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She certainly, among her acquaintance, did quiz the new Cabinet minister not a little, and it may be a question whether she was not as hard upon him as the writer in the Jupiter. She whispered a great deal to Miss Dunstable about new blood, and talked of going down to Westminster Bridge to see whether the Thames were really on fire.
We used to take our little evening walks together through the coffee plantation: very romantic little strolls they were, she in white muslin with a blue sash and blue shoes; I in a flannel jacket and trousers, straw hat and cravat, a Virginia cigar as long as a walking-stick in my mouth, puffing and courting between times; then we'd take a turn to the refining-house, look in at the big boilers, quiz the niggers, and come back to Twangberry Moss to supper, where old Hackett, the father, sported a glorious table at eleven o'clock.
Contestants who were expert on a particular category returned week after week on their build-up to a grand prize, which was a quarter of a million dollars. This quiz, however, had elements that the younger Brants liked. In the first place, the contestants were ordinary people. The producer didn't seem to go in for odd characters as other programs did.
"Let us go somewhere where we can quiz the natives without being too near them." Lady Bar. "I am tired of this unbroken solitude, I must go and think to the sea," added she, in a mock soliloquy; and out she glided with the same unconscious air as his lordship had worn. The others moved off slowly together. "Mamma," said Miss Vere, "I can't understand half Barbara Sinclair says."
So, now that they were in public, they all shook hands very formally: Tug with a girl several years older than he; Pretty with the beautiful Enid; Quiz with the fickle Cecily Brown; bashful Bobbles with the bouncing Betsy; B.J. with a girl who had as many freckles as B.J. had had imaginary encounters with the bandits who had tried to steal her; the unwilling Sleepy with a lively young woman who broke his heart by congratulating him on being able to go to Kingston; tiny Jumbo with plump Carrie Shields, whom he had once fished out of the water; and Reddy with the girl over whom he and his brother had had their bitterest quarrels, and who could not for the life of her tell which one she liked the better.
He lost no time in deciding that supper, after all, was a rather useless invention, and Kingston much preferable. Previously to this, Quiz had always understood that the dog was the most kind-hearted of animals, but it was months after that night before he could hear the mere name of a canine without shuddering.
The local descriptions of Sir Morton Pippitt do not tempt me to make his acquaintance, and as for the parson I met just now,-why he would be impossible! simply impossible!" she repeated with emphasis " I can see exactly what he's like at a glance. One of those cold, quiet, clever men who 'quiz' women and never admire them, I know the kind of horrid University creature!
Grant, I hope? for if she did she'd never let me hear the last of it." "No; only our father, who was chasing you at the time," replied Kate, with a merry laugh. "And no one else?" "No oh yes, by-the-by, Tom Whyte was there too." "Oh, he's nobody. Go on." "But tell me, Charley, why do you care about Mrs. Grant seeing you?" "Oh! no reason at all, only she's such an abominable quiz."
First, there was Mr Seco, a very neat gentlemanlike little man, perfectly well bred, and full of French phrases. Then came Mr Eschylus Stave, a tall, raw boned, well informed personage; a bit of a quiz on occasion, but withal a pleasant fellow.
I am here only with definite instructions in case you succeed in overhauling that white sloop.” “What—” began Eph. Then he paused, with a half-grin. “Really,” he added, “I ought to know better than to quiz you about your instructions from your superior officer.” “Yes, sir,” assented the midshipman, simply. Eph turned on the current to the search-light, swinging the ray about the bay.
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