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"I was professionally engaged on a certain matter about which you will not wish me to particularise since it is the business of a client and in course of it I came upon the other affair." "Then before I ask what you know of that mysterious event, Mr. Hewitt, I will tell you my story, so that you may judge whether you are able to reveal anything, or to do anything.
'The doctor says you're still suffering from nervous shock; she answered in a toneless voice, professionally. 'Still, very soon I shan't need any attendance that a valet or a housekeeper couldn't give me, shall I? 'No, I suppose not. 'Well, my dear Miss Clay of course, I shall hate you to go, he said politely, 'but don't you think we ought to be thinking He stopped.
Sir Joseph with a certain simple dignity which had its effect on both of them declined to hear a word on either side. "No, Richard! as long as I am alive this is my business, not yours. No, Mr. Dicas! I understand that it is your business to protest professionally. You have protested. Fill in the blank space as I have told you.
A woman of my day, unless professionally accustomed to use this sort of costume, would have seemed embarrassed and ill at ease, at least for a time, under a gaze so intent as mine, even though it were a brother's or a father's.
The class to which I refer, consists of those members of the community at large, who gain their livelihood by inserting their hands into the pockets of other people, not but that all the world are doing the same thing, and have, since the creation; but then it is only as amateurs the class that I refer to, do it professionally, which, you must observe, makes a wide difference.
Carew is delighted with you, not so much because you saved his stags as because you fought such a good battle with him by the Decoy Pond. He has been consulting me professionally as to whether it would be contrary to the tables of affinity to have another set-to with you.
Is it any wonder that facile success and excessive laudation should turn the stripling's head? Professionally, if not artistically speaking, Dore passed straight from child to man; in one sense of the word he had no boyhood, the term tyro remained inapplicable.
Probably, in the coyness of a woman who had recognized the lover in his looks and language, Miss Forrest had tacitly admitted his claim to be regarded as such by summoning another, not a lover, to attend her professionally. If this hypothesis proved correct he would have some grounds for hope. Two things, however, he greatly desired to know before taking the plunge. First, was it possible that Mr.
In fact, if we view with an unprejudiced eye this Hellenistic literature of the sixth century that poetry followed out professionally and destitute of all productiveness of its own, that uniform imitation of the very shallowest forms of foreign art, that repertoire of translations, that changeling of epos we are tempted to reckon it simply one of the diseased symptoms of the epoch before us.
As the spring drew on, and days grew gentle, and soft weather replaced the strong brace of the winter frost, my condition of health became more and more unsatisfactory. My mother grew seriously uneasy at length and consulted Dr. Sandford. And the next thing was Dr. Sandford's appearance at our hotel. "What is the matter with you, Daisy?" he asked, very professionally. Mamma was out when he came.
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