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It was the only thing in your place that did not interest me when I first walked in. "I paused, and Ombos prompted me half unconsciously: 'Yes? "'Now! I said, meeting his eyes misting my own in doing so, 'it is the only thing I should like to see. "'Ah! he said.... 'Well, I told you that he might come over you slowly; but the gods direct rightly whom they will.
"Have you a vase?" Mrs. Mortimer asked dubiously. Mrs. Emery rose to the occasion. "The Japanese umbrella stand." There was a pause as they reverently arranged the great sheaf of enormous flowers. Then Mrs. Emery began, "Marietta " She hesitated. "Well," Mrs. Mortimer prompted her, a little impatiently. "Do you really think that he that Lydia ?"
But there is one thing that has more positive spring in it than any of these more of the stir and throb of awakening, something identified with that earliest impulse that prompted some remote ancestor to make the first garden. I mean the smell of freshly turned earth with the sun on it. Nothing else is like that; there is a kind of madness in it. Elizabeth said it was a poem.
He had suspected her intention all along, and surmised that her offer was prompted partly by good-nature and partly by a recognition of the fact that the presence of a young woman of considerable wealth, who was beautiful as well as otherwise gifted, would increase the popularity of the receptions over which she was fond of presiding.
I am not," Sir Richard continued, "a good-natured man, but some devilish impulse prompted me to help that fellow. I gave him money three or four times. Somehow, I don't think it's a very good thing to give a man money. He doesn't value it it comes too easily. He spends it and wants more." "There's a good deal of truth in what you say, Sir Richard," Peter Ruff admitted.
This action was prompted in part by doubts which mature reflection had suggested whether the diplomatic usage and traditions of the Government did not make it fitting that the Executive should consult the representatives of the people before pursuing a line of policy somewhat novel in its character and far reaching in its possible consequences.
But nowhere in the animal world does the psychical overstep the limits of purely natural existence, of striving after and being prompted by the directly and purely natural ends of a vegetative and animal instinctive life, physical pleasure, self-preservation, and the maintenance of the species. And there is more than this.
"We don't know anything about it, but that is no reason why we should sit back and twiddle our thumbs and start at shadows." "Well, for goodness' sake, tell us what's on your mind," prompted Grace impatiently. "We haven't sat back and twiddled our thumbs and started at shadows because we enjoyed it, you know."
Meantime the gang did not yet approach, and he was almost prompted to resume his original intention of attempting an escape from the hut, and cursed internally his own irresolution, which had consented to his being cooped up where he had neither room for resistance nor flight. Meg Merrilies seemed equally on the watch. She bent her ear to every sound that whistled round the old walls.
Arthur would have shunned him, as his new resolutions and good genius prompted him to do; but there was that graceful form half-bent for his greeting, there was that smiling face, looking its hearty "How are you?" there was the social yet searching glance of that glittering eye, all saying, "Shake hands with me," and Arthur did. "Mr. Clinton, how do you do?"
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