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"Eh," said Uncle Sylvester absently, "er er oh yes! "Let it be," said Marie pointedly, fixing her black magnetic eyes on the wicked stranger, "let it be something about the DISCOVERY of gold, or a buried TREASURE HOARD, or a robbery." To her intense disgust Uncle Sylvester, far from being discomfited or confused, actually looked pleased, and his gray eyes thawed slightly. "Certainly," he said.
His illness increasing, he landed in Cilicia, and died at Selinus in that country about the end of July, 117. Trajan, who had no children, had continually delayed to settle the succession to the throne, though Pliny, in the "Panegyric" had pointedly drawn his attention to the matter, and it must have caused the Senate much anxiety.
Speak for yourself." "I speak for myself," answered Mr. Lorry, "and for Mr. Darnay, and for Miss Lucie, and Miss Lucie, do you not think I may speak for us all?" He asked her the question pointedly, and with a glance at her father. His face had become frozen, as it were, in a very curious look at Darnay: an intent look, deepening into a frown of dislike and distrust, not even unmixed with fear.
"When do you think you'll go?" demanded Diane pointedly one morning as she deftly swung her line into the river. "Unless you contrive to get stabbed again," she added doubtfully, "I really don't see what's keeping you."
"I'll say it's decent of you damned decent. Blowed if I'd take it as calm as you, if I waked up to find somebody in my room." "I believe," said Lanyard pointedly, "you stipulated for a few minutes' chin with me. Time passes, Mr. Mussey. Get to your business, or let me go to sleep again." "Sharp, you are," commented the mutter. "I've noticed it in you.
It is right to withdraw from a representative account of any transaction such varieties of the routine as occur but seldom: in this way they are more pointedly exposed.
"How did you come here, Daisy?" "I came by the boat, last Friday. How should I come?" "Who are you with?" "Dr. Sandford and Mrs. Sandford." "Mrs. Sandford, and Dr. Sandford," said Preston, pointedly. "You are not with the doctor, I suppose." "Why, yes, I am," I answered. "He is my guardian don't you know, Preston? He brought me. How tall you have grown!" "A parcel of Yankees," said Preston.
"It is an island that he is going to then. I always thought I should not mind marrying him if he would go to a desert island. And so he loved me, really and truly?" "It appears that he did, some time ago" said Brandon, rather pointedly. "Does any one else know," Laura asked, "but you?" "Yes; John Mortimer does." Laura blushed deeply.
If the proprietor or the clergyman find under his own eye isolated instances of severity, oppression, or hardship in a general and salutary law, instead of railing against the law, he ought to attend to the individual instances; and private benevolence ought to keep the balance of the scales even, and be the makeweight wherever there is a just deficiency of national charity.* It was this which, in the modified and discreet regulations that he sought to establish on his estates, Maltravers especially and pointedly attended to.
Her son, slender and tall, and with something of her own eagerness and fire in his sunburned young face, was beside Miss Field, who talked to him in a quiet aside while she busied herself with cups and spoons. "Perfectly safe there!" Isabelle said. "I should hope so!" old Madame Carter remarked, pointedly. "At least if there's any of OUR blood in his veins but of course he's all Slocum.
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