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After a pause, apparently to allow the editor to materialize this ravishing description, he said, gently, "Are you busy just now?" "Not very. What can I do for you?" "Well, not much for ME, I reckon," he returned, with a deeper respiration, that was his nearest approach to a sigh, "but suthin' perhaps for yourself and another. Are you married?" "No," said the editor, promptly.
Dickens promised: "manfully, promptly, and plainly in my own person, to bear for the behalf of my own countrymen such testimony of the gigantic changes in this country as I have hinted at here tonight.
He entered the tunnel first, with Hamilton next, and was promptly followed by the whole party through the tunnel and into the yard. He opened the gate leading toward the canal, and signaled the party that all was clear. Stepping out on the sidewalk as soon as the nearest sentinel's back was turned, he walked briskly down the street to the east, and a square below was joined by Hamilton.
A clear-seeing and controlling mind was just what Doctor Hillhouse needed at that moment. He saw the value of Doctor Kline's suggestion, and promptly accepted it. Doctor Angier was despatched to the residence of Mr. Carlton to advise that gentleman of the brief delay and to make needed preparations for the work that was to be done.
The rector was full of interest and concern as he stepped into the room, and when Hannah apologized for sending for him on such a night, he answered promptly: "Not at all, not at all. If I can be of any comfort to you or your father, I should be very sorry not to come. How is he?"
Of course she has exported all she could to England; but, at that, she has been handicapped." "How?" "Because when a ship sails from Liverpool with goods for Australia, it is a rare case when that same ship promptly loads with Australian goods and puts back to Liverpool.
He does not so promptly obey his mother, and of course he cannot be so happy. Sometimes he pouts out his lips, when his mother wishes him to do something which he does not exactly like. I one day heard his mother talking to him about his teeth. She wished him to brush them again, as he had not done it thoroughly the first time.
After that the deluge!" quoted Mr. Dutton, with an attempt at lightness which did not agree with his real depression. Margot made heroic efforts to act as usual but they ended in failure, and as soon as might be her guardian pushed back his chair and she promptly did the same. "Now I can ask as many questions as I please, can't I? First, where are they?"
The ringing of his door-bell caused him to start expectantly, and a moment later a maid entered to say that a man and a woman wished to see him. "Show them in!" said the judge. And Mr. Shrimplin with all that modesty of demeanor which one of his sensitive nature might be expected to feel in the presence of greatness, promptly insinuated himself into the room.
"It's a great risk," observed a second. "Ten yeahs," said a third. "You're takin' big chances, Mr. Bennet," said another. "He'll die in five, and you'll have to bury him." "I withdraw the bid," said Mr. Bennet promptly. "Two yeahs," said another. The colonel was boiling over with indignation.
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