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Buford was schooled enough to be more just in his estimate, and he saw the reasonableness of what his new acquaintance had said. Unconsciously his eye wandered over to the portly form of the negress, who sat fanning herself, a little apart from the others. He smiled again with the quizzical look on his face. "How about that, Aunt Lucy?" he said.
Upon the bank of some river, or lake, perhaps, where the people of the wilderness may come and receive that which is theirs of right " "Theirs of right?" The man looked into her face, and Chloe saw that the thin lips again smiled this time with a quizzical smile that hinted at tolerant amusement. The smile stung. "Yes, theirs of right!" she flashed.
"Well, I will," conceded Joyce, not very hopefully, however. "I'll lead Father round to talking of her this evening, if I can, and see what comes of it." Joyce was as good as her word. "Do you know any real elderly people, Father?" He looked up with a quizzical expression. "Well, a few. Most people do, don't they? What do you inquire for, Duckie?
Presently I drew my chin down to my shoulder, and let myself drift out of painful consciousness almost as easily as a sort of woman can call up tears at will. When I waked again, it was without a start or moving, without confusion, and I was bitterly hungry. Beside my couch, with his hands on his hips and his feet thrust out, stood Gabord, looking down at me in a quizzical and unsatisfied way.
There was so much to say that he could not speak. She broke the spell. "I am here. Can't you see me?" she asked in a quizzical, playful tone, her lips trembling a little, but with a smile in her eyes which she vainly tried to veil. She had said the one thing which above all others could have lifted the situation to its real significance.
Smith looked quizzical and "guessed" that plays and play-actin' were useless, if not actually immoral. "Yes, but this isn't just plays, my young friend," said Carl, with a hauteur new but not exceedingly impressive to Plain Smith. "He takes up all these new stunts, all this new philosophy and stuff they have in London and Paris.
They were red as to their faces, and embarrassed as to manner, and Good Indian went away hurriedly after the horses, without meeting the quizzical glances of the boys, or replying t to certain pointed remarks which they fired after him. "And he's the buckaroo that's got no use for girls!" commented Wally, looking after him, and ran his tongue meditatively along the loose edge of his cigarette.
You haven't been on the ground like I have. If you want a plain word for it, Uncle Newt " "Speak right out in meetin', Tom. Shouldn't wonder but what I can stand it." The transplanted Yankee slanted at his nephew a quizzical smile. "I been hearin' more or less plain language for quite a spell, son." Tom gave it to him straight from the shoulder, quietly but without apology.
You observe we have but one between us, and it makes it rather dangerous, as none of us are very skillful in the use of the rifle." "You needn't take the trouble to tell us that," replied Ned, with a quizzical look.
We can invite a lot of people up from the City and over from Bolivar and Hillsboro and Providence to hear you tell them all about Tennessee while things are cooking and " "This rally is to show off Glendale not the Crag," he interrupted me with a quizzical laugh. Now, how did he know I called him the Crag in my heart? I suppose I did it to his face and never knew.
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