that I think you ought to know." Andrew's visage relaxed.
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