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"Did you see anything else?" was her first whispered greeting. But Leslie shook her head. "There wasn't another thing happened. I watched nearly all night till I fell asleep at the window, in fact!" "Well, something happened at some time or other!" replied Phyllis, provocatively. "How do you know?" demanded Leslie, in a twitter. "I've seen the sign of it. Come outside and I'll show you!"
Her eyes were large, dark, and expressive; and she constantly used them most provocatively, though with every appearance of shyness and modesty. Her figure, too, was lithe and rounded; and so swathed, rather than clothed, that every curve was emphasized.
You do really have to pay attention on this path, or you miss your footing and toboggan all at once." "Then, suppose," he persisted, "we just consider that I have apologized. And if you accept, you can raise your right hand at me." Kit immediately raised her left one, and waggled it provocatively over her shoulder. Before he could say any more, she had hurried ahead and caught up with the rest.
Some of them broke at once into loud talk and laughter, as though in reaction from the confinement and tension of their work, some quite silent turned their tired faces to him as they passed him; and some looked boldly, provocatively at the handsome man, who on his side was clearly observing them.
"Well, you asked me." "Would you answer as plainly whatever I asked you?" "Certainly. I'd have too much respect for you not to." She opened wide eyes at this. Then provocatively: "What do you think of me, Mr. Banneker?" "I can't answer that." "Why not?" she teased. "I don't know you well enough to give an opinion." "You know me as well as you ever will." "Very likely."
Stoner and McWade exchanged a meaning glance it was not lost upon their attentive audience but the latter shrugged and smiled provocatively. "That's our business," he declared, lightly. "You ghost dancers want your money back and we're giving it to you. You're letting up a holler that you were robbed, so come and get it. The faster you come the better it'll suit us.
"Don't say 'Innocent' in that reproachful way! It makes me feel quite guilty! Now, if you talk of names, THERE'S a name to give a poor girl, Innocent! Nobody ever heard of such a name " "You're wrong. "Dear me!" And her eyes flashed provocatively. "You astound me with your wisdom, Robin! But all the same, I don't believe any girl ever had such a name as Innocent, in spite of thirteen Popes.
'She might want me, Henrietta replied provocatively, and for answer Rose's smile flickered disconcertingly across the candle-light, and her voice, a little worn, said quietly, 'Then go and see. The bedroom had a dreadful neatness; it smelt of disinfectant, furniture polish and soap, and Sophia, from the big armchair, said mournfully, 'They might have left it as it was.
Say, wouldn't you feel crazy? Wouldn't you feel you wanted to take it all in your arms, and, and just love it to death?" "Maybe for a while." The girl's eyes were smiling provocatively. She loved to hear him talk. The strong rich tones of his voice in the quiet of the woodland gave her a sense of possession of him. She went on.
She wrote to him frequently short, airy epistles, wholly inconsequent, often provocatively meagre. "There is a Captain Silvester here," she wrote once; "such a bounder. But he is literally the only man who can dance in the station. So what would you? Poor Mrs. Feathery hints of this description were by no means unusual, but though Merryon sometimes frowned over them, they did not make him uneasy.
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