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In her present tension of mind any delay, even of the shortest, seemed unbearable. The murmur of voices sounded from without, then Erskine stepped back into the room, and addressed himself pointedly to Claire, but without using her name. "Would you come out just for two minutes? It's some plan for to- morrow."
Raoul did not mix in the general conversation; he devoted himself pointedly to the amusement of his cousin, explaining to him the point of the anecdotes circulated, or hitting off in terse sentences the characters of the talkers. Enguerrand was evidently of temper more vivacious than his brother, and contributed freely to the current play of light gossip and mirthful sally.
"And if you don't," said Mr. Manning, "I suppose you expect me to defray your expenses?" "If I did have such an expectation, I think I should be justified, in view of the large property which my mother left," said Frank, pointedly. "She left it to me," said his stepfather. "So it appears, at any rate. But I shall not call upon you to pay my board.
West looked at him with a frown. "Yes; in a search for my own stock," he said. "But I found neither that nor any deed to the Bogue property. I am not a thief, Major Doyle." "You stole the keys, though," said Louise, pointedly. "I did not even do that," said West. "On the day of the funeral Joe carelessly left them lying upon a table, so I slipped them into my pocket.
She saw what Drouet liked; in vague way she saw where he was weak. It lessens a woman's opinion of a man when she learns that his admiration is so pointedly and generously distributed. She sees but one object of supreme compliment in this world, and that is herself. If a man is to succeed with many women, he went he must be all in all to each.
By good fortune, Dr. Clibborn was a man of shrewd common sense, as well as a physician of no mean skill. In the brief conversation we held together, I perceived, that while he paid all requisite attention to any detail which implied the existence of malady, his questions were more pointedly directed to the possibility of some mental cause of irritation, the source of my ailment.
Folks round here don't know the man as I do, but they've good reason to believe the money will go to his creditors, and there'll be nothing left for him." "The foreclosure won't meet with general favor," George said pointedly. "That doesn't count.
"Never fooled little George W. Me. Knew it the very first second. Went over me just like that." "Oh, I'm no king; never was a king; rabbit, I guess. Little old perfectly upstart rabbit, that's what!" "What am I?" asked the flapper pointedly. "Little old flippant flapper, that's what! But you're my Chubbins just the same; my Chubbins!" and he very softly put his hand to her cheek.
He summed up their chances and their danger calmly and pointedly, as he always looked at troubling things. And Dolores felt her heart sinking within her. After all, she had not handled the situation any too well. She almost wished she had killed Rydal herself and called it self-defense. At least she had been criminally negligent in not smuggling along a rifle.
I have nothing to do with any deceptions that may have been practiced on my parent, said Miss Pecksniff, pointedly; 'and as I wish to be on good terms with everybody at such a time, I should have been glad if you would have favoured us with your company at breakfast. But I will not ask you as it is; seeing that you have been prepossessed and set against me in another quarter.
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