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He was disappointed, for she came from the wide veranda as he rode up and greeted him. "Won't you come in?" she asked. "I guess not. I'd like to see your father." She knew that her father had forbidden Corliss the house, and, indeed, the premises. She wondered what urgency brought him to the rancho. "I'll call him, then." Corliss answered the grave questioning in her eyes briefly.
Finally Neewa lay still, and Miki sat down close beside him and eyed his master with serious questioning if not actual disapprobation. The gray sky was breaking with the promise of the sun when Challoner was ready to renew his long journey into the southland. He packed his canoe, leaving Neewa and Miki until the last.
Nothing that can surprise me, I assure you he was always an erratic individual, and " "He paid reg'ler," interrupted Mrs. Hableton, pursing up her lips. "A most enviable reputation to possess," answered the other with a sneer, "and one I'm afraid I'll never enjoy. But why all this questioning about Whyte? What's the matter with him?" "He's dead!" said Gorby, abruptly.
It lay before that bristling veteran who turned a questioning glance to Her Grace of Schallberg. "I have seen it," she said. "Is it is it the missing star?" he asked in a hesitating manner, as though an affirmative answer was more than he could hope for. "It is," she replied with slightly inclining head.
He bent over her, as if on the edge of an abyss of questioning: "Do you know what we are?" he murmured. "Everything we say, everything we think, everything we believe, is fictitious. We know nothing. Nothing is sure or solid." "You are wrong," she cried. "There /is/ something absolute, our sorrow, our need, our misery. We can see and touch it.
Towards the end of the year 1620, on the eve of a probable meeting of Parliament, there was great questioning about what was to be done about certain patents and monopolies monopolies for making gold and silk thread, and for licensing inns and ale-houses which were in the hands of Buckingham's brothers and their agents.
A dead beetle in the road, a fly caught in a spider's web, a young robin water-soaked and bedraggled, appalled him, even as a boy, and he pondered them with sad and questioning eyes long after his young companions had forgotten them. Where had the light of their eyes fled? he asked himself.
Many men, I suppose, in my position would have trampled on their doubts would have regarded them as sin in themselves, would have felt it their duty to ignore them as much as possible, trusting to time and God's help. I could not ignore them. The thought of questioning the most sacred beliefs that you and I' and his voice faltered a moment 'held in common was misery to me.
Anxiously did Ruth Dotropy await the return of Captain Bream to Yarmouth, and patiently did she refrain, in the meantime, from questioning Mrs Bright as to her history before marriage, for that good woman's objection to be so questioned was quite sufficient to check her sensitive spirit.
The neighbours could tell me little, till I lighted on a poor woman who acted as nurse in these perilous times. She told me that all the family were dead, except Merrival himself, who had gone mad mad, she called it, yet on questioning her further, it appeared that he was possessed only by the delirium of excessive grief.
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