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His wonder that his wife's "clapper" could ever be stopped is expressed in the same breath with his real sorrow at hearing of her death. "Then who the devil am I?" he asks with infinite wit just before he pulls away at the heartstrings of the audience in refusing the proffered assistance to his tottering steps.
Once in his room the doctor lighted the lamp and then locked the door. "What's all the mystery and hush stuff?" growled Daniels, and with a gesture he refused the proffered chair. "Cut loose, doc, and make it short."
Bordered on three sides by the sea, its broad and winding extent of coast early conduced to the spirit of enterprise; and, by innumerable bays and harbours, proffered every allurement to that desire of gain which is the parent of commerce and the basis of civilization.
Denys found a figure seated by the well. It was Manon; but instead of receiving him as he thought he had a right to expect, coming by invitation, all she did was to sob. He asked her what ailed her? She sobbed. Could he do anything for her? She sobbed. The good-natured Denys, driven to his wits' end, which was no great distance, proffered the custom of the country by way of consolation.
Lord James stepped before him, with hand outstretched. "One moment, Tom! Here's for home and America a fair field, and best man wins!" "It's a go!" cried Blake, gripping the proffered hand. "May she get the one that'll make her happiest!"
I have said time after time that I am a friend of England, and your Press or, at least, a considerable section of it bids the people of England refuse my proffered hand, and insinuates that the other holds a dagger. How can I convince a nation against its will?" "I repeat," continued his Majesty, "that I am the friend of England, but you make things difficult for me. My task is not of the easiest.
However, with the other women, they accepted the proffered protection, and were taken to a fort in the Khurd Kabul, and eventually they heard that the force with which they had quitted Kabul had been annihilated.
Whiles, he proffered soothing music: over and over he repeated the chant, though with variations; encountering in turn his brother, his daughter, each of his parents, his uncle, his cousin, and his second-cousin, one after the other ascending the same slope with the same perilous leisure. "Lay still, honey." He interrupted his injunctions to the second-cousin.
As they seated themselves at table Brahms, who had been in a brown study, suddenly proffered the company an extemporaneous criticism of Ivan's music, which he tore into miscroscopic bits, and flung upon the winds of sarcasm; after which he perorated elaborately upon his own power and the perfect academic accuracy of his style. When he had reached his final period, the silence was awe-inspiring.
Still, with the same joyous self-contained air she settled herself in Fred's proffered chair, picked up one of Jack's brushes, reached over his shoulder, and with a "please-hold-still, thank you," scooped up a little yellow ochre from his palette, and unloaded it on a corner of a tile.
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